The Chicken

The Chicken

Released on
Drama
Runtime
14 mins
(2 votes)

On an unseasonably hot day in November, Hiro, a Japanese immigrant in New York City, decides to butcher a live chicken for dinner. While showing his visiting cousin Kei around, the pair encounter a medical emergency on the street. After they mishandle the situation and end up causing more harm than good, Hiro cannot bring himself to kill the chicken. Throughout, Kei observes his cousin’s new lifestyle as Hiro and his pregnant wife prepare for their move to Chinatown. As the day wears on, Hiro and Kei’s actions highlight how their lives are complicit in the structural violence that surrounds them.

Cast

  • Taiju Nakane
  • Junshin Soga
  • Sandra Maren Schneider

Director

  • Neo Sora

Producers

  • Aiko Masubuchi
  • Jane Ji
  • Albert Tholen
  • Jackson Segars
  • Kenta Koga
  • João Pereira-Webber

Screenwriter

  • Neo Sora

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