The premise
Minoru Kawasaki directs this comedic psychological thriller that follows a large koala as he looks for help from several of his closest friends, which include a giant rabbit and frog. A hardworking executive at a pickle company, Mr. Tamura stands out from other employees because he's a koala bear who stands six feet tall. When his human girlfriend is found murdered, the blackout-prone Tamura goes on the run and tries to solve the mystery.
Horror Vault's take
A six-foot koala navigating the mundane pressures of corporate life suddenly finds himself the prime suspect when his human girlfriend turns up dead. Plagued by blackouts he can't explain, Mr. Tamura must untangle his own fractured memory to clear his name — or confront something far darker about himself. Director Minoru Kawasaki wraps a genuinely unsettling psychological mystery inside a deadpan world where anthropomorphic animals coexist with humans as a matter of unremarkable fact. Equal parts whodunit and identity crisis, it's one of the strangest and most surprisingly gripping cult oddities to emerge from Japanese genre cinema.
Content: Violence, Murder, Psychological Distress
Cast
Explore related
Ratings & reviews
No reviews yet — be the first to pass judgment.
Sign in to rate this title and warn (or tempt) the next viewer.
More like this
Gozu
2003 · 130m
Visitor Q
2001 · 84m
Greatful Dead
2014 · 97m
As the Gods Will
2014 · 117m
My Girlfriend Is a Serial Killer
2019 · 103m
Funeral Parade of Roses
1969 · 105m
Onibaba
1964 · 105m
One Cut of the Dead
2017 · 96m