EVIL DOES NOT EXIST

Odd-job man Takumi (a wonderful performance by non-professional actor Hitoshi Omika) is raising his small daughter in a village surrounded by forest, where he collects spring water for communal use. When developers move in, looking to make the forest a destination for Tokyo weekend glampers, Takumi sees that their corner-cutting plans will mean the forest’s pure water will soon be poisoned with sewage – and that the money men don’t care. The stage seems set for a confrontation until nature herself intervenes, one that lies beyond human society’s ideas of good and evil. This twisting story asks hard questions about our relationship with nature and the animal in all of us.