“There are, after all, few filmmakers who could take a jellyfish out of a home aquarium and turn it into a metaphor worthy of GODZILLA.”
—The New York Times

“An enchantingly cryptic, ethereally photographed slice of somber surrealism”
—Premiere Magazine

What’s scarier than death? The future. Famed auteur Kiyoshi Kurosawa (CURE) delivers an apocalyptically bleak vision of Japan’s lost generation as two friends (Tadanobu Asano and Jô Odagiri) contend – one, through murder, and the other by caring for a luminous and lethal jellyfish–with a reality of few prospects.