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The Restaurant of Many Orders

The Restaurant of Many Orders

1991 · 19 min · ★ 6.4 · Animation, Fantasy, Horror

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?

Directed by Tadanari Okamoto · Written by Tadanari Okamoto

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