Executive Koala (DVD)

A review of just the film. This is available on region 1 DVD through amazon for about £11. This... well, this is just ludicrous. It's a Japanese film made in 2006. It's sort of a thriller about a businessman who finds himself in the frame for his girlfriend's murder. But the businessman in question, Tamura, is a koala bear. (Or at least, a guy in a business suit with a koala's head and hands, but who's going to quibble?) The director, one Minoru Kawasaki, had previously made a film called Calamari Wrestler, which is apparently exactly what you'd imagine... This is a bizarre one-joke film. Although Tamura's colleagues know he's a koala, they don't ...  Read the complete review