Yuta is bringing his family's offering to a local shrine, consisting of an octopus, squid and crab, when someone steals the seafood from him and, almost immediately thereafter, giant seafood monsters arrive to wreak havoc in Tokyo. His arch-rival, Hikoma, not only steals his formula for creating large creatures out of small ones (to solve the problem of hunger), but also steals his childhood sweetheart Nana. But when Takolla (the octopus), Ikalla (the squid) and Kanilla (the crab) turn out to not only wreak havoc but to taste delicious when bits of them are broken off and cooked, Yuta, Nana and Hikoma must team up with the Seafood Monster Attack Team (SMAT) to defeat the creatures, once and for all....
Yes, this is quite as silly as it sounds; at a short 84 minutes, it packs in a bunch of visual hilarity - especially the "monsters," who are gigantic puppet-type thingies that make the viewer laugh on sight! Turns out that the father of director Minoru Kawasaki was himself a fugu chef, so the seafood preparations are no doubt completely spot on. With a charismatic and not-afraid-to-be-silly cast, and plenty of goofy special effects, this is one feast of a film!
Yes, this is quite as silly as it sounds; at a short 84 minutes, it packs in a bunch of visual hilarity - especially the "monsters," who are gigantic puppet-type thingies that make the viewer laugh on sight! Turns out that the father of director Minoru Kawasaki was himself a fugu chef, so the seafood preparations are no doubt completely spot on. With a charismatic and not-afraid-to-be-silly cast, and plenty of goofy special effects, this is one feast of a film!