The Chicken

5.5
  • Genre: Drama
  • Run time: 14 min
  • Premiere: 2020. August 8.

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.

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Art

Heather Yancey

Set Decoration

Jane Ji

Production Design

Camera

Bill Kirstein

Director of Photography

Costume & Make-Up

Heather Yancey

Costume Design

Directing

Neo Sora

Director

Editing

Production

Jane Ji

Producer

Albert Tholen

Producer

Kenta Koga

Producer

Jackson Segars

Producer

Aiko Masubuchi

Producer

Writing

Naoya Shiga

Short Story

Neo Sora

Screenplay