The Gesuidouz

Kenichi Ugana’s delightfully deadpan comedy about the creative process follows a misfit horror-themed punk band as they retreat to rural Japan to find inspiration.

Rising cult filmmaker Kenichi Ugana’s offbeat, lo-fi The Gesuidouz is the story of a misfit horror-themed band that retreats to rural Japan to write the greatest punk rock anthem in the world. Hanako has a dream: her band The Gesuidouz will perform at Glastonbury Festival and that, just like her heroes Jim Morrison and Kurt Cobain, she will die at 27. With a year left until her deadline, Hanako makes a desperate appeal with a power drill to her apathetic manager’s head, and he offers the band a remote farm for creating that bonafide hit.

“Ugana’s film is an ultimately rather sweet look at the creative process through a punk-rock–fueled, often bizarre but always energetic lens. Fright-fare fans will have a ball with the name-dropping and other related horror cinema references.” – Joseph Perry, Gruesome Magazine