The debt-ridden Sasayas are moving out of their big house in the suburbs of Tokyo. Misinterpreting her father’s suggestion to “make fun memories” instead of focusing on the material move, Akane, the family’s daughter, posts an open invitation on Twitter: “Let’s have a party!” Soon, a homeless man comes to pray at the altar of the kitsch Greek statue in their driveway, and thus begins the bacchanal! Guest after guest pours into the house: movers first (of course), the family’s estranged mother second, a couple looking for a place to wed, the neighbourhood drug dealers, a confrontational aunt, and soon, with the unflinching logic of an ever-escalating matsuri gone utterly and irreversibly wild, jilted lovers, supernatural surprises, and delights of the kaiju variety…
Screening during the 2021 Fantasia International Film Festival. #Fantasia2021 #WonderfulParadise
https://fantasiafestival.com/en/film/wonderful-paradise
DIRECTOR: Masashi Yamamoto
WRITER: Suzuyuki Kaneko, Masashi Yamamoto
CAST: Akira Emoto, Seiko Ito, Kaho Minami, Miyu Ogawa, Soran Tamoto