If you loved The Taste of Tea, try Funky Forest: The First Contact

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

What they share

Both films are directed by Katsuhito Ishii, and they both carry the surreal mood tag, and they sit in Comedy / Fantasy territory. If that's the register that drew you to The Taste of Tea, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What Funky Forest: The First Contact is

Here's a film that certainly commits to its own oddness. Guitar Brother and his actual brothers spend some time in a forest. It's not entirely clear what anyone is doing or why, and maybe that's the point?

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