Aru hi mori no naka (2014, wtf)

[HungFist]

Aru hi mori no naka (あるひもりのなか) ("on a certain day in the woods" or "one day in the woods")



The 39th film is the Seishun H series. Let me just quote this guy who summarized it perfectly...



Trailer:
http://youtu.be/7sr8skMRm54

Seihun H is a series of very loosely related low budget films by promising/interesting non-mainstream filmmakers. It's produced by Artport and basically sells itself as a series of slightly sexy films for young adults. A bit similar to Love Cinema and other such projects. The films get a very limited theatrical release in Tokyo (usually one week) by default, and the best ones may play in some other cities as well.

The output is very diverse: anything from surreal sex comedies to fake documentaries and dramas. There were quite a few interesting films early on, such as Sakichi Sato's Zero Man vs. The Half Virgin, Koji Shiraishi's Cho akunin, and Kota Yoshida's Solo nante kudaranai which I haven't seen yet.

The series hasn't looked so interesting recently, until I saw the trailer for Aru hi mori no naka. Among all the Japanese WTF products this looks strangely fascinating and retro. Looking forward to seeing it.

One of director Kenji Araki's earlier films was The Battle Cats (2007). You can see the trailer here (there's a link below the DVD cover):
http://www.rolans-film.com/item-detail.php?item_id=163

[HungFist]

This was totally cool! Lovely retro special effects, consistent vision (of madness), just restained enough, much more imaginative than any of the recent pop films by Takashi Miike, Noboru Iguchi or Lisa Takeba. Oh, and it's also a tribute to Godzilla vs. Hedorah.

The storyline is about a yellow bear that comes to planet earth with a space ship to conquer the planet but warns us about it first. He forces a schoolgirl to spread to word or he will explode her panties. It later turns into a romance with a mad scientist's son (and we get the compulsory sex scene)

















The Japanese retail dvd will be released tomorrow. The rental was already out so I watched it today.

[Tenchu1998]

...He forces a schoolgirl to spread to word or he will explode her panties...

Best idea since Sex & The Furry.