Junk Head

Junk Head

2DCS/ES15
Director:Takahide Hori
Cast:Takahide Hori, Hamdullah Saat
Premiere:10. March 2022
Length:99 minutes
Genre:Scifi, Animated

Director: Takahide Hori  •  Cast: Takahide Hori, Hamdullah Saat

If Jan Švankmajer were Japanese and considered making something like Sexmission, it might have resulted in a film similar to Junk Head. This animated piece by debutant Takahide Hori is a feature-length expansion of the sci-fi short of the same name, which takes us into a post-apocalyptic future. In it, mankind has finally achieved its longed-for immortality through genetic experimentation. But it has paid the price in fertility, and now faces extinction. The solution may lie in a small underground civilization of clones who broke free from humans long ago and seem to be able to bring forth little baby clones. The human government therefore sends a scout to their weird world to find out how things really are and, consequently, save the human race.

Length: 99 min

Year: 2021
Local premiere date: 10. March 2022
World premiere date: 26. March 2021

Country of origin:

  • Japan

Director: Takahide Hori  •  Cast: Takahide Hori, Hamdullah Saat

If Jan Švankmajer were Japanese and considered making something like Sexmission, it might have resulted in a film similar to Junk Head. This animated piece by debutant Takahide Hori is a feature-length expansion of the sci-fi short of the same name, which takes us into a post-apocalyptic future. In it, mankind has finally achieved its longed-for immortality through genetic experimentation. But it has paid the price in fertility, and now faces extinction. The solution may lie in a small underground civilization of clones who broke free from humans long ago and seem to be able to bring forth little baby clones. The human government therefore sends a scout to their weird world to find out how things really are and, consequently, save the human race.

Year: 2021
Local premiere date: 10. March 2022
World premiere date: 26. March 2021

Country of origin:

  • Japan