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Story

Miyori and her parents go to the country to visit her grandparents, but her father and mother bicker the entire time.  Miyori’s mother shows no interest in the countryside, while her father is preoccupied with his job in advertising.  They don’t notice when Miyori goes missing, but the grandparents’ dog Kuro goes in search of her.  She is playing with a tiny bear in front of a giant cherry-blossom tree; the bear grows in size until it towers over Kuro, whose fur turns white in fear.  A female spirit in the tree tells Miyori that the forest will be hers.
Ten years later, Miyori’s parents have split and Miyori’s preoccupied father is bringing her to live with her grandparents.  Her father reminisces: They still have no idea how Miyori ended up at the top of the tree that day.  Miyori doesn’t remember a thing; moreover, she is angry about being sent to the countryside when she would rather stay in Tokyo.  Bored from the start at her grandmother’s traditional house, she goes for a walk in the forest.  When she realizes her cell phone is out of range, she drops it in the river.  She sleeps under the same giant cherry-blossom tree, wondering that it is in full bloom even though it is July.  She curls up next to a giant tiger, imagining that she must be dreaming, but her dreams turn to nightmares about her past.  Her parents fought while she hid in the closet and cried.  She awakens to find a giant anteater-type creature crying over her with its sucker attached to her forehead.
That night, as she sleeps, a river spirit slips up to the veranda of the house and returns her cell phone.  She follows it into the woods and meets a group of spirits who greet her as a long-lost friend.  Among them are Bokuriko, who posed as the bear and later the tiger, Old Nego, and Kanoko the river spirit.  She is dismissive of them, and Kanoko is amazed that she is to be the guardian of the forest.
Miyori’s grandmother is the current guardian.  Her grandmother sets up the second floor of their house for her and then brings Miyori to the third floor, where the spirits live.  Miyori goes to the local school, where the village children overwhelm her with their friendliness and questions about life in Tokyo.  A boy about her age, Daisuke, is having none of it and pelts her with a ball.  Miyori runs into the forest to escape, and goes down a forbidden path to a pond where a ghostly woman in white befriends her.  The woman was betrayed by her husband and hanged herself on the very spot.  From her, Miyori learns that the entire region will be flooded by a dam project. 
When Miyori gets into a fight with Daisuke at school, she tells him in spite that the entire school will soon be underwater.  Daisuke goes to find the ghostly woman, and when he doesn’t return, Miyori goes to the pond.  She fights with the spiteful woman, and in defeating her, liberates her.  Researchers arrive, bearing rifles to fend off bears, to determine the feasibility of the dam project, and the children hatch a plot: if they can find a golden eagle, an endangered species, the dam project will have to be halted.  The children fail to find a golden eagle, but Miyori calls a meeting of all of the forest spirits, and Bokuriko changes shape to appear as a golden eagle to the researchers.  The plan goes awry, however, when the men level their guns on Bokuriko; they aren’t researchers at all, but men hired by construction contractors to make sure there are no golden eagles left in the area.  Under the guidance of the cherry-blossom tree sprite, the spirits band together and scare the hunters out of the area.  The dam project is called off and Miyori’s parents attempt to work things out, but Miyori has decided that she will stay near her forest.

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