reminds me of Dante's Inferno The Suicide Woods...... i first saw this on ancient aliens today on the history channel and the location interested me....not for the purpose of suicide but maybe a very tranquil place to meditate and think of all the poor souls who thought they had nothing else left for them in the world and figure why they would kill themselves.... if its like how ancient aliens dipicted it, it wouldnt seem too bad to transend to a higher existence??? very interesting!!!!!
why would u pick up that book or zoom in on that skull?... to me its very rude leave them in peace... not all people want to be found... pray for those bodies u found, hope for there family.. hope that there happy now.. then carry on ur walk!
The Yakuza pays homeless ppl and addicts to go into the forest and collect ppls wallets for the money and IDs for illegal Immigration. They look for clothing watches, rings, and other jewelry.They have started to take skulls to sell on the blackmarket. Real human skulls go for $5-10,000 depending on the quality and who buys them. Amature ghost hunters illegaly take ppl on tours.Yakuza will start taking ppl into the woods on fake ghost tours then killing them, leaving their bodies with the rest!
Well.. its nice to know that if I ever kill myself, or just plain die in the bush. That some rich banker, or some morbid tourists will get a kick out of it.
"If you want to take your life your not normal," Ok the reason some people want to take their lives is people like you, people who dont understand. They think they know everything there is to know about a person because of one fact. And what is normal anyway? Normal is trying to fit in and if you dont then you are hated. It is like a never ending cycle.
It ain't no cherry blossoms and sugoi....Japan is a hell hole in many ways, as many countries are hell holes...and I bet bunch of closed minded anime freaks don't care, because they probably believe they are turning Japanese and being Japanese is SO COOL.....I wouldn't mind visiting that forest though....cool looking forest.
"you're not normal if you want to commit suicide" That pissed me off. There is no difference between mental pain and physical pain. They just hurt in different ways.
@MsNatakins Yeah I hear ya. Theres another video with a Geologist, the guy has to go out and find the bodies, he had much more respect for the people they were then these guys do. Reminds me of the people that park beside accident scenes to see the blood and gore, idiots...
See they seem to think its a joke till they find a corpse then they realise their idiots. Its a horrible thing for people to go through. "Hey look a rope its so fucking funny." Japanese people find that scary cos' they know the reality of it. What has weebs gotta do with a suicide hot spots? If your a happy easy going person Japan is a great place if not better in your opinion, just respect the people.
I think the intention of doing this documentary was good and to be informative,
but those guys could have done more research before they actually went and filmed everything,
I mean first calling those things props and then not knowing what the tape was for, and the thing that was disturbing was seeing how one of them hanged on from a rope,
I think the "Aokigahara- Suicide Forest" was more informative, because the man they interviewed answered a lot of questions that they didn't here
Seriously the tape is left by people who are not sure if they want to kill themselves so they can find their way back out, usually at the end of the rope you either find a body or evidence of someone being there. You just walked by all those trails of tape because you didn't know what they were for, this is where research comes in....
@IncidentalShine son you clearly just watched the other two-part docu on the forest so don't act like you're so damn smart you just basically quoted word for word what the Japanese man said.
@IzaFaqat I genetically can't be anyone's son, mate. Recalling this comment that I wrote six months ago I somewhat remember I was not quoting any part of the film but responding to the reaction of the documentary maker If I recall correctly. My field of work does involve research and tactics of documentary making so I do not feel in any way like my comment was out of line. Also citation does not equate to intelligence but this is not relevant here. Thanks for you comment.
@IncidentalShine Not knowing colloquialisms is not something that makes you intelligent, so why don't you keep semantics out of it. What bothers me is how arrogantly you insult them for in your mind "not doing research" when I'm sure when they set out to do this they didn't have access to sit on their asses and watch another documentary on it (which may or may not have even been filmed). Take your wannabe elitism elsewhere. It's sad to see someone try to be intelligent.
@IzaFaqat "son you clearly just..." I am fully aware of the use of the word son, mate. And you have a problem with my comment? Poor you. I in no way insulted you, someone just isn't intelligent or not but everyone is in possession of certain strengths some have gotten me far in an academic sense but that is not of relevance so I don't see it as a valid way of attacking me for a comment. I did not say they didn't do research I spotted a point where certain research would help and others agreed.
@IncidentalShine Honestly you're going to get into technicalities? Bitching about what the tape was for, and then saying "this is where research comes in...." would imply you've opined they did not do research. It's just sad how you put people down because you sat on your ass and watched a different 20 minute documentary before this. Get a life bitch.
@IzaFaqat Bitching about someone else's comment is so tangential, I seem to have aggravated you; excellent. You disagree with someone on the internet? congratulations, why don't you come from a disadvantaged background then go get yourself BA hons, masters and go for a phd while you're at it and then call people unintelligent and bitches and it might hold some weight, mate.
