Funky Forest

2005 Japanese film
  • 22 October 2005 (2005-10-22) (Hawaii)
  • February 2006 (2006-02) (YIFFF)
Running time
150 minutesCountryJapanLanguagesJapanese
Mandarin
English

Funky Forest: The First Contact (ナイスの森 THE FIRST CONTACT, 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.[1]

Cast

  • Tadanobu Asano
  • Susumu Terajima
  • Ryō Kase as Takefumi
  • Rinko Kikuchi
  • Mariko Takahashi
  • Hideaki Anno
  • Moyoco Anno
  • Kazue Fukiishi
  • Chiduru Ikewaki
  • Shihori Kanjiya

Release

The film was released on Region 1 DVD in March 2008.[2]

The film was released on Region Free Blu Ray by Error 4444 together with Third Window Films United States, Canada and Europe in 2021.[3]

References

  1. ^ "Cinema Strikes Back". Archived from the original on 3 May 2008. Retrieved 23 March 2008.
  2. ^ "Cinematical". Retrieved 23 March 2008.
  3. ^ "Error 4444". Retrieved 18 December 2022.

External links

  • Funky Forest at IMDb Edit this at Wikidata
  • Funky Forest at AllMovie
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