A former murderer and genius chef along with a waitress come together with a group of fantastical assassins in a diner. A girl with a hollowness in her heart, who believes that she belongs nowhere, is thrust into a series of attacks where she must struggle to find her will to live.
Direction
Ninagawa's music-video aesthetic makes every murder look edible.
Production
The diner set — a neon wonderland hiding pure rot.
Costume
Each assassin's look tells their entire backstory.
Director
Mika Ninagawa
Tatsuya Fujiwara
Bombero
Tina Tamashiro
Kanako Oba
Masataka Kubota
Skin
Kanata Hongo
Kid
Shinji Takeda
Buro
Takumi Saitoh
Cowboy
Eriko Sato
DD
Nobuaki Kaneko
Butatoko
Shun Oguri
Mateba
Anna Tsuchiya
Maria
Miki Maya
Bureizu
Eiji Okuda
Coffie
Yoshino Kimura
Skin's Mother
Kazue Tsunogae
Kanako's Grandmother
Komuai
Woman reading Moby Dick
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on a novel by Yumeaki Hirayama, itself adapted from his manga. The director Mika Ninagawa is primarily a photographer famous for hyper-saturated flower imagery — this is her second feature.
The film's visual language borrows heavily from 'ero-guro' (erotic grotesque) tradition, a Japanese interwar aesthetic movement celebrating the beautiful and disturbing.
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