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Wood Job!

Original title: Wood Job!: Kamusari nânâ nichijô
  • 20142014
  • 1h 56m
IMDb RATING
7.5/10
3.3K
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Wood Job! (2014)
  • Adventure
  • Comedy
After failing to get into university, a soft city boy randomly picks a job in forestry.After failing to get into university, a soft city boy randomly picks a job in forestry.After failing to get into university, a soft city boy randomly picks a job in forestry.
IMDb RATING
7.5/10
3.3K
YOUR RATING
  • Director
    • Shinobu Yaguchi
  • Writers
    • Shiwon Miura(based on the novel by)
    • Shinobu Yaguchi(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Hideaki Itô
    • Masami Nagasawa
    • Shôta Sometani
Top credits
  • Director
    • Shinobu Yaguchi
  • Writers
    • Shiwon Miura(based on the novel by)
    • Shinobu Yaguchi(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Hideaki Itô
    • Masami Nagasawa
    • Shôta Sometani
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 9User reviews
    • 9Critic reviews
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    • Awards
      • 3 wins & 2 nominations

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    Masami Nagasawa in Wood Job! (2014)
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    Top cast

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    Hideaki Itô
    Hideaki Itô
    • Yoki Iida
    Masami Nagasawa
    Masami Nagasawa
    • Naoki Ishii
    Shôta Sometani
    Shôta Sometani
    • Yuki Hirano
    Yûki Furukawa
    Yûki Furukawa
    • Shoji Hasegawa
    Nana Seino
    Nana Seino
    • Reina Takahashi
    Mao Asou
    Mao Asou
      Akira Emoto
      • Toshiro Yamane
      Yôji Tanaka
      • Instructor B
      • (as Yoji Tanaka)
      Naomi Nishida
      • Yuko Nakamura
      Ken Mitsuishi
      • Seiichi Nakamura
      Yûka
      • Miki Iida
      Ken Aoki
      • Chikara Naito
      Shunpei Kawagoishi
      • Shimizu
      Yoshimasa Kondô
      • Forestry Association Director
      Makita Sports
      • Iwao Tanabe
      Daikichi Sugawara
      Daikichi Sugawara
      • Yuki Hirano's Dad
      Yuriko Hirooka
      • Yuki Hirano's Mom
      Masashi Arifuku
      • Saburo Oyama
      • Director
        • Shinobu Yaguchi
      • Writers
        • Shiwon Miura(based on the novel by)
        • Shinobu Yaguchi(screenplay)
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        After the credits at the end of the film there is a shot of the new brochure for the trainee job with Yuki on the cover instead of Naoki.

      User reviews9

      Review
      Top review
      8/10
      Oddly emotional and affecting
      Okay, so I was ready to watch a comedy by master Shinobu Yaguchi, famous for his amazing Swing Girls movie but instead I got a sort of coming-of-age feel-good movie about finding one's own roots.

      Don't get me wrong, there are fun and silly moments throughout the movie with fun characters- as is usual in a Shinobu Yaguchi movie but this time the tone is a bit more realistic that gives way for emotional and affecting moments to take the center stage in this movie.

      The plot is quite simple, a scoundrel city boy decides to work and train in forestry on a whim (decided by his attraction to a girl on a poster, very silly!) and the movie is set around this whole training year where he learns a lot of life lessons including Japanese folklore and the beauty of working for nature.

      The movie is shot beautifully, the nature shots stand out the most obviously- I wish this movie would've been made around the beginning of the 00s for that gorgeous scrappy feeling that his older movies have but otherwise it's great!

      The actors are fun and play both seriously and comedically with the standout being ruggedly handsome Hideaki Ito as Yoki- however the characters aren't very well-developed that's one of the negatives, a few sub-plots involving the villagers don't get resolved and the movie has a bit of a fakeout during the beginning where we get introduced to Yukis (the main character) classmates only for them to appear at the tail-end of the movie.

      A bit of a negative is that it's perhaps a bit too long? It could've used for more efficient storytelling as in his past movies but otherwise it's good- the 1hr 56 mins of runtime still passed by without a hitch!

      More than the surrounding plot I find the depictions of Japanese myth and traditions to be really emotional in this movie- it definitely ties it together in a wonderful kind of way.

      I'd say this is not his best movie but it's definitely worth a watch- even if the elements of his older movies aren't quite present you can still find something great about his newer films! Check it out!
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      Details

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      • Release date
        • May 10, 2014 (Japan)
      • Country of origin
        • Japan
      • Language
        • Japanese
      • Also known as
        • Wood Job!: The Easy Life in Kamusari
      • Filming locations
        • Tokyo, Japan
      • Production companies
        • Asahi Shimbun
        • Chubu-nippon Broadcasting Company (CBC)
        • Chugoku Broadcasting (RCC)
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      Box office

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      • Gross worldwide
        • $5,540,404
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      • Runtime
        1 hour 56 minutes
      • Color
        • Color

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