@IncidentalShine Oh my god she doesn't shut up, it's painful to watch you evade everything I saw in an attempt to be (a) intelligent and (b) witty, using every big boy work you can think of, and now I see you're on the cusp of "u mad lolcats" - I state once more, the only reason you could say what you said is because you've sad upon your fatass, watching a different doc. and then you think that gives you the right to tell people to research like you're a Harvard professor.
this is the first time I heard somebody saying it looks like a prop and then you see an actual real suicide site. I have watched another film where they said that interaction between people is a all-time low. I think people have a hard time trying to find other people that think they need interaction with other people. I know when I was young I tried several suicide attempts and never went through with it I just found determination not to bow down to society.
i want every single weeaboo to see this so that next time they'll think twice before saying OH GEE I WANT TO MOVE TO JAPAN BECAUSE IT'S SO MUCH BETTER THAN MY HOME COUNTRY AND IT'S VERY SUGOI. No, it's fucking not. it's just another country that has it's own problems like everyone else.
@rainbowIchigo Its true, I always thought "man, Japan looks like such a nice place, so quiet and peaceful, people have so much respect and dignity" and tho that all may be true, its still a country, full of people, with similar problems to everyone else.
3:18 well yeah! the Jukai is littered with copies of that very book. It's a manual of suicide. Someone very likely died just where you found it and the body was later found and taken away.
is it true that if u get off the track and loose it u get lost? and might not come out of the forest? coz i read about it from another site and that got me quite interested. but when u showed the whole forest in the begining it didnt really look so big, and that u can actually have enaugh time to get out :/ confuuuseeeeed
This documentry is real, i just hate the author who made a book about how to kill yourself, i dont know who the hell got that book published, but apart from that its intresting documentery, and its sad as well to see how mayne people go there to kill themselves
Fucking capitalism... they have not a psychologist problem, they have educational and moral problems. Fuck money... why they don't buy the book: How to build a home for 15 dollars or more. ? Money is the biggest lie in the world.
Thanks for this, odd looking forest - almost primordial.
I couldnt see the bodies very well but the skull looked like a prop - not the skull itself but the way it was hanging...
how deep were you into the forest?
it says on wiki that after more than half a mile the paths are less used and dissapear and no searches are carried out past that point....i bet there are bodies that have bee there for years.... Also it would be intresting to see the forest in its "pristine condition".
this is interesting. I wish people realized that it isn't just Japan where life is getting expensive. This is the case for most people in OECD countries. The problem arises I think within modern Japanese culture. Its incompatible with helping people deal with the challenges of modern life. They lack certain institutions that allows one to release their stress. I also find that when they do find something to do its to an extreme. The culture has to change. I doubt it will happen.
I just didnt like it the last part where japanese people were talking about how their lives are depressing in Japan. I myself as a japanese i dont wanna stereotype my culture that way...
The T U R E reason Japanese people become an ECONOMIC ANIMAL is that Japanese is forced to buy the U.S. Treasury bonds, GSE and various FRAUD financial products created by the wall street for several trillion to create bubble and to support American economy. 凸(`ε´●) SEARCH it in this word and CHECK ＴＨＥ FACT !! ▼▼ Major Foreign Holders of US Treasury Securities ▼▼But this shows only "short term treasury". Japanese people support themselves, their family, and Americans !!
Was there 2 times with my old unit. We did training in there and at the time I had no knowledge if the place. It is very very easy to get lost in there. If we did not have radios and vehicles honking I am sure we would have been lost for quite some time. I remember it was cloudy while we were there both times in the winter and when you walk through the canopy of trees makes it very dark even during the day. I had the strangest feeling walking through there so when I got back to camp I googled it
At 17 seconds the white mist or figure which looks more like a figure, it's too fast to be someone or the guide to walk that fast and then vanishes if it were to be the guide or some else they would be moving slower trying to get over branches, rocks and holes so they don't fall so how would they move that fast? so many people have died out there it is a 80% chance that it was a spirit. P.S if you look closely it has a transparent look to it.
i have seen some very disturbing real pictures of hanging rotting corpses from the trees on the internet it shows people just hung there lifeless some people hang themsellves inreally odd positions its horrible aswell that there were some pics with really badly decayed bodies even bones where the corpses have lain there for so lond and the dirty clothese surrounding them the harsh realities of life are so sad
they can't tale the criticism of other people specially when it comes to losing a job. The forest looks awesome and dead bodies add the awesomness. pretty scary tho
Something looks weird starting at :17 seconds. As the camera pans, a white something seems to be moving very fast. It looks like it's behind the trees, so I don't think it's a reflection. Anyone else see it?
This is extremely fascinating. Thank you so much for posting this documentary, it is a rare look into the social, almost global taboo of committing suicide.
well I think it is sad that people can feel so down they want to die, but we're all capable of end our lives its about you as a person and how far your willing to sink before getting help or ending it all. Of course some are mentally ill but sometimes life just gets so dark and unbarable and lonely that its bound to cross everyones mind at least once in life, its not healthy but its part of the human condition I suppose...lonliness is the worst.
If we're talking about the man dressed in white, who's in the background in the first film, for a couple of seconds, it's the husband of Fumie, our lovely guide. It's probably him walking by behind the trees. Sorry for de-mystifying.....
@Fnoalle You mean the figure in white with a speed of someone in a marathon sprint? The man must be in great shape. It just seems to move way too fast for a normal walk.
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I think it's curious how those guys find a "suicide manual" like that in the forest. In plus the book seems like brand new. For christ sake. Dumbest and fakest documentary I ever saw. Those two guys should hang themselves in order to regain their honor!
