HARUKO'S PARANORMAL LABORATORY Teaser Is Every Bit As Odd As You Might Hope

When Lisa Takeba's sophomore feature, Haruko's Paranormal Laboratory, premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam you may have thought to yourself, "That movie with the TV-headed guy looks like it might be a little bit odd." You would be correct. I know this thanks to the freshly released teaser, which calls to mind some of Ishii Katsuhito's more manic moments.

Haruko the young lady lives alone and talks to TV everyday. She witnessed her father's affair when she was a teenager. Since then she has been closed to herself to paranormal phenomena and drifted apart from her family. One day, the TV at Haruko's house turns into human figure and shows his feelings. Haruko is surprised but happy to have the TV man living together with her as a couple. Later the TV man starts to find a job but gets turn away a lot because of his look. At last a producer discovers the TV man's special skills of speaking 12 languages and make him a TV star at TV language program. Quickly, the TV man becomes much more famous than they expected...

Check out the teaser below.