Uncle's Paradise (2006)
おじさん天国
This surrealistic comedy follows the life of Haruo Maekawa, a young man who makes a living catching squid. Haruo is obsessed with catching a legendary giant squid rumored to live in Tokyo Bay. Haruo's uncle Takashi, fallen on hard times, comes to stay with his nephew until he can get back on his feet. Uncle Takashi is addicted to energy drinks, and seduces any woman in sight, including Haruo's girlfriend Rika. While praying at a Shintō shrine, Uncle Takashi is bitten in the scrotum by a poisonous snake and dies. The uncle is destined to spend the afterlife in Hell unless his nephew and girlfriend can rescue him from the King of Hell.
- Date of release
- 2006-09-18
- TMDB
- 4.7 / 10 (12)
- Runtime
- 1h 4m
- Genres
- Fantasy, Drama, Comedy
- Director
- Shinji Imaoka
Casting
- Minami Aoyama — Rika Kamiyama
- Mutsuo Yoshioka — Haruo Maekawa
- Shirō Shimomoto — Takeshi Takayama
- Masataka Matsubara — Kouichi Iwata
- Rinako Hirasawa — Woman in Uncle Takashi's dream
- Harumi Ogawa — Kyōko Oda
- Daisuke Iijima — Maruyama
- Mari Yamaguchi — Woman in Hell
- Akira Sawada — Woman in Hell
- Hiroshi Sato — Woman in Hell
- Takeshi Itō — Enma, King of Hell
- Yumeka Sasaki — Angel of Hell with White Face and Third Eye
Interesting facts
Uncle's Paradise aka Mighty Extreme Woman is a 2006 Japanese pink film directed by Shinji Imaoka.
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