This is a real documentary, and everything you see is true. I tried hard throughout the production and editing not to "lie". Meaning that I didn't even want to cut together an establishing shot of a building's façade with an interior, if it wasn't the same building. We did find the book on the ground, just like that. It could have been a "new" copy, although it was totally ruined by the damp and the dirt. I still have it.
no one collect bodies? why not just seal the forest... it seems to me Japanese gov is supporting this for local attraction... life is stressful sometimes, but does not mean it won't get better.
@Remittee well see in Japan your career is your life without it your less than dirt and they tend to work you ungodly hours and this is a persons everyday life, its not like in america were you lose a job you find a new one. If you lose your job (a career job not like a part time thing) people don't treat you the same as before. This causes people to resort to suicide quiet alot, and the government used to go looking for bodies and putting them in a newspaper (the number) but they stoped.
That's why it seems so emotionally sad to me. If I take a trip into the forest, I wouldn't be scared or creeped out. i would probably sympathize with the people who lost all hopes in life that they had to resort to ending their own lives. And I would appreciate and treasure my own life much more than before, knowing that my life isn't so terrible that I would think about killing myself.
It's also interesting that out of all species, only humans are capable of ending their own lives.
@devilhunterred I believe bee's once they sting something die shortly after wards. I may be wrong and I am sure the bee's do not know that if they sting something they will die but I just thought about bringing it up. I wouldn't be scared either, just interested in what is still there and a little sad for all the people.
They probably commit suicide from all that crappy anime they show on television over there. Its all guys with giant swords and spikey hair over there, fighting tentacles and crap. Its crap!
This has just shown how close-minded and dumb you are. Because this is a perfect world, anime is everything in Japan, and people do not have anything else to worry about, like jobs, family, money. Nope, they do not exist in Japan. 8D
Poor people...I read this japanese book wich describes more than one main characters dead by suicide (Murakami's Tokyo Blues) So I guess suicide is among your culture, right? That's sad
@lasfinismas, suicide is a part of all societies not just one, all over the world hundreds if not thousands of people commit suicide in a month, its not just one country.
If there was a body there why isn't it removed by the police or some kind of government agency, how can it be just left there until it's reduced to being a skeleton.
The police ought to look into it by law because it could also be the perfect place to dump a body, not necessarily a suicide place.
Appx 100 bodies are found every year. Of course, no one knows how many bodies are NOT found. The forest is large and dense. Most bodies are found by locals or visitors. The police don't search the forest often, for obvious reasons. When we had found the body, we called the police, who, as you correctly pointed out that they should, examined the place and the body as though it could have been a murder, disguised as a suicide.
@Fnoalle you say "The police don't search the forest often, for obvious reasons". What obvious reasons are these? I would have thought it would be a good idea for the police to search the forest often.
"Obvious reasons" meaning it is more economically to not waste police resources for constant mass searches of bodies when locals/visitors are statistically more likely and more efficient at finding them.
@Fnoalle amazing documentary! but it's too short. :) you should add subtitles for all those japanese speakers, it's hard to understand all their words... but you are gifted, thanks for your work, i loved it.
This area here is a small town with a limited budget. the burial costs alone for the unclaimed bodies wz going to bankrupt the town... that is the reason
the only good thing in those videos is that you can see a bit of the forest...those men are very morbid, so the only positif thing that they does, is that show us the forest... and abut theyr conversation about people who do sucide... they are no one to judje them all.. I would like to know wht they will do under a strong social pressure. To more ingnorance more blind suppositions.Nothig interesting in that vid. Speculations.
This is a fascinating documentary! I cant wait until you guys finish it. I do have one question however: Is this the only documentary about this forest? Because it seems like such an interesting subject and I cant see why its not a more popular topic.
I heard music from the Knife on this, and it's perfect for the forest. Impressing.
3Eva9393 1 month ago
suicide is fantasy. not a bad thing.
NippleOfNippon 3 months ago
Interesting, but I'm not impressed by these guys' lack of respect.
opheliablossom 4 months ago
reminds me of Dante's Inferno The Suicide Woods...... i first saw this on ancient aliens today on the history channel and the location interested me....not for the purpose of suicide but maybe a very tranquil place to meditate and think of all the poor souls who thought they had nothing else left for them in the world and figure why they would kill themselves.... if its like how ancient aliens dipicted it, it wouldnt seem too bad to transend to a higher existence??? very interesting!!!!!
csaylo 4 months ago
why would u pick up that book or zoom in on that skull?... to me its very rude leave them in peace... not all people want to be found... pray for those bodies u found, hope for there family.. hope that there happy now.. then carry on ur walk!
XxRibbonFlowAnimexX 5 months ago 4
i would not so easily touch the belongings of people who killed themselves for whatever reason specially the rope/
orochimaru0524 5 months ago 3
The Yakuza pays homeless ppl and addicts to go into the forest and collect ppls wallets for the money and IDs for illegal Immigration. They look for clothing watches, rings, and other jewelry.They have started to take skulls to sell on the blackmarket. Real human skulls go for $5-10,000 depending on the quality and who buys them. Amature ghost hunters illegaly take ppl on tours.Yakuza will start taking ppl into the woods on fake ghost tours then killing them, leaving their bodies with the rest!
ginko27 7 months ago
@ginko27 what a fucking stupid assessment
albeanmagz19 7 months ago
Well, if I was japanese and wanted to suicide, I would go there too...
