Kenichi Ugana has been quite prolific lately, turning in film after film since 2019, having already reached six, which, even more impressively, differ quite significantly from each other. In “Extraneous Matter”, a movie which is a longer version of a homonymous short he shot in 2020, he implements a manga/anime-like approach, with the characteristic sexual fantasy tentacles that are frequently met in hentai playing a key role, in a setting though, that seems like a Japanese version of a Jarmusch setting.

Extraneous Matters is screening at Nippon Connection

The narrative has an episodic nature, focusing on the lives of a series of different people, as they get completely upside down by the appearance of a mysterious octopus-like alien race, who eventually is found in a number of households. In the first part, a young woman who lives a mundane, filled with routine life finds herself enjoying extreme pleasure by the tentacles of the creature,...