1) If everyone knows that people go there to kill themselves, why hasn't the entrance been closed?

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IMDB_Vits — 9 years ago(May 16, 2016 02:01 PM)

1. If everyone knows that people go there to kill themselves, why hasn't the entrance been closed?
2. The student thought that
   SARA
   was
   JESS
   turned into an angry ghost. Can those ghosts leave the forest? That would mean that
   MICHI
   really was attacked by
   SARA
   at the end (it wasn't very clear). However, that wouldn't explain why she went after a guy who wasn't "sad" (as he had said).

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Ijkkkjq — 9 years ago(May 17, 2016 03:42 PM)

Being 35km you could enter from anywhere. Wouldn't need an entrance
Next question, I've never heard of spirits leaving, just haunting the forest.

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IMDB_Vits — 9 years ago(May 20, 2016 07:28 PM)

I read that the movie wasn't entirely filmed in
Ja
p
an
, so maybe it's different in real life. The movie makes it look like everybody just accepts the suicides.

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inuimari — 9 years ago(June 05, 2016 06:29 PM)

Hey, Japanese guy here.
You might wanna check the VICE doco if you want more info on this topic.
As for 2) It's just a cliche horror ending. The ending would have been 10000 times better if Michi just leaves after seeing ghost Sarah but I guess the director/producer/writer's vision sucked. Plus, ghosts in any culture cannot move around that much.

1. It's like Golden Gate Bridge. You can't just get rid of a place like that. We're talking about an entire forest at the base of Mt. Fuji. There are many "popular" suicide spots in other countries and they usually have signs with lifeline phone numbers.

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nepentheberyl — 9 years ago(July 20, 2016 04:18 AM)

whether you destroyed it or managed to put a huge guarded fence around it, it woulnt prevent suicides, people would just find another suitable spot to do it in or find a way in.

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titanman083 — 9 years ago(September 20, 2016 07:06 AM)

Oh dang, looks like the forest is closed. I guess I'll just continue suffering in my useless existence.

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reaseltbim — 9 years ago(November 21, 2016 12:58 PM)

the student was just a dumb teenager. ghosts probably cannot leave the forest, she just got super scared

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Unicorn_Blade — 9 years ago(December 11, 2016 06:26 AM)

The factthet people go to kill hrmselves over there does not mean EVERYONE kills themselves when thry go to the forest. It was (as even stated in the movie) a popular tourist attraction, so as long as people were careful not to get lost, things should be OK, and if anyone will want to commit suicide, they will do it anyway, forest or not.
2- students were scared as they were certain their teacher was dead, and they thought she turned up, and they could not rationalise it up until they wwere told it was a twin. That I thought was quite clear, not sure where your confusion comes from.
In the beginning there was nothing, and it exploded.