The Restaurant of Many Orders

The Restaurant of Many Orders

199119 min6.4 / 10

A surreal, darkly ironic fable about predator and prey that uses a mysterious restaurant as a trap to explore themes of consumption and moral reversal.

A short film based on a story by Japanese writer Kenji Miyazawa in which two young British hunters get lost in the woods and discover a strange restaurant. Are the hunters about to discover how it feels to be hunted?

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