From 28 February 2024

Monster Kaibutsu

Hirokazu Koreeda / Japan / 2023 / 127 min / Slovene subtitles, Japanese

Awarded the Best Screenplay award at the Cannes Film Festival, this is a film by the great film humanist Hirokazu Koreeda (Shoplifters), where he employs the ultimate mastery in juggling with our beliefs and expectations. Monster is the last film to feature original music by maestro Ryuichi Sakamoto who passed away last year.

cast Saori Mugino, Michitoshi Hori, Minato Mugino, Yori Hoshikawa, Makiko Fushimi

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The DVD of the film is available in our Bookshop. (List of available DVDs in Slovene only)

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