The Warped Forest

The Warped Forest

2011 · 82 min · ★ 5.2 · Comedy

Settle into your chair and be transported to a place both familiar and alien; where a giant shop-girl can barely fit in her store, there's a weird green pod in every bedroom, and terrifying wood nymphs provide a heartbroken woman with the anatomically correct fruit everyone seems to covet. In the end we are left, like Alice, with the Red King's conundrum: are we dreaming them or are they dreaming us?

Directed by Shunichiro Miki · Written by Shunichiro Miki

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