Moeru butsuzô ningen

The Director; Ujicha (unsure of his surname/firstname); has indeed delivered an incredibly surreal tale of Buddhist statues fused with humans (!!); a young girl trying to save her family and the evil overlord; Enju.

Enju misleads our heroine and lead protagonist; Beniko; played by Nao Hanai (who also wrote the pop music soundtrack; see her Soundcloud); into this dark and surreal world of Budhist statues fused; yes fused; with humans. She discovers her parents (shock!) are one of these fusions and were created by Enju's (Dr Evil for Yokai!) evil science when staying at his shrine/palace on misleading humanitarian grounds!

Then the storyline takes a further dark and dramatic twist; perhaps which one would expect from a Takashi Miike film or a Sion Sono movie.

Utter insanity follows. It's dark humour and excesively surreal and violent. It's utterly bizarre; unique; horrific and sheer crazy! I don't want to ruin the story or the concept. You just have to watch with a very open mind!

Cinematography is great. Art direction is technical and astounding despite the limitations and the low-budget. Audio is fab. Real punchy pop-music and deep electronica soundtrack. It's a box-set on Third Windows' Films with 'Violance Voyager' bundled together as well as a couple of short movies on a 2-disc Blu-ray set.

I'm very happy with the movie. It's hard-to-describe as in my 42 years of watching movies; especially arthouse; I have never seen something so bizarre and strange. I thoroughly recommend it and it's a really well-made movie.

Unfortunately for some reason a lot of Asian films are really underrated on IMDB and I am not sure why. Please watch them. They will blow your mind!