2014 · comedy · drama · rural
Wood Job!
Directed by Shinobu Yaguchi1h 56m2014
After failing his university entrance exam, Yuki Hirano sets his eyes on the role of a forestry trainee. Setting off for training he doubts his decision many times, but eventually after passing the training course, he is sent to Kamusari Village for a year of work experience - where he becomes assimilated with the beauty of nature and the warm-hearted people of the village.
Our read: Wood Job! (2014) reads as a cosy, kinetic, grounded comedy · drama · rural entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, kinetic, gentle comedy / drama, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
- cosy
- brisk
- redemptive
- tender
- intimate
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