The Forest of Love is a crime-thriller movie produced by Hiroshi Muto. Sion Sono directed and wrote the script of this Japanese film. It draws inspiration from the crimes of convicted serial killer Futoshi Matsunaga, who committed torture, murders, and extortion in Kyushu, Japan, spanning from the mid-1990s to the early 2000s.
Here’s how you can watch and stream The Forest of Love via streaming services such as Netflix.
Is The Forest of Love available to watch via streaming?
The Forest of Love is available to watch via streaming on Netflix.
The film revolves around Joe Murata, a cunning older man who uses a fake online screenplay project to trick women. He targets two kinds of people. One kind is young, impressionable filmmakers. Then there’s a socially awkward girl with strict parents. Murata uses a mix of charm, emotional abuse, and manipulation to get his victims under his thumb. Eventually, he even pulls them into his criminal activities.
The film stars Kippei Shiina as Joe Murata, Shinnosuke Mitsushima as Shin, Kyoko Hinami as Taeko, and Eri Kamataki as Mitsuko.
Watch The Forest of Love streaming via Netflix
The Forest of Love is available to watch on Netflix.
Netflix is a popular subscription streaming service that offers a vast catalog of movies, TV shows, and original content such as The Strays, Hold the Dark, Pandora, Caliphate, and Haunted.
You can watch via Netflix by following these steps:
- Visit netflix.com/signup
- Choose a payment plan from the following:
- $6.99 per month (standard with Ads)
- $15.49 per month (Standard)
- $22.99 per month (Premium)
- Enter your email address and password to create an account
- Enter your chosen payment method
The cheapest Netflix Standard with Ads Plan provides all but a few of its movies and TV shows. However, it will show ads before or during most of its content. You can watch in Full HD and on two supported devices at a time.
Its Standard Plan provides the same but is completely ad-free while also allowing users to download content on two supported devices with an additional option to add one extra member who doesn’t live in the same household.
The Premium Plan provides the same as above, though for four supported devices at a time, with content displaying in Ultra HD. Users get to download content on up to six supported devices at a time and have the option to add up to two extra members who don’t live in the same household. Netflix spatial audio is also supported.
The Forest of Love’s official synopsis is as follows:
“A con man and a would-be filmmaking crew force themselves into the lives of two grief-scarred young women. But nothing is as it seems.”
NOTE: The streaming services listed above are subject to change. The information provided was correct at the time of writing.
