Funky Forest (2005)

Original title

ナイスの森〜The First Contact〜

Directed by

Katsuhito Ishii

Genre

comedy film

Country

Japan

Runtime

2h 30m

Rating

6.4 of 10 from 61 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

The film is a Japanese anthology with multiple comical storylines. Some of these storylines overlap with each other.

whimsicalunpredictableabsurdplayfulsurrealoffbeatcomicalchaotic

What happens

Funky Forest: The First Contact (Japanese: ナイスの森 THE FIRST CONTACT, Hepburn: Naisu no Mori THE FIRST CONTACT; lit. Nice Forest: The First Contact), also known as Funky Forest: The First Encounter or simply Funky Forest, is a 2005 Japanese surrealist anthology science fiction comedy film co-written and co-directed by Katsuhito Ishii, Hajime Ishimine and Shunichiro Miki. It is composed of several storylines, some of which coincide, most of which are comical. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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