Herbstfest: Die Familie mit dem umgekehrten Düsenantrieb (OmU) - Eintritt frei -

In the organizer's words:

"The sheer uninhibitedness of the movie is enough to keep you interested, since you don't know how far it can go (...) unmistakably a movie in which there are no limits." - NY TIMES

"Watching Ishii's film is a bit like rediscovering the thrill of your first encounter with Monty Python all those years ago: black humor at its most vicious (i.e., funniest), fast-paced as a commuter express and spiced with a dash of science fiction that keeps even the most chipper viewer guessing where he, she or it is going." - TIME OUT

The Kobayashi family can finally move out of their tiny, cramped Tokyo apartment and into the house of their dreams on the outskirts of the city. But things are not as perfect as they seem: The house is infested with termites and the family starts to go crazy: Son Masaki studies so obsessively for his exams that he loses his mind; daughter Erika thinks only of her upcoming audition with a record company; grandfather Yasukuni gets flashbacks from World War II; and father Katsuhiko is so worried about his family's "illness" that he believes it can only be cured by group suicide. As the Kobayashi house begins to crumble, so does the sanity of its inhabitants. Katsuhiko takes it upon himself to keep them away from the asylum ... at all costs.

A film by Sogo Ishii
1984 Japan, 106 min.
With Katsuya Kobayashi, Mitsuko Baisho, Yoshiki Arizono, Youki Kudoh, Hitoshi Ueki and others.

More info about the movie at rapid eye movies

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