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Bookmark this pageFunky Forest: The First Contact (2005)
Director: Katsuhito Ishii, Shunichiro Miki, Hajime Ishimine
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From Time Out New York
Imagine late-night channel-surfing in a Shinjuku hotel while shit-faced on sake, and you’ll start to approximate the non-sequitur sensations of Funky Forest, a disastrously misguided string of recurring sketch comedy, vaudeville slapstick, phallocentric body-horror grotesqueries, schoolgirl fetishes, dance breaks and flights of astro-fantasy. The scattershot approach inevitably scores a few laughs—but the humor is rooted more in drunken shock than inspired surrealism. Charitable reviewers might write off this movie’s eccentricities as lost-in-translation comedy. Wiser heads will see only half-baked crap.Author: Stephen Garrett
Time Out New York Issue 649: March 6-12, 2008
Cast & crew
Director: Katsuhito Ishii, Shunichiro Miki, Hajime Ishimine
Cast: Susumu Terajima, Tadanobu Asano, Andrew Alfieri
Duration: 150 mins
US Release: Mar 7 2008
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