Doesn't every kid imagine being lost in the woods?
The mental outcome, of course, is always positive as you follow the first stream you find back to civilization and safety. But in reality, a little disorientation can be a scary thing, as I learned in my boyhood explorations of the Western Pennsylvania woods. What if you wander about in a circle, as hunger and thirst do their slow, deadly work?
Such is the dilemma faced by the seven heroines of Shuichi Okita's "Taki wo Mi ni Iku (Ecotherapy Getaway Holiday)," all of whom are over 40 and none of whom were expecting anything more than a pleasant hike to a lovely waterfall. Then their pudgy, nervous guide (Daisuke Kuroda) does a disappearing act and they are left to their own devices.