Part of Satori Screen
Satori Screen presents a rare cinema screening of a fantastic Japanese comedy, newly restored in 4K.
Five bizarre stories with no apparent connection to one another, featuring Tadanobu Asano, Reika Hashimoto, Hiroshi Abe, Vinnie Jones & Sonny Chiba, eventually become intertwined, resulting in surreal circumstances.
A salaryman wins tickets to the latest stage sensation, the hypnosis show VIVA FRIENDS! In the middle of the act an assassin shows up and kills the hypnotist, leaving the salaryman stranded and convinced he is a bird. A gang of burglars roam the suburbs while simultaneously dealing with their budding lust for one another. Meanwhile, a man kills and buries his wife, only to have her claw her way out of the grave and go after him with missile arms and fire breath, over and over again.
Acclaimed commercial director Gen Sekiguchi pulls all these strands together into a movie that is thrillingly original. Survive Style 5+ jettisons traditional movie tricks and aims for something more, a movie where love means never having to kill your wife more than five or six times.
This screening will include an introduction from Satori Screen’s Peter Munford.
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