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1210
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Mon January 9, 2012
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$9.99
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Description:
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Parents Guide: Sex & Nudity, Violence & Gore, Profanity, Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking, Frightening/Intense Scenes. If you don't have 18 years I will not sell you this article. Thanks.
Used Cruel Restaurant AKA Zankoku Hanten
Rating: Not Rated (Adult Themes. See above)
Language: Japanese
Subtitle: English
Region: All Regions. Region Free.
Run Time: Aprox. 75 Mins
Plot: Kawano gave us the best-named movie of 2007 with Attack Girls Swim Team vs. the Undead, and now he's back with a similarly stupid, but kinda fun, movie that covers ground that we've seen about a dozen times before (assuming you like this sort of black comedy). There's Delicatessen, there's The Untold Story, there's The Green Butchers, there's Dumplings, etc., etc., ad nauseam, and now there's Cruel Restaurant. What is it about dumplings, in particular, that causes Asian filmmakers to think "cannibalism"? (Maybe that's why I'm so fond of the stupid, delicious little things...)
Rising softcore star Mihiro (Yo-Yo Sexy Girl Cop) stars as Ms. Lin, the owner of a hot new dumpling restaurant. The restaurant's patrons keep coming back for more, to the point where some of them start acting strange. And then the strange ones begin disappearing... when two reporters meet at the restaurant by chance, they compare notes and come to the conclusion that Lin is using the meat from the missing patrons in her dumplings. The rest of the movie alternates between the reporters (and a friendly cop) trying to prove this to be true and Lin's own hassles, which include (but are not limited to, don't want to spoil the surprise) a very persistent would-be apprentice and every man she sees wanting to sleep with her.
Yes, you've seen it all before, but the script is witty (in that softcore sort of way), Mihiro is easier on the eyes than anyone I can recall seeing in a softcore film since Laura Gemser, and the twist at the end? I'm not one for calling the Japanese "staid", but there are some places they just don't go. And they go at least one of them in the second-to-last scene. I just about fell out of my chair laughing. It's not deathless cinema by any means, but it's a fun little flick, and at just seventy-four minutes, it won't even take too much time out of your day.
Japanese With English Subtitles Only.
* No Returns
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* Prices Do Not Include Shipping
If you're interested, please PM me with your e-mail address and we can discuss details like shipping costs.
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Keywords:
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Cruel Restaurant Zankoku Hanten DVD Live Action
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