FFFA: Diner

“A Tarantino-esque romp... [a] madly colored, frantically paced and urgently orchestrated faux-horror-comedy.”

Australian Premiere

Kanako is all alone, and thinks her life can't get any worse...until she applies for a dubious part-time job on a whim, and is instantly torn from her mundane existence. She ends up being sold to a restaurant with fortress-like walls, thick iron doors, and an intensely colorful interior. Trapped within, she has no choice but to work as a waitress for the owner Bombero, a genius chef who also happens to be a retired assassin. The diner is visited by a succession of deadly and highly unusual assassins. Before long, Kanako realises she has been hurled into a world of insanity, in which every day is a fight for survival.

Festival Appearances/Awards:

2019 Shanghai International Film Festival, 2019 L'Étrange Festival

Language:

Japanese (English subtitles)

Content Warnings: 

Graphic violence.

Rating

Unclass18+

Cast

Tatsuya Fujiwara, Kanata Hongô, Nobuaki Kaneko

Director

Mika Ninagawa