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Trailer - Symbol

Posted by Kevin Ouellette on August 1, 2009 7:50pm EDT (3 years ago)

Filed under: Comedy, Future releases, Trailer Updates

Leave it to Hitoshi Matsumoto to take a really confusing teaser for his latest film, Symbol, and extend it out to an even more confusing trailer. Self-indulge much? I still have no clue what this one is about. Apparently it involves a guy who breaks out of a prison of some sort and meets a lot of foreigners. The entire project is still shrouded in mystery and Japanese movie sites aren't listing legitimate plot info other than that. I have no insight into why a fat guy is barking at dogs or cherub penii are popping out of walls, but if anyone has any info feel free to enlighten us. Source: Official website Update: Consider us enlightened. Don at Quiet Earth noticed this synopsis on the film's IMDb listing:

A Japanese man wakes up alone in a brightly illuminated white room with no windows or doors. When he presses a mysteriously phallic protuberance that appears on one wall, a pink toothbrush materializes from nowhere, clattering to the floor and setting in motion a genuinely bizarre chain of events. Soon the imprisoned man is engaged in absurd and hilarious attempts to escape the gleaming room, releasing random objects from the walls, creating a life sized mouse trap game in which a rope, a toilet plunger and an earthenware jug full of sushi might just be the keys to his escape. Meanwhile, in a dusty town, a green masked Mexican wrestler known as Escargot Man prepares for an important match. His family gathers around him, worried about his seeming impassivity before battle. I'm still as confused as ever, but at least it's something.


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