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First Look: Takashi Miike’s ‘LUMBERJACK THE MONSTER’ set to stream on Netflix

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A psychopathic lawyer finds himself targeted by a serial killer — and decides to fight back in a battle to the death between a serial killer and a psychopath.

  The first look at legendary provocative Japanese filmmaker Takashi Miike‘s horror thriller, LUMBERJACK THE MONSTER. The film will begin streaming on June 1, 2024 exclusively on Netflix.

Akira Ninomiya is a remorseless lawyer who doesn’t hesitate to eliminate anyone who stands in his way. One night he is brutally attacked by an unknown assailant wearing a “monster mask.” Although he miraculously survives the assault, he becomes fixated on finding the attacker and getting revenge.

Director Takashi Miike.
Director Takashi Miike.

A special premiere screening will be held in New York City ahead of its Netflix streaming date  on May 6th at Japan Society. The event is sponsored by Tribeca Film Festival‘s ‘Escape from Tribeca‘ program. Tickets can be purchased HERE. See you there!

Peep the blood-drenched and action-packed trailer below —

Christian A. Morán
Christian A. Morán has been working on feature films, shorts, music videos and in documentaries, for which he won an award in 2002 at the Aurora Film Festival. As a Production Manager and Senior Editor at Media Blasters Inc., he has worked on and revived numerous Cult and Horror titles such as Lucio Fulci's Zombie 2, Takashi Miike's Ichi the Killer and One Missed Call. He also worked on post-production for Fever Dreams' feature, "Shadow: Dead Riot", starring Tony Todd of Candyman and worked on "Death Trance" directed by Yuji Shimomura and starring Versus' Tak Sakaguchi. Christian has also worked on animated titles including Invader Zim, Berserk, Giant Robo, Samurai Deeper Kyo, 12 Kingdoms and Voltron: Defender of the Universe. He also produced and edited a promotion video for a branch of The United Nations called Alliance of Civilizations which featured President Barack Obama. Currently, he is working with legendary producer Roger Corman and Code Red DVD, who handle titles from MGM (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). At this time he is producing and directing his own films such as Silentious (2013), Flawed God (2014), Halloween Treat (2014) and the award winning film, Let's Play Dead Girl (2015).

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