The Chicken

5.4

14m

2020

Drama

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.

Starring

Junshin Soga, Taiju Nakane, Sandra Maren Schneider, Alan Chen, Jordan Rodriguez, Florian Koenigsberger, Kenta Koga, Nuuria Berg, Daniel Witkin, Karin Elgai

Directed By

Neo Sora