AnyMart (2026)
チルド
Director: Iwasaki Yusuke
Cast: Shota Sometani, Erika Karata, Kuruma Takahira, Masahiko Nishimura, Tatsuya Nagashima
Did you know? Director Kiyoshi Kurosawa reportedly instructed background actors to practice "smiling with their eyes only" for hours, a technique inspired by real Japanese customer service manuals that forbid showing negative emotions.
Why Watch: Haunted by the soul