Lumberjack the Monster (怪物の木こり, Kaibutsu no kikori) is a 2023 Japanese horror film directed by Takashi Miike based on the 2019 Mayusuke Kurai novel of the same name. The film stars Kazuya Kamenashi as a lawyer seeking violent revenge on a masked serial killer.
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Plot
The police investigate a series of murders and discover a connection to a group of children abducted and implanted with neurochips 31 years earlier.
Cast
Kazuya Kamenashi as Akira Ninomiya
Nanao as forensic profiler Ranko Toshiro
Kiyohiko Shibukawa as a detective who works with Ranko
Shido Nakamura as a murder suspect
Riho Yoshioka as Akira's fiancée
Shota Sometani as Sugitani, a doctor who is allied with Akira
Release
Lumberjack the Monster first screened on October 13, 2023, in the Òrbita section of the Sitges Film Festival. The film debuted in Japan on October 26, 2023, at the Tokyo International Film Festival, followed by a wide release on December 1, 2023. The film screened in North America on May 6, 2024, in conjunction with the Tribeca Festival Escape from Tribeca program ahead of a Netflix release on June 1, 2024.