The Restaurant of Many Orders

The Restaurant of Many Orders

Directed by Tadanari Okamoto

Produced by IMAGICA

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?

Questions people ask

  • Is The Restaurant of Many Orders scary? Yes, very. More frightening than 95% of films.

  • Does The Restaurant of Many Orders end with hope? No. Less hopeful than 91% of films.

  • Is The Restaurant of Many Orders easy watching? Not especially. Less comforting than 74% of films.

  • Is The Restaurant of Many Orders violent? Somewhat. More violent than 68% of films.

  • Is The Restaurant of Many Orders sad? About average. Almost exactly mid-range.

These describe how the film comes across, measured across the whole film and compared with other well-known films. They are not a content list — nothing here was counted or checked scene by scene, so for age-suitability or specific content use a classification board or a dedicated content-warning service.

47/ 100

Cinnamon Score

How much this film gives you that nothing else will, and whether it delivers.

Familiar shape, done well.

Rarity73

How unlike any other film this one feels

Surprise32

How much more it delivers than it promises

Love40

How much audiences actually like it

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Same territory, far fewer people have seen it.

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