PockyPuri 8 months ago
Well.. its nice to know that if I ever kill myself, or just plain die in the bush. That some rich banker, or some morbid tourists will get a kick out of it.
Cha4k 9 months ago 3
"If you want to take your life your not normal," Ok the reason some people want to take their lives is people like you, people who dont understand. They think they know everything there is to know about a person because of one fact. And what is normal anyway? Normal is trying to fit in and if you dont then you are hated. It is like a never ending cycle.
Fluteplayinghuru285 10 months ago 6
@Fluteplayinghuru285 I completely and 100% agree with you.
HollaaAtYourGirl 8 months ago
It ain't no cherry blossoms and sugoi....Japan is a hell hole in many ways, as many countries are hell holes...and I bet bunch of closed minded anime freaks don't care, because they probably believe they are turning Japanese and being Japanese is SO COOL.....I wouldn't mind visiting that forest though....cool looking forest.
MisterBokeh 10 months ago 2
"you're not normal if you want to commit suicide" That pissed me off. There is no difference between mental pain and physical pain. They just hurt in different ways.
KendarB 11 months ago 5
COOL YR GOT THE KNIFE ON!
tigerpantss 11 months ago
i hate how its just like a scavenger hunt to them. "oh look, a body! yay!'
MsNatakins 11 months ago 9
@MsNatakins Yeah I hear ya. Theres another video with a Geologist, the guy has to go out and find the bodies, he had much more respect for the people they were then these guys do. Reminds me of the people that park beside accident scenes to see the blood and gore, idiots...
DodgeMan360 7 months ago 3
See they seem to think its a joke till they find a corpse then they realise their idiots. Its a horrible thing for people to go through. "Hey look a rope its so fucking funny." Japanese people find that scary cos' they know the reality of it. What has weebs gotta do with a suicide hot spots? If your a happy easy going person Japan is a great place if not better in your opinion, just respect the people.
TheDeadOrchestra 11 months ago 6
Human is pretty....well....very complicated creature. Real life is way complex than tv drama.
Ucada 1 year ago
I think the intention of doing this documentary was good and to be informative,
but those guys could have done more research before they actually went and filmed everything,
I mean first calling those things props and then not knowing what the tape was for, and the thing that was disturbing was seeing how one of them hanged on from a rope,
I think the "Aokigahara- Suicide Forest" was more informative, because the man they interviewed answered a lot of questions that they didn't here
DaniiCullen 1 year ago 4
@DaniiCullen
I suspect they knew exactly what the tape was for and were just playing dumb to try get a response out of the lady who was guiding them.
Cha4k 9 months ago
sad
SS88TillDeath 1 year ago
The colored string in the forest shows were search parties have been and it's a way out
lamborghinimonster33 1 year ago
Seriously the tape is left by people who are not sure if they want to kill themselves so they can find their way back out, usually at the end of the rope you either find a body or evidence of someone being there. You just walked by all those trails of tape because you didn't know what they were for, this is where research comes in....
IncidentalShine 1 year ago 26
@IncidentalShine son you clearly just watched the other two-part docu on the forest so don't act like you're so damn smart you just basically quoted word for word what the Japanese man said.
IzaFaqat 6 months ago
@IzaFaqat I genetically can't be anyone's son, mate. Recalling this comment that I wrote six months ago I somewhat remember I was not quoting any part of the film but responding to the reaction of the documentary maker If I recall correctly. My field of work does involve research and tactics of documentary making so I do not feel in any way like my comment was out of line. Also citation does not equate to intelligence but this is not relevant here. Thanks for you comment.
IncidentalShine 6 months ago
@IncidentalShine Not knowing colloquialisms is not something that makes you intelligent, so why don't you keep semantics out of it. What bothers me is how arrogantly you insult them for in your mind "not doing research" when I'm sure when they set out to do this they didn't have access to sit on their asses and watch another documentary on it (which may or may not have even been filmed). Take your wannabe elitism elsewhere. It's sad to see someone try to be intelligent.
IzaFaqat 6 months ago
@IzaFaqat "son you clearly just..." I am fully aware of the use of the word son, mate. And you have a problem with my comment? Poor you. I in no way insulted you, someone just isn't intelligent or not but everyone is in possession of certain strengths some have gotten me far in an academic sense but that is not of relevance so I don't see it as a valid way of attacking me for a comment. I did not say they didn't do research I spotted a point where certain research would help and others agreed.
IncidentalShine 6 months ago
@IncidentalShine Honestly you're going to get into technicalities? Bitching about what the tape was for, and then saying "this is where research comes in...." would imply you've opined they did not do research. It's just sad how you put people down because you sat on your ass and watched a different 20 minute documentary before this. Get a life bitch.
IzaFaqat 6 months ago
@IzaFaqat Bitching about someone else's comment is so tangential, I seem to have aggravated you; excellent. You disagree with someone on the internet? congratulations, why don't you come from a disadvantaged background then go get yourself BA hons, masters and go for a phd while you're at it and then call people unintelligent and bitches and it might hold some weight, mate.
