MIFF 2022 Short Film Review - Sushi Noh

Images courtesy of the Melbourne International Film Festival.

Sushi Noh is both equally hilarious in its grotesque execution as it is genuinely disturbing, a perfect blend of the two created by the adherence to its ridiculous premise: a machine that creates sushi rolls from raw fish and excretes them from its mouth. At the centre is the tense relationship between a young girl, Ellie, and her unloving Uncle Donnie, as he becomes enamoured with, and subsequently possessed by the sushi machine. A hilariously over-the-top performance from Felino Dolloso as the unusual Uncle, as he mistreats his niece and attempts to woo a co-worker with his “homemade” sushi, morphs into a nightmarish horror villain as he devolves into madness, excreting his own sushi rolls and subsequently raw fish, from his mouth.

You’ll likely not want to eat sushi again (or at least not for a while) after watching this.

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Sushi Noh is screening as part of the Accelerator Shorts 1 program at the Melbourne International Film Festival, running in cinemas August 4-21 and online August 11-28. For tickets and more info, click here.