21st Calgary Underground Film Festival

April 18-28, 2024 Globe Cinema

12th CUFF.Docs Documentary Film Festival

November 20-24, 2024 Globe Cinema
sushi girl

CUFF Presents Wasabi Mayhem!

SUSHI GIRL & DEAD SUSHI Double Feature

Date: Tuesday November 20th

Location: Costello's Sports Lounge, 908 - 17th Ave SW
(beside Fuji Yama Sushi - enter off 16 Ave)

Double Feature Admission:
$15 Regular/ $12 CUFF Members
Includes Steam Whistle + Maki Roll

Late Show only: $10 Regular/ $8 CUFF Member (incl. Steam Whistle)

SUSHI GIRL - 7:30pm & DEAD SUSHI - 9:30pm

 
SUSHI GIRL (7:30pm)
USA, 2012, 98 minutes, Directed by Kern Saxton
www.sushigirlmovie.com

Fish has spent six years in jail. Six years alone. Six years keeping his mouth shut about the robbery, about the other men involved. The night he is released, the four men he protected with silence celebrate his freedom with a congratulatory dinner. The meal is a lavish array of sushi, served off the naked body of a beautiful young woman. Sure enough, the four unwieldy thieves can't help but open old wounds in an attempt to find their missing loot.

Featuring an amazing ensemble cast of genre actors including Tony Todd (CANDYMAN), Michael Biehn (TERMINATOR), Danny Trejo (MACHETE), Sonny Chiba (KILL BILL) and Mark Hamil (STAR WARS)... SUSHI GIRL is an intense, violent, Reservoir Dogs inspired crime thriller, that slowly wraps you into the true nature of their reunion and leaves you wondering who will survive.

“A love letter to exploitation cinema….Mark Hamill chews the scenery with all the nastiness we always knew was in him, while Tony Todd turns in his finest performance since CANDYMAN.” - Rue Morgue



DEAD SUSHI (9:30pm)
Japan, 2012, 91 minutes, Directed by Noboru Iguchi
www.deadsushi.com

Keiko (Rina Takeda) is the daughter of a legendary sushi chef. Hoping to follow in his footsteps, she enters into training under her father’s guidance. His kung fu-like regime is rigid, pushing her to impossible mental and physical limits and Keiko, unable to bear the strain, runs away from home. Finding work at a rural hot springs inn, she is dismayed to find that her co-workers are an eccentric lot who have it in for the new girl. Complicating matters is the arrival of a group of employees from Komatsu Pharmaceutical there to sample the inn’s famous specialty sushi. Following them in pursuit of revenge is Yamada, a medical researcher betrayed by the Komatsu president. Disgruntled and seeking revenge, Yamada injects the hotel sushi with a drug that not only brings it to life, but also turns it into ferocious, bloodthirsty killers!

Director Noboru Iguchi has brought audiences machine gun schoolgirls, robot geisha, toilet zombies and karate robots. The next logical step for him? Killer sushi!

“A horror / action / ultra-goofy slapstick farce…. If splattery Japanese weirdness is what you’re into, this flick delivers the goods, and then some!” - Fearnet


SPONSORED BY: Steam Whistle Brewing & Costello's Sports Lounge
Just to get you a little more excited about the upcoming festival, we decided to host another special event!