Symbol

(2009)

★ 6.7 IMDb · 141 votes

Genres: Comedy, Fantasy

Year: 2009

Runtime: 93 мин

Country: Japan

Director: 松本人志

Cast: 松本人志, David Quintero, Carlos C. Torres, Luis Accinelli, Lilian Tapia, 王菀之, Adriana Fricke, Salam Diagne, Arkangel De La Muerte, Matcho Panpu

Plot

A Japanese man in polka-dot pajamas wakes up in a room with no doors. Meanwhile, a middle-aged Mexican wrestler prepares for his most challenging match ever.

A 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, clattering to the floor and setting in motion a genuinely bizarre chain of events. 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. Meanwhile, in a dusty town, a green masked Mexican wrestler known as Escargot Man prepares for an important match. His family gathers around him, worried about his seeming impassivity before battle.