Calamari Wrestler


Calamari Wrestler

An Image from the film

(Ika Resuraa)

Kawasaki Minoru

Japan, 2004, 95 mins

Subtitled

Part of Fanomenon

Buy Tickets

Hyde Park Picture House
11th November • 3pm

If you thought nothing could surprise you anymore about Japanese cinema, then experience the films of Kawasaki Minoru (Executive Koala and The World Sinks Except Japan also showing at Leeds). A championship wrestling match pits Koji Taguchi against Crush Volcano, the latter no match for Koji's signature move, the Torture Ring Strangler. Koji beams as he clutches the Champion Belt, only to have it snatched away by a mysterious new
challenger in the ring—a giant squid! A giant squid, in fact, who not only evades Koji's key attack, but destroys him with a Northern Light Suplex! Koji's fiancée Miyako watches tearfully, though there's something about this Calamari Wrestler that seems familiar to her...

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Screening Details

  • Hyde Park Picture House • 11th November • 3pm • £6.00/£4.50


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