Big Man Japan

Director Hitoshi Matsumoto weaves this darkly comic mockumentary about a Japanese giant who continues the long-standing family tradition of facing off against Tokyo's most formidable monsters. Constantly caught in the middle of everyone's battles, Daisato finds his sincere efforts to keep the peace ...more

If there were an Oscar for Weirdest Film, the award would almost certainly go to Big Man Japan, a mockumentary-style parody of the kaiju genre starring and directed by famed Japanese comic Hitoshi Matsumoto. See Big Man Japan with a crowd of otaku, and the shock waves of laughter may prove as powerful as Godzilla's trademark atomic breath; check it out with a group of average movie nerds who know the tropes, and odds are you'll be in hysterics by the time it winds to its inexplicable, yet ...more