Funky Forest: The First Contact
Oct 25 2005
•3h 30m
•Comedy, Science Fiction, Fantasy
An outrageous collection of surreal, short attention span non-sequiturs largely revolving around Guitar Brother, his randy older sibling, and the pair's portly Caucasian brother.
Cast
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Susumu Terajima
Katsuichi Tanaka
Tadanobu Asano
Masaru Tanaka
Chizuru Ikewaki
Ichiko
Ryo Kase
Takefumi
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