Overview - Uncle's Paradise

Overview

This surrealistic comedy follows the life of Haruo Maekawa, a young man who makes a living catching squid. Haruo is obsessed with catching a legendary giant squid rumored to live in Tokyo Bay. Haruo's uncle Takashi, fallen on hard times, comes to stay with his nephew until he can get back on his feet. Uncle Takashi is addicted to energy drinks, and seduces any woman in sight, including Haruo's girlfriend Rika. While praying at a Shintō shrine, Uncle Takashi is bitten in the scrotum by a poisonous snake and dies. The uncle is destined to spend the afterlife in Hell unless his nephew and girlfriend can rescue him from the King of Hell.

Cast

• Name: Minami Aoyama

  Character: Rika Kamiyama

  Popularity: 0.4379

  

• Name: Mutsuo Yoshioka

  Character: Haruo Maekawa

  Popularity: 0.9187

  

• Name: Shirō Shimomoto

  Character: Takeshi Takayama

  Popularity: 0.6803

  

• Name: Masataka Matsubara

  Character: Kouichi Iwata

  Popularity: 0.1093

  

• Name: Rinako Hirasawa

  Character: Woman in Uncle Takashi's dream

  Popularity: 0.6665

  

• Name: Harumi Ogawa

  Character: Kyōko Oda

  Popularity: 0.1271

  

• Name: Daisuke Iijima

  Character: Maruyama

  Popularity: 0.7132

  

• Name: Mari Yamaguchi

  Character: Woman in Hell

  Popularity: 0.4037