| Funky Forest: The First Contact | |
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 Japanese DVD cover | |
| Directed by | Katsuhito Ishii Aniki Shunichiro Miki |
| Produced by | Norihisa Harada Taichi Ito Kazutoshi Wadakura |
| Written by | Katsuhito Ishii Aniki Shunichiro Miki |
| Music by | Aniki Toru Midorikawa Eiko Sakurai |
| Cinematography | Hiroshi Machida Kosuke Matsushima |
| Released | October 22, 2005 (Hawaii Film Festival) |
| Running time | 150 min. |
| Official website | |
| IMDb profile | |
| Trailer | |
Funky Forest: The First Contact (ナイスの森 THE FIRST CONTACT Naisu no mori: The First Contact) is a 2005 Japanese comedy consisting of over 20 vignettes. These vignettes seem completely random at first but by the end of the film each of the characters has some sort of connection to everyone else via one or more mutual acquaintance.
Cast[]
The unpopular with women brothers[]
- Tadanobu Asano ... Masaru Tanaka, guitar brother
- Andrew Alfieri ... Masao Tanaka, Snickers enthusiast
- Susumu Terajima ... Katsuichi Tanaka
Babbling hot spring vixens[]
- Kazue Fukiishi ... Nico, ping pong player
- Chizuru Ikewaki ... Ichiko, tells panda story
- Machiko Ono ... Miico, tells tree story
Notti's dream[]
- Kaho ... Omoro, Volume member
- Anri Ban ... Fusuke, Volume member
- Shihori Kanjiya ... Ngava, Volume member
- Seiji Tanaka ... Ohenro-san, Shikoku Pilgrim
Rest of cast[]
- Aki ... Pero / Anime writer
- Hideaki Anno ... Hasuda, Anime director
- Maya Banno ... Hataru
- Jiro Ito ... Ito, music student
- Ryo Kase ... Takefumi, English teacher
- Hiroe Kato ... Pero the dog's manager
- Rinko Kikuchi ... Ms. Kikuchi, class president
- Shunichiro Miki ... Mole Brother / Miki
- Akiji Minegishi ... Minegishi, dancer at singles picnic
- Aoi Miura ... Aoi, belly button girl
- Kenji Mizuhashi ... Mizuhashi-kun / Piko-Riko
- Ryu Morioka ... Yasuda
- Yoshiyuki Morishita ... Morishita, music teacher
- Kaiji Moriyama ... Dancer with machine gun in Takefumi's dream
- Erika Nishikado ... Notti
- Ken Oyama ... Oyama
- Takahiro Sato ... Takahiro
- Kotaro Shiga ... Minami-chan
- Nana Shimoda ... Nana, tennis player
- Yuji Shimoda ... Tamotsu Yamada
- Yusuke Shirani ... Densha
- Mariko Takahashi ... Yoshiko
- Kazumasa Tanimoto ... Tanimoto
- Ikki Todoroki ... Kazushi Hasuda / Mole Brother
- Kanji Tsuda ... Tsuda, health teacher
- Kozue Kitahara ... Mad Kid 1
- 若林春菜 ... Mad Kid 2
OST[]
The Funky Forest: The First Contact soundtrack was released on the mF247 label on October 27, 2006.
Track List[]
- Opening Theme / Eiko Sakurai
- Guitar Brother / Katsuhito Ishii, Toru Midorikawa, Seiji Tanaka
- Spring Has Come / 二代目ミカ ド天風 ＆ ミカド香奈子
- Theme of the Babbling Hot Spring Vixens / Eiko Sakurai
- Theme of Hot Spring Ping Pong Love / Eiko Sakurai
- Mask Men / Little Tempo， Master Pata (of Dry & Heavy), others
- Mad Kids / Little Tempo， Master Pata (of Dry & Heavy), others
- Gachimāya / Likkle Mai， Little Tempo, others
- Kokorogokoro Doutei / Jiang Xiao Qing, Little Tempo, others
- Bokū / Little Tempo, Compuma (of Smurf Otokogumi)
- Intermission / Eiko Sakurai
- Motenai Otokogokoro Ubawareru Theme / Eiko Sakurai
- Theme of Reconciliation / Eiko Sakurai
- Mine-chan's Theme / Yoshiyuki Morishita
- Notti's Dream #1 / Goma, Little Tempo
- Notti's Dream #2 / Goma， Koji Futaba (of Breath Mark), others
- Captain Harlock / Tadanobu Asano， Andrew Alfieri
- Guitar Brother Theme of Love / Tadanobu Asano
- U.S.O. / Ryo Kase, Erika Nishikado
- Tokyo Dodonpa Daughter / Little Tempo，Master Pata (of Dry & Heavy), others
- Tokyo Dodonpa Daughter (dub version) / Little Tempo, others
- Kokorogokoro Doutei (dub version) / Jiang Xiao Qing, Little Tempo, others
- Sleep Time / Erika Nishikado
External links[]
- Funky Forest: The First Contact review at Eigapedia