“Nothing can quite prepare you for the sheer macabre strangeness.”
—The Guardian

“An existential dive into the horror of the human psyche.”
—Japanese Cinema Archive

Novelist Kōbō Abe adapts his own “unfilmable” novel, which becomes, in the hands of director Hiroshi Teshigahara (THE FACE OF ANOTHER), one of the strangest and greatest of all Japanese films.