Film

Dumbeast

2009 · 1h 46m · Comedy

IMDb

6.6

How hard is it to kill an idiot? Just ask Kudo Kankuro! The acclaimed screenwriter brings his 2004 Kunio Kishida-winning stage play Donju (a.k.a. Dumb Animal) to the big screen in all its wacky tragicomedic glory. The one and only Asano Tadanobu sports a seriously nerdy bowl haircut to play the leading role of simple-minded novelist Dekogawa who has mysteriously disappeared. Dekogawa wrote an autobiography about his youth that reveals not only his past, but also some of his childhood friends’ best-forgotten secrets. In order to keep the skeletons in the closet, these buddies of yesteryear try to silence him permanently. But no matter how hard they try to kill Dekogawa, he just keeps coming back – because he’s simply too thickheaded to die!

Tadanobu Asano

Dekogawa

Kazuki Kitamura

Chi Edajima

Aimi Satsukawa

Nora

Yusuke Santamaria

Okamoto

Yoko Maki

Shizuka

Yoko Minamino

Mama Junko

Takao Handa

Hirotaro Honda

Akio Iwahara

Kyusaku Shimada

Jun Tsuchiuchi

• Mr. HideDirector
• Kankuro KudoWriter
• Shôichi AtôDirector of Photography
• Toru MidorikawaOriginal Music Composer

Dumb Animal [鈍獣] Teaser Trailer

Release date

May 16, 2009

Status

Released

Original language

Japanese

Runtime

1h 46m

Genres

Comedy