Dead Children Invade a Remote Mountain Town

      

Original Japanese title: AME NO MACHI [City of Rain]

director: Makato Tanaka
starring: Soko Wada · Yoko Maki · Riho Narumi · Tsutomu Takeshige · Mitsuki Nagashima

      

A young tabloid reporter named Sota Kaneishi has been assigned the mysterious case of a child found dead after jumping from a suspension bridge. The most unusual aspect of the story is the child's body is missing all internal organs. Suspecting organ trafficking, Sota immediately visits the doctor who had conducted the autopsy. He discovers the organs were not stolen after all, but rather, missing from the start. The journalist traces the body back to a remote village in the woods, where he starts to unravel the story of a group of children who went missing 35 years ago... yet, some of them seem to reappear every time it rains....

Filmmaker Makato Tanaka was a successful producer (CASSHERN) who has directed only a handful of motion picture. This was is debut film in 2006. He has since moved to numerous television productions including a recent award winning mini-series called JK Wa Yukionna (2015/16).