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Dec 12, 2018 · Symbol: Directed by Hitoshi Matsumoto. With Hitoshi Matsumoto, David Quintero, Luis Accinelli, Lilian Tapia. A man wakes up in a white room empty other than buttons on the walls, he must find out which button to push to get what he wants.
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- Comedy, Fantasy, Mystery
- Hitoshi Matsumoto
- 2018-12-12
Symbol (しんぼる, Shinboru) is a 2009 Japanese surrealist comedy film directed and starring by Hitoshi Matsumoto. It was nominated for the Asian Film Awards in the categories of Best Actor and Best Visual Effects. It has not received a U.S. release.
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- Hitoshi Matsumoto
- 93 min
Soon the imprisoned man is engaged in absurd and hilarious attempts to escape the gleaming room, releasing random objects from the walls, creating a life sized mouse trap game in which a rope, a toilet plunger and an earthenware jug full of sushi might just be the keys to his escape.
Sep 9, 2019 · Symbol is a Japanese comedy film released in 2009. It was directed by Hitoshi Matsumoto, who had a minor international breakthrough with the movie Big Man Japan in 2007. Symbol never got much attention in Japan, but gathered a cult following overseas.
Oct 20, 2022 · Explore the 2009 movie "Symbol" with an English explanation and subtitles, offering a unique blend of two parallel stories.
- 18 min
- 7.7K
- Starz Recapped
Symbol In the central tale, a Japanese man wakes up alone in a brightly illuminated white room with no windows or doors. When he presses a mysteriously phallic protuberance that appears on one wall, a pink toothbrush materializes from nowhere, setting in motion a very strange series of events.
