

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
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.