Junk World(HKAFF2025)

The result of seven years’ hard work, Junk Head was a bizarre stop-motion futuristic fantasy that interior designer and self-taught filmmaker Takahide Hori made almost entirely by himself. Thanks to its success as a cult film, Hori continues his planned trilogy with a prequel that is far more ambitious, though just as grotesque and eccentric as its predecessor. Set over 1,000 years before Junk Head, Junk World sees humans and Mulligans – an artificial life form that revolted against human rule after achieving consciousness – creating an uneasy alliance as they fight a time-travelling battle against a radical faction of Mulligans.

Toronto International Film Festival