Executive Koala (2005)

Executive Koala aka Koara Kacho (2005)
written by Minoru Kawasaki & Masakazu Migita
directed by Minoru Kawasaki


Only if this cover was the way the movie was shot, a real hapless koala with an unknown brutal killing streak within. I mean look at the goddamn Koala, it makes me want to kill its so damn cute.

However, formalities aside this dull release from japan never quite lives up to what kind of this movie could be, its about a 6 foot tall Koala who is executive of a pickle factory which is merging with fellow conglomarate Kimchee. All the while cryptic messages are appearing every where regarding his past, people (i mean various human like animals) appear and Tamura our hero koala is suffering from black outs. This all leads up to secret identities and stacks of bodies and weird ass ending straight out of an anime.

In fact this would've been alot cooler if it was animated, in story this predominately riffs on Ichi the Killer, but sometimes borders in David Lynch land of weirdness and never regains full control of its audience. I was disappointed, hell I don't regret watching the flick though. Its always good to see a guy in an animal suit movie, however, I've been a little jaded with the whole hypnosis craze going through the foreign markets and there is not enough blood to keep me a returning customer. The reasoning for my rash Ichi comment is, here we have a hero who doesn't remember his past, only his recent successes and through slow reveals finds out who he was, not too dissimilar from Ichi, except Ichi had a body count the size of a two story building and this has a climatic fight scene that takes for ever but is the most interesting set piece.

Also the movie never really gets over its concept stage, tearing and pulling to keep the pace going all the while the viewer is scratching their head going Wha?

Now back to that Koala in the picture, ugh, so fucking cute I could choke a giraffe...