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Writer/Director Kawasaki Minoru shot to cult fame with the infamous “Calamari Wrestler” about a wrestling squid, and he’s back in anthropomorphic territory with “Executive Koala”.

Keiichi Tamura is a hardworking executive in a pickle company, who is making a big merger at work and struggling with memory loss and the mysterious disappearance of his wife three years prior. He’s also a koala, which doesn’t seem to bother people too much, but then the president of the company is a large white rabbit. Tamura enters the sights of the police when his current girlfriend is found stabbed to death and his murky past seem to imply that he is not the well-mannered Koala he appear to be.

On the surface “Executive Koala” takes the shape of a thriller, but delve into weird psychological territory and spices it all up with quite a few surprising twists and turns. Indeed, you never quite know what to expect next as one bizarre scene follows the next, ranging from romance to creepy horror and a musical trial. It doesn’t make a hell of a lot of sense and becomes weirder and weirder, but then you were never really gonna get a normal movie when the main character is a suit wearing Koala.

A cross between magical realism and surrealist expressionism, “Executive Koala” might be weird for the sake of weird, but unlike David Lynch and his sort, who take that thing very serious under the guise of art, “Executive Koala” is inherently silly and never tries to hide or excuse that.

“Calamari Wrestler” had a more straight forward and accessible plot and made sense within it’s narrative universe. “Executive Koala” doesn’t, but then it isn’t supposed to. It just comes at you with a wealth of ideas and odd quirky silliness, but you can’t help but feel that it’s a joke on people who would take this sort of surrealism too serious and engage in deep analysis.

“Executive Koala” strength is it’s truly quirky reality and one-of-a-kind expression, all the while sending you in one direction wondering where it’s going until you realize, “Hey, it’s a giant talking koala” and you cannot help but laugh at even the darkest subject matter.

You will probably come away wondering what it was all about, but still having been thoroughly entertained and laughed heartily at the goofy silliness of the whole thing. But that’s a good and very charming thing.

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Minoru Kawasaki (The Calamari Wrestler, Executive Koala) returns with yet another bizarre offering of Japanese film oddity.
Taisho’s father is a supermodel cat, and everybody believes that Taisho will be a supermodel as well. His family has great expectations of him, because he is the eldest son, but he can’t bear all the pressure and runs away from home.
Unfortunately, he has no clue how to survive on his own, having always been fed and pampered as a model cat. Taisho passes from one job to another, homeless, until he finds his place in a noodle shop, where he becomes a successful cook.
If only that ended his troubles!

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Language(s):Japanese
Subtitles:English, Russian

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