The Warped Forest

West Coast premiere of the high-definition digital transfer of the original HDCAM tapes!

Part of the Hanabi Film Festival 2026. Limited festival passes available while supplies last.

Doors open at 8:30 PM; film at 9:00 PM.

Mostly unseen since its 2011 festival circuit debut, director Shunichirô Miki dives into the realm of the absurd solo in this pseudo-sequel to The Funky Forest. Filled with the same bizarre aura of the earlier, longer film, it’s an essential part of the Japanese millennial new wave of radical, hallucinogenic humor, delirious dream logic and creeping paranoia blended into the strangest of cinematic brews—complete with naked wood nymphs that grow pornographic fruit, furry nipple sucking animals and kaiju-sized humans.

Screened in Japanese with English subtitles.