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The Chicken

Newly Added • 13m

Directed by Neo Sora • 2020 • United States
Starring Junshin Soga, Taiju Nakane, Sandra Maren Schneider

After mishandling a medical emergency he witnesses on the streets of New York City, a young Japanese immigrant cannot bring himself to butcher the live chicken he bought for dinner. Adapted from a short story by Naoya Shiga, Neo Sora’s THE CHICKEN expands on the ways that structural violence insidiously permeates daily life.

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