Wonderful Paradise
Director: Masashi YAMAMOTO ("Robinson's Garden", "Junk Food")
Producer: Shin-ichiro MURAOKA ("Akame 48 Waterfalls")
Cast: Kaho MINAMI ("Sayonara Kabukicho", "Masterless") / Akira EMOTO ("Shoplifters", "Zatoichi") / Seiko ITO / Soran TAMATO / Miyu OGAWA
Genre: Comedy
Theatrical Release in Japan: December 2020
[2020 / Color / HD / Stereo / 97 min. / Japanese with English subtitles]
[Festival Record]
Nominated - Fantasia Film Festival 2021 Cheval Noir (Competition Section)
Official selection - Lund Fantastic Film Festival 2021
Official selection - Sydney Underground Film Festival 2021
Official selection - Japan Cuts 2021
Official selection - Nippon Connection 2021
Official selection - TOHorror Fantastic Film Fest 2021
[Synopsis]
At a large mansion on the outskirts of Tokyo, Shuji SASAYA looks around a room with full of packed cardboard boxes. He has to sell this mansion because of his mistake.
His hermit son, Yuta, brings a homeless into the house, and his daughter has frustrated by her reckless father, and wrote on Twitter, "Let's have a party today at my place. Anyone is welcome!!" A retweet sound is ringing at high speed beside her sleeping.
The first to come to the Sasayas were moving companies Taichi and Atsushi, and a divorced mother of Yuta and Akane, Akiko. She seems to have hit-and-run away from the moving truck.
A gay couple looking for a wedding venue, elementary school students come to rent a shower, two men cultivating suspicious plants on the premises of the Sasayas, and other peculiar people get together to have a wedding, a funeral and even a festival at the mansion. Both the living and the dying are in the rage of frenzy, the story unfolds.
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