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Free Kitchen

2014 · 80 min

An unsettling, deadpan domestic oddity that quietly crawls under your skin while you squirm at its strange humour.

Directed by
Kentaro Nakamura
Genres
Horror, Comedy
Starring
Toya Morita, Mayo Onuki, Kiyomi Ensou
Overview
The story is of a quirky mother and son who live in a modern Japanese, urban setting. The mother Kyoko has been long feeding human meat to her introverted teenage son, Mitsuo, who can now tell the sex and nationality of the meat he is eating. One day at the supermarket, Kyoko finds herself picking up the wallet of another housewife, Kanno. Kanno urges Kyoko to accept a token of gratitude but Kyoko declines. Kanno finds the stubborn refusal disturbing.

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Directed by
Kentaro Nakamura
Genres
Horror, Comedy
Starring
Toya Morita, Mayo Onuki, Kiyomi Ensou
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Tone
  • darkstrength 3 of 3
  • absurdstrength 2 of 3
  • eeriestrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • madness
  • family
  • obsession
  • isolation
  • identity
Places
  • big city
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror7
Humour5
Realism6
Romance1
Tension5
Darkness8
Complexity5
Emotional weight5

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Details

Genres
horror, comedy
Directed by
Kentaro Nakamura
Written by
Kentaro Nakamura
Starring
Toya Morita, Mayo Onuki, Kiyomi Ensou, Tsubasa Kikuchi
Runtime
80 min
Country
Japan
Languages
Japanese

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