Saturday, July 12, 2014, 8:30 PM
Japan Society
333 E 47th St, New York, NY 10017

NEW YORK PREMIERE

Co-presentation with the New York Asian Film Festival

In a future or parallel world, family-man Dr. Teramoto (Toru Tezuka) receives a very special delivery: a crate containing a mail order female zombie (Ayaka Komatsu), complete with an instruction manual prescribing a vegetarian diet, a cautionary note against any meat, and a gun–just in case. Teramoto’s wife (Makoto Togashi) promptly puts the zombie to work, assigning her the task of scrubbing the garden patio. In lieu of wages, she gets daily rations of rotten greens. Things take a disturbing turn when two contractors working at the villa molest the zombie girl. Witnessing this, the doctor becomes turned on and makes her his plaything. The zombie shows no particular emotional response and yet, as she stoically sews back her wounds, an ominous sense of foreboding emerges. Fate comes knocking at the door when Teramoto’s young son, Kenichi (Riku Onishi), has a dreadful accident. The tables begin to turn for master and servant.

Japan. 2013. 85 min. HDCAM, in Japanese with English subtitles. Directed by SABU. With Ayaka Komatsu, Toru Tezuka, Makoto Togashi, Riku Ohnishi, Tateto Serizawa, Takaya Yamauchi.

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