SURVIVE STYLE 5

Directorial debut feature of acclaimed Japanese commercials director Gen Sekiguchi, intertwining a quintet of bizarre and seemingly unrelated storylines that eventually collide. A homicidal husband murders his wife and buries her body in the woods, but she refuses to stay dead and repeatedly returns from beyond the grave to beat him up using an imaginative variety of different methods, from breathing fire to launching her limbs at him missile-style; a female advertising executive arranges the assassination of her tiresome celebrity boyfriend and constantly dreams up bizarre TV commercials inspired by those around her; having won tickets for his family to go and see the hottest hypnotist show in town, a middle-aged businessman is left stranded and convinced he is a chicken when a ruthless British hitman with a penchant for existential interrogation and his Japanese partner fatally interrupt the hypnotist's performance; and finally, a trio of incompetent burglars cruises the suburbs looking for amusement, a fast buck and answers to questions regarding their sexuality.