IncidentalShine 6 months ago
@IncidentalShine Oh my god she doesn't shut up, it's painful to watch you evade everything I saw in an attempt to be (a) intelligent and (b) witty, using every big boy work you can think of, and now I see you're on the cusp of "u mad lolcats" - I state once more, the only reason you could say what you said is because you've sad upon your fatass, watching a different doc. and then you think that gives you the right to tell people to research like you're a Harvard professor.
IzaFaqat 6 months ago
@IzaFaqat I love big boy work!
IncidentalShine 6 months ago
@IncidentalShine I watched the documentary and they explain about the tape but here the tape seemed to lead to nowhere.
mariebreskic 2 months ago
this is the first time I heard somebody saying it looks like a prop and then you see an actual real suicide site. I have watched another film where they said that interaction between people is a all-time low. I think people have a hard time trying to find other people that think they need interaction with other people. I know when I was young I tried several suicide attempts and never went through with it I just found determination not to bow down to society.
MysticdoubleX 1 year ago
You guys should go back there and spend the night
SodiumCyanide 1 year ago 2
i want every single weeaboo to see this so that next time they'll think twice before saying OH GEE I WANT TO MOVE TO JAPAN BECAUSE IT'S SO MUCH BETTER THAN MY HOME COUNTRY AND IT'S VERY SUGOI. No, it's fucking not. it's just another country that has it's own problems like everyone else.
rainbowIchigo 1 year ago 51
@rainbowIchigo Shut the fuck up
BurningCarcassTV 11 months ago
@rainbowIchigo this man speaks the truth
ministeroftuba 10 months ago
@rainbowIchigo Its true, I always thought "man, Japan looks like such a nice place, so quiet and peaceful, people have so much respect and dignity" and tho that all may be true, its still a country, full of people, with similar problems to everyone else.
DodgeMan360 7 months ago
4:13 what a maggot.
mahound9 1 year ago
3:18 well yeah! the Jukai is littered with copies of that very book. It's a manual of suicide. Someone very likely died just where you found it and the body was later found and taken away.
mahound9 1 year ago
swedish music. agh
PPATATATT 1 year ago
in 19 to 22 the man is running from something.A man can not go that fast only run.
TheTaxx 1 year ago
is it true that if u get off the track and loose it u get lost? and might not come out of the forest? coz i read about it from another site and that got me quite interested. but when u showed the whole forest in the begining it didnt really look so big, and that u can actually have enaugh time to get out :/ confuuuseeeeed
zammer4 1 year ago
@zammer4
wikipedia says its 35 square kilometers and it's dense and so easy to get lost (go in circles)
cthulhu11111111 1 year ago
when they found the book it was creepy as hell
ManicTheManic 1 year ago
This documentry is real, i just hate the author who made a book about how to kill yourself, i dont know who the hell got that book published, but apart from that its intresting documentery, and its sad as well to see how mayne people go there to kill themselves
caterpiller619 1 year ago
This makes me so sad watching this. It's just so real, like showing this ACTUALLY happens when some people don't even realize it.
AreYouEli 1 year ago
hmmmm, why can't they have a deforestation problem here?
grudgekid12 1 year ago
Even the perfect place to make a horror movie about I guess...
NecroPhil85 1 year ago
Freaky think of how many people have walked in there and never come out again???
sylvan0707 1 year ago
Nice work. Seems to try understand some of the deeper issues in the japanese culture. Very interesting.
Crakinbama 1 year ago
"Det är typ som en set-up..."
"Det här måste ju vara en prop..."
Varför kör ni inte hela dokumentären på engelska istället?
Malrynn 1 year ago
Fucking capitalism... they have not a psychologist problem, they have educational and moral problems. Fuck money... why they don't buy the book: How to build a home for 15 dollars or more. ? Money is the biggest lie in the world.
gilbertoguru 1 year ago
@gilbertoguru LMFAO! U broke, got no money, ur life sucks.....hahaha kill yourself
kishaba1980 1 year ago
loosers
gastonrivero 1 year ago
@gastonrivero none of them looked very loose
dippydawg827 1 year ago
Thanks for this, odd looking forest - almost primordial.
I couldnt see the bodies very well but the skull looked like a prop - not the skull itself but the way it was hanging...
how deep were you into the forest?
it says on wiki that after more than half a mile the paths are less used and dissapear and no searches are carried out past that point....i bet there are bodies that have bee there for years.... Also it would be intresting to see the forest in its "pristine condition".
Isthisthelongestname 1 year ago
I love this.
CristyCakes 1 year ago
this is interesting. I wish people realized that it isn't just Japan where life is getting expensive. This is the case for most people in OECD countries. The problem arises I think within modern Japanese culture. Its incompatible with helping people deal with the challenges of modern life. They lack certain institutions that allows one to release their stress. I also find that when they do find something to do its to an extreme. The culture has to change. I doubt it will happen.
lordblazer 1 year ago
外国人観光客が増えないことを祈る。地元民にとっては大変迷惑だから。
yawato 1 year ago
I have to say, the most chilling thing is when you started fighting peoples items, just laying around. Very nicely done.
PzGSephy 1 year ago
brilliant documentary guys. very well done.
wue2117 1 year ago
strange music choice around 0:10 ...
