What if your lunchbox was a chemistry experiment gone VERY wrong?
Daichi Harashima plays a kid fed on genetically engineered food produced by a company called "Superkid", thus having far higher IQ than kids of his age while suffering from mania.
Acting
Daichi Harashima's manic energy is genuinely unsettling
Direction
Cha Chuen-Yee builds dread through sterile fluorescent lighting
Production
The fake Superkid branding feels depressingly plausible
Director
Cha Chuen-Yee
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Daichi Harashima was actually a child prodigy himself, cast after winning a Japanese talent competition at age 6.
The film eerily predicted 2010s anxieties about GMOs and 'optimization parenting' in East Asian education culture.
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