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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
The same director turns an impossible squid-man premise into deadpan, proudly cheap-looking Japanese monster comedy, with affection for absurd creature spectacle rather than polished realism.
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Why this pick
Kawasaki’s straight-faced treatment of a surreal animal-headed office worker shares the original’s key pleasure: committing completely to an outrageous premise while keeping the comedy oddly sincere.
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Why this pick
This Kawasaki disaster parody matches the gleeful mix of civic catastrophe, dry official responses, and knowingly artificial spectacle that makes monster mayhem feel like a broad satire.
04
Why this pick
A mock-documentary kaiju comedy that finds humor in the bureaucratic, mundane side of giant-monster battles, balancing intentionally awkward effects with escalating absurdity.
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Why this pick
For another Japanese food-monster eruption, this splattery action-comedy turns sushi into a ludicrous threat with handmade effects, rapid chaos, and an unapologetically cartoonish tone.
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01 / THE STORY
Yuta, a young master at the Tsukiji Fish Market, accidentally drops his meal of mixed seafood into the Sumida River. Some time afterwards a gigantic mutated squid monster arises from the depths and begins to wreak havoc upon an awe-stricken Tokyo. Attempts by the Japan Self-Defense Forces to stop the creature prove futile. As it seems things couldn’t get any worse an enormous mutant octopus monster emerges from the deep and heads into a clash of the titans with the gargantuan squid! As a last ditch effort, the government forms the “Seafood Monster Attack Team (SMAT)” and an all-new plan of attack is immediately put into action. But just as the tide appears to be turning in humanity’s favor, a colossal crab monster appears, joining in the Monster Seafood Wars and plunging the world into culinary chaos…
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Yuta
Nana Hoshiyama