Lumberjack the Monster
{{Short description|2023 film directed by Takashi Miike}}
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| image = Lumberjack the Monster (film).jpg
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| native_name ={{Infobox name module|Japanese|Kaibutsu no kikori}}
| director = Takashi Miike{{cite web |last1=Ide |first1=Wendy |title='Lumberjack The Monster': Tokyo Review |url=https://www.screendaily.com/reviews/lumberjack-the-monster-tokyo-review/5187270.article |website=Screen Daily |access-date=31 May 2024}}
| writer =
| screenplay = Hiroyoshi Koiwai{{cite web |title=Lumberjack The Monster |url=https://sitgesfilmfestival.com/en/film/2023/lumberjack-monster |website=Sitges Film Festival |access-date=31 May 2024}}
| story =
| based_on = {{Based on|Lumberjack the Monster|Mayusuke Kurai}}
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| cinematography = Nobuyasu Kita
| editing = Naoichiro Sagara
| music = Koji Endo
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| distributor = Warner Bros. Pictures
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{{Film date|2023|10|13|Sitges Film Festival|ref1=|2023|12|01|Japan|ref2={{cite news |last1=Hadfield |first1=James |title='Lumberjack the Monster' will talk you to death |url=https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2023/11/30/film/lumberjack-the-monster/ |access-date=31 May 2024 |agency=The Japan Times}}}}
| runtime = 118 minutes
| country = Japan
| language = Japanese
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{{nihongo|Lumberjack the Monster|怪物の木こり|Kaibutsu no kikori}} is a 2023 Japanese horror film directed by Takashi Miike based on the 2019 Mayusuke Kurai novel of the same name. The film stars Kazuya Kamenashi as a lawyer seeking violent revenge on a masked serial killer.
Plot
The police investigate a series of murders and discover a connection to a group of children abducted and implanted with neurochips 31 years earlier.
Cast
- Kazuya Kamenashi as Akira Ninomiya
- Nanao as forensic profiler Ranko Toshiro
- Kiyohiko Shibukawa as a detective who works with Ranko
- Shido Nakamura as a murder suspect
- Riho Yoshioka as Akira's fiancée
- Shota Sometani as Sugitani, a doctor who is allied with Akira
Release
Lumberjack the Monster first screened on October 13, 2023, in the Òrbita section of the Sitges Film Festival. The film debuted in Japan on October 26, 2023, at the Tokyo International Film Festival, followed by a wide release on December 1, 2023.{{cite news |last1=Ntim |first1=Zac |title=Tokyo Film Festival Sets 2023 Lineup Including 20 World Premieres And New Wim Wenders Short |url=https://deadline.com/2023/09/tokyo-film-festival-2023-lineup-world-premieres-wim-wenders-1235557289/ |access-date=31 May 2024 |agency=Deadline}}{{cite news |last1=Hadfield |first1=James |title='Lumberjack the Monster' will talk you to death |url=https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2023/11/30/film/lumberjack-the-monster/ |access-date=31 May 2024 |agency=The Japan Times}} The film screened in North America on May 6, 2024, in conjunction with the Tribeca Festival Escape from Tribeca program ahead of a Netflix release on June 1, 2024.{{cite web |title=Lumberjack the Monster |url=https://japansociety.org/events/lumberjack-the-monster/ |website=Japan Society |access-date=31 May 2024}}{{cite web |last1=Navarro |first1=Megan |title='Lumberjack the Monster' – Takashi Miike's Serial Killer vs Psychopath Thriller Heads to Netflix This Summer |url=https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/3808306/lumberjack-the-monster-release-date-netflix-summer/ |website=Bloody Disgusting |date=11 April 2024 |access-date=31 May 2024}}
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