Jungle Spirit

60 years after World War 2, an aging former officer of the Japanese Imperial Army travels to Malaysia to exorcise horrible memories that have tortured him for the past 60 years. Towards the end of the war, he, as a member of a military command, participated in the execution of 5 young innocent locals. One nightmare has followed him from that time but is never completed and drives him mad. He needs to find out what really happened at that time.

He returns to the place where it happened with unexpected consequences. He visits the horrible island and gets involved in mystical time travel with an American tourist, who until the end doesn’t want to believe in what he had seen. The psychedelic meeting of the past, and reincarnated figures from the massacre in the tropical jungle, bring them both to the unexpected discovery of who they really are.

The belief in reincarnation, mysticism, the casualties of war, the tropical psychedelic drugging effect of the jungles and time travel brings the two different mentalities together as friends, supporting each other to overcome their post-war trauma.

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