HAF: Ogigami Naoko Seeking Path to Healing Through ‘Blind Forest’
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variety.comPatrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefJapanese writer-director Ogigami Naoko has a track record of creating sensitive, emotionally-healing dramas that are serious enough to grab festival attention, but which are spirited enough to also achieve commercial releases.Her next project, “Blind Forest,” being pitched at the Hong Kong – Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF), is unlikely to stray far from that track.Many of the director’s previous works (“Glasses” “Close Knit” “Yoshino’s Barber Shop”) involve the culture-clashing arrival of a stranger and their route to eventual accommodation.The story in “Blind Forest” focuses on women in an institution (no prizes for guessing what kind) who are busily working on creating Braille texts for blind readers..
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