Baxxter101 1 year ago
4:58. that lady is fuckin creepy. y does she smile all the time ?
mancheromanchero 1 year ago
omg alksin your right O.o
MyGreenApplePhotos 1 year ago
search the trailer "the forest"
MegaMerdeux 1 year ago
I just didnt like it the last part where japanese people were talking about how their lives are depressing in Japan. I myself as a japanese i dont wanna stereotype my culture that way...
bornslippy666 1 year ago
勘違いしている海外の人もいるみたいだけどもともとは国立公園。観光名所でですよ。
普通に遊歩道もあるしその辺りなら死体も出てこない。
そして森自体が「天然記念物」に指定されているので、この動画を見て樹海に入ろうと思う方は無闇に道を外れて森に入らないでくださいね。
ちなみに知っている方は少ないと思うが、樹海は近くに大型のアンテナが設置してあり、携帯は電波を受信する事がそれに対し携帯の電波は弱いため送信する事はできない。
つまり携帯のアンテナが画面に表示されていて外にいる人からのメールや電話は受信できるが、こちらから返事する事はできない。
それと野犬が出る。
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nbsssttt025 1 year ago
The T U R E reason Japanese people become an ECONOMIC ANIMAL is that Japanese is forced to buy the U.S. Treasury bonds, GSE and various FRAUD financial products created by the wall street for several trillion to create bubble and to support American economy. 凸(`ε´●) SEARCH it in this word and CHECK ＴＨＥ FACT !! ▼▼ Major Foreign Holders of US Treasury Securities ▼▼But this shows only "short term treasury". Japanese people support themselves, their family, and Americans !!
ThePierreChannel 1 year ago
So, when will you guys finish the full length documentary? I'd really love to see it!
MrF0nzie77 1 year ago 3
every one can find dead body in this forest!!
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w1000010 1 year ago
i would love to know where the soundtrack came from. i would love to know where i could by that.
MaSmNpYouth 1 year ago
creepy place almost like anime in real life
gravityhammer25 1 year ago
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There are bones and clothing all throughout there. The strangest calmest place I have ever been.
sm3a3z 1 year ago
There are bones and clothing all throughout there. The strangest calmest place I have ever been.
sm3a3z 1 year ago
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There are bones and clothing all throughout there. The strangest calmest place I have ever been.
sm3a3z 1 year ago
There are bones and clothing all throughout there. The strangest calmest place I have ever been.
sm3a3z 1 year ago
Was there 2 times with my old unit. We did training in there and at the time I had no knowledge if the place. It is very very easy to get lost in there. If we did not have radios and vehicles honking I am sure we would have been lost for quite some time. I remember it was cloudy while we were there both times in the winter and when you walk through the canopy of trees makes it very dark even during the day. I had the strangest feeling walking through there so when I got back to camp I googled it
sm3a3z 1 year ago
Interesting place.
Sounds like a place I'd LOVE to visit on my trip to Japan some day.
ASurrealEntity 1 year ago
Have you folks finished this movie?
computerscumo 1 year ago
At 17 seconds the white mist or figure which looks more like a figure, it's too fast to be someone or the guide to walk that fast and then vanishes if it were to be the guide or some else they would be moving slower trying to get over branches, rocks and holes so they don't fall so how would they move that fast? so many people have died out there it is a 80% chance that it was a spirit. P.S if you look closely it has a transparent look to it.
sakura4184 1 year ago
ahhh the perfect place to die...back to nature
IndoAtheist 1 year ago
that is so sad
meow23 1 year ago
Looks so beautiful.
Aethian 1 year ago
cool video
MrPerfectHour 1 year ago
Go camping there
strongblackman 1 year ago
this is quite enlightening. thanks for the insight.
CradLeRcker 1 year ago
i have seen some very disturbing real pictures of hanging rotting corpses from the trees on the internet it shows people just hung there lifeless some people hang themsellves inreally odd positions its horrible aswell that there were some pics with really badly decayed bodies even bones where the corpses have lain there for so lond and the dirty clothese surrounding them the harsh realities of life are so sad
InfernoPhoenix322 1 year ago
they can't tale the criticism of other people specially when it comes to losing a job. The forest looks awesome and dead bodies add the awesomness. pretty scary tho
athf743 1 year ago
Something looks weird starting at :17 seconds. As the camera pans, a white something seems to be moving very fast. It looks like it's behind the trees, so I don't think it's a reflection. Anyone else see it?
Libramoon77 1 year ago
yes i saw it too the 1st time i saw the vid...and its like the camera is following it..
pantelisOeO 1 year ago
I guess the movie fight club was never shown to japanese people? money is not everything lol
BigHashTouraj 1 year ago
This is extremely fascinating. Thank you so much for posting this documentary, it is a rare look into the social, almost global taboo of committing suicide.
premedlove3 2 years ago
This isn't creepy, it's just so sad that people would end their lives like this.
Makes you wonder what must have gone through their minds to end their existence like this.
devilhunterred 2 years ago
well I think it is sad that people can feel so down they want to die, but we're all capable of end our lives its about you as a person and how far your willing to sink before getting help or ending it all. Of course some are mentally ill but sometimes life just gets so dark and unbarable and lonely that its bound to cross everyones mind at least once in life, its not healthy but its part of the human condition I suppose...lonliness is the worst.
