The Restaurant of Many Orders(2002)
Claymation adaptation of Kenji Miyazawa's short tale about a pair of hunters that, after getting lost on the mountains, find themselves looking for a meal at the mysterious Wildcat House restaurant. Faced with endless corridors and doors, and many signs asking them to do a series of confusing actions, the gentlemen start questioning what kind of place the restaurant might actually be behind all these doors.
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Claymation adaptation of Kenji Miyazawa's short tale about a pair of hunters that, after getting lost on the mountains, find themselves looking for a meal at the mysterious Wildcat House restaurant. Faced with endless corridors and doors, and many signs asking them to do a series of confusing actions, the gentlemen start questioning what kind of place the restaurant might actually be behind all these doors.
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2002-07-01
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