Funky Forest

Funky Forest
DVD cover
Directed byKatsuhito Ishii
Hajime Ishimine
Shunichiro Miki
Written byKatsuhito Ishii
Hajime Ishimine
Shunichiro Miki
Produced byNorihisa Harada
StarringTadanobu Asano
Susumu Terajima
Ryō Kase
Rinko Kikuchi
Mariko Takahashi
Hideaki Anno
CinematographyKosuke Matsushima
Hiroshi Machida
Music byMidorikawa Tooru
Distributed byAOI Promotion
Release dates
  • 22 October 2005 (2005-10-22) (Hawaii)
  • February 2006 (2006-02) (YIFFF)
Running time
150 minutes
CountryJapan
LanguagesJapanese
Mandarin
English

Funky Forest: The First Contact (ナイスの森 THE FIRST CONTACT, Naisu no Mori THE FIRST CONTACT, lit. "Nice Forest: The First Contact"), also known as Funky Forest: The First Encounter or simply Funky Forest, is a 2005 Japanese surrealist anthology science fiction comedy film co-written and co-directed by Katsuhito Ishii, Hajime Ishimine and Shunichiro Miki. It is composed of several storylines, some of which coincide, most of which are comical.[1]

  1. ^ "Cinema Strikes Back". Archived from the original on 3 May 2008. Retrieved 23 March 2008.