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Mood:
- OffbeatHumorousMind Bending
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Plot:
- Human SpiritCaptivityIsolationBreakoutAthlete and TrainerAmbition
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Genres:
- ComedyForeign
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Time/Period:
- Contemporary21st Century
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Place:
- AsiaJapanMexicoLatin America
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Humor:
- Slapstick
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Style:
- Multiple StoriesTwists and TurnsSurreal
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Attitudes:
- Not SeriousFantastic
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Shinboru, 2009
Japanese, Spanish
Japan
Profile of Shinboru
The mood of Shinboru is offbeat, mind bending, and humorous. The plot centers around captivity, isolation, and the human spirit. It features slapstick humor. Shinboru is a foreign and comedy movie. Stylistically, it involves multiple stories, is surreal, and involves twists and turns. In approach, it is not serious and fantastical. Shinboru is set in Mexico, Japan, and South America. It happens in contemporary times.
Summary of Shinboru
A Japanese man wakes up alone in a brightly illuminated white room with no windows or doors. When he presses a mysteriously phallic protuberance that appears on one wall, a pink toothbrush materializes from nowhere, clattering to the floor and setting in motion a genuinely bizarre chain of events. Soon the imprisoned man is engaged in absurd and hilarious attempts to escape the gleaming room, releasing random objects from the walls, creating a life sized mouse trap game in which a rope, a toilet plunger and an earthenware jug full of sushi might just be the keys to his escape. Meanwhile, in a dusty town, a green masked Mexican wrestler known as Escargot Man prepares for an important match. His family gathers around him, worried about his seeming impassivity before battle.
Details
| Language: | Japanese, Spanish |
| Country: | Japan |
| Release date: | 12 September 2009 |
| Runtime: | 93 min |
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