An Eater

Snowy restaurant booth. An old man's gnawing. A young waitress calmly serves him cooked human flesh. Soon, she, too, is forced to eat the forbidden meat. Obayashi's early horror short is one of cinema's strangest meals.

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Nobuhiko Obayashi directed An Eater in 1963. See Nobuhiko Obayashi's full filmography, where to start with Nobuhiko Obayashi, or where to go after you've seen everything by Nobuhiko Obayashi.

An Eater was released in 1963 (JA original-language production), with a runtime of 24 minutes.