HelbaRion 2 years ago
@devilhunterred no money and hunger would make u bite the dust
BigHashTouraj 1 year ago
This is scary, I wouldn't even have the balls to go in there. Respect!
ducktill 2 years ago 16
OMG, and I thought the books and clothes and bodies were just a hoax.
That's crazy!
newfful 2 years ago
thank you for this video. very interesting
melonpan88 2 years ago 6
mice vid i wanna know more
TexazFox666 2 years ago
i believe there is a movie of this.. im not sure but i uploaded on veoh without having the balls to watch it haha. search for FOREST OF DEATH.
llx2o1 2 years ago
Has anyone seen the episode of Destination Truth where they spend the night in this forest? Its very cool and creepy.
Shogun57 2 years ago
No, do you know where i can dowmload this please?
Nigelcf 2 years ago
@Nigelcf i just downloaded all of season 2. try googleing it, it may come up
Shogun57 2 years ago
@Shogun57 thanks i'll have a look.
Nigelcf 2 years ago
creepy
yunais1 2 years ago 3
hey man, that aokigahara documentary is really good, can we see the whole thing ?
ripzoneify 2 years ago
Very interesting documentary! Thanks!
CryoKeen 2 years ago
OMG in second 19 to 22 you can see a white figure walking in the woods. watch it carefuly
alksin 2 years ago 4
i saw what you were talking about.
saya44 2 years ago
that would be a person....
you can see him/her walking around in part one
lol....
a7xdrewa7x 2 years ago
i cant see it
iNick164 2 years ago
ya i see!
CryoKeen 2 years ago
HOLY SHIT !!!!!!!1
ripzoneify 2 years ago
its a person walking. the same person is in part one.
prehistoricyall 2 years ago
If we're talking about the man dressed in white, who's in the background in the first film, for a couple of seconds, it's the husband of Fumie, our lovely guide. It's probably him walking by behind the trees. Sorry for de-mystifying.....
Fnoalle 2 years ago 19
But the figure in white here (pt 2) is running (right to left) really fast. Why is he running if he's supposed to be the guide?
Nigelcf 2 years ago
@Fnoalle when is the full documantery commin??
jaum79 1 year ago
@Fnoalle You mean the figure in white with a speed of someone in a marathon sprint? The man must be in great shape. It just seems to move way too fast for a normal walk.
AyaMizumi 1 year ago
@alksin i saw tht to
dingos5 1 year ago
@alksin NICE CATCH i see it 2 its oviously someone or sumthing running then dissapearing
MoCityDon1508 1 year ago
@alksin y see to but it just light y think but its not ghost :b
rihardo123 1 year ago
@alksin fuuuuuuckkkkk ur right man
LastTree08 1 year ago
It's kinda weird that bones and stuff are just left to rot in there but then again, the body search is done on an annual basis.
contrived or not, that book you found there gives me the creeps.
magnusatthva 2 years ago
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I think it's curious how those guys find a "suicide manual" like that in the forest. In plus the book seems like brand new. For christ sake. Dumbest and fakest documentary I ever saw. Those two guys should hang themselves in order to regain their honor!
NihonRap 2 years ago
This is a real documentary, and everything you see is true. I tried hard throughout the production and editing not to "lie". Meaning that I didn't even want to cut together an establishing shot of a building's façade with an interior, if it wasn't the same building. We did find the book on the ground, just like that. It could have been a "new" copy, although it was totally ruined by the damp and the dirt. I still have it.
Fnoalle 2 years ago 9
@Fnoalle why did you keep the book?
josiasarnaldo 1 year ago
@NihonRap nah its real,japan is a wacked out place. i blame the radiation
BigHashTouraj 1 year ago
@NihonRap Dude read up on this place it's all real people find bodies there when they go
selty 1 year ago
@NihonRap thanks, crazy racist grandpa
coprographia 1 year ago
no one collect bodies? why not just seal the forest... it seems to me Japanese gov is supporting this for local attraction... life is stressful sometimes, but does not mean it won't get better.
Remittee 2 years ago 2
@Remittee well see in Japan your career is your life without it your less than dirt and they tend to work you ungodly hours and this is a persons everyday life, its not like in america were you lose a job you find a new one. If you lose your job (a career job not like a part time thing) people don't treat you the same as before. This causes people to resort to suicide quiet alot, and the government used to go looking for bodies and putting them in a newspaper (the number) but they stoped.
HelbaRion 2 years ago
That's why it seems so emotionally sad to me. If I take a trip into the forest, I wouldn't be scared or creeped out. i would probably sympathize with the people who lost all hopes in life that they had to resort to ending their own lives. And I would appreciate and treasure my own life much more than before, knowing that my life isn't so terrible that I would think about killing myself.
It's also interesting that out of all species, only humans are capable of ending their own lives.
devilhunterred 2 years ago
I agree it seems very sad.
I myself would not kill myself at this point, but that's because I have hope and something to live for.
But If you were to loose all you cared for, what would be the point? Somebody that ends their own life has thought it through ALOT before they do it
It's a matter of intelligence/how far developed we are I'd say.
A cat for example can probably not even get "sad" in the same level as us human, and even if it can, it's not "smart" enough to consider such a thing.
JrockNerd 1 year ago
@devilhunterred I believe bee's once they sting something die shortly after wards. I may be wrong and I am sure the bee's do not know that if they sting something they will die but I just thought about bringing it up. I wouldn't be scared either, just interested in what is still there and a little sad for all the people.
grabmygoobers 1 year ago
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They probably commit suicide from all that crappy anime they show on television over there. Its all guys with giant swords and spikey hair over there, fighting tentacles and crap. Its crap!
tardigrade6 2 years ago
This has just shown how close-minded and dumb you are. Because this is a perfect world, anime is everything in Japan, and people do not have anything else to worry about, like jobs, family, money. Nope, they do not exist in Japan. 8D
Stickarena90 2 years ago
I know that's what I was saying. You said the same thing as me. How does that make me dumb?
tardigrade6 2 years ago
whooa that shows of ignorant you are.
AwalkingModification 2 years ago
@tardigrade6 haha true that. fucking anime
BigHashTouraj 1 year ago
Poor people...I read this japanese book wich describes more than one main characters dead by suicide (Murakami's Tokyo Blues) So I guess suicide is among your culture, right? That's sad
lasfinisimas 2 years ago
@lasfinismas, suicide is a part of all societies not just one, all over the world hundreds if not thousands of people commit suicide in a month, its not just one country.
HelbaRion 2 years ago
I know that but there's some societies that tend to do it more than others. Japanese is one of them
lasfinisimas 2 years ago
Whoa..... Two dead bodies, plus a skull hanging off the rope.....That's pretty serious stuff right there, no joke.
MrNightOwl88 2 years ago 2
If there was a body there why isn't it removed by the police or some kind of government agency, how can it be just left there until it's reduced to being a skeleton.
The police ought to look into it by law because it could also be the perfect place to dump a body, not necessarily a suicide place.
redtortoise76 2 years ago 5
Appx 100 bodies are found every year. Of course, no one knows how many bodies are NOT found. The forest is large and dense. Most bodies are found by locals or visitors. The police don't search the forest often, for obvious reasons. When we had found the body, we called the police, who, as you correctly pointed out that they should, examined the place and the body as though it could have been a murder, disguised as a suicide.
Fnoalle 2 years ago 4
it is sad because I come from Japan. friend commit suicide and the next day I cried
TheHellknight12 2 years ago 2
@Fnoalle you say "The police don't search the forest often, for obvious reasons". What obvious reasons are these? I would have thought it would be a good idea for the police to search the forest often.
wootlanter 1 year ago
@wootlanter
"Obvious reasons" meaning it is more economically to not waste police resources for constant mass searches of bodies when locals/visitors are statistically more likely and more efficient at finding them.
HitomiNoRyu 1 year ago
@Fnoalle amazing documentary! but it's too short. :) you should add subtitles for all those japanese speakers, it's hard to understand all their words... but you are gifted, thanks for your work, i loved it.
josiasarnaldo 1 year ago
@Fnoalle
I'm thinking people are getting murdered in the forest. I dunno. There was a murder here in Beppu near one of the hot springs in the mountain.
lordblazer 1 year ago
This area here is a small town with a limited budget. the burial costs alone for the unclaimed bodies wz going to bankrupt the town... that is the reason
kishaba1980 2 years ago
oh my god
i would've screamed
kapez125 2 years ago
Is their a full length movie of this?, i would love to watch it.
SpyderR0de0 2 years ago 2
the only good thing in those videos is that you can see a bit of the forest...those men are very morbid, so the only positif thing that they does, is that show us the forest... and abut theyr conversation about people who do sucide... they are no one to judje them all.. I would like to know wht they will do under a strong social pressure. To more ingnorance more blind suppositions.Nothig interesting in that vid. Speculations.
tranvozcaya 2 years ago
Why is the bike not rusted and everything not old. There were skeletons and it takes a long time to become one. Shoes should be all muddy from rain.
Kuzarkit 2 years ago 2
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Kuzarkit 2 years ago
This is a fascinating documentary! I cant wait until you guys finish it. I do have one question however: Is this the only documentary about this forest? Because it seems like such an interesting subject and I cant see why its not a more popular topic.
gigglechainaffect874 2 years ago 2
could u do an over-night ivestigation next time u go there because that forest is very suspicous
SDKDavid 2 years ago 9
@SDKDavid Watch 'Destination Truth'. They spent the night investigating in the forest in search for spirits.
iamsyakir 1 year ago
@iamsyakir Could you give me a link for it?
SDKDavid 1 year ago
@SDKDavid /watch?v=HkOrooVBY64 Can't post up the full link here. But here you go, you know what to do.
iamsyakir 1 year ago
Did u screw that water drinkin' sass post-interview? Here's 20 bux u did X-)
SevenHundredMillion 2 years ago
read affluenza. it's interesting and touches on the depression brought about by money
drhollywoodmusic 2 years ago
no wildlife, no birds.... that's fucking creepy
ThEcAnAdIaNeMo 2 years ago 23
@ThEcAnAdIaNeMo 3.16, I can clearly hear birds. >.>
dundeecake 1 year ago
Wow, Holy shit.
If I would've seen the skull stuck on the branch I would've shit myself.
But nice...I've wanted to travel there and spend a while camping.
Iguanaintrouble 2 years ago
Dude...how can you react so calmly when you find a body?
But anyway, you've done a good job with this.
SjoukJDB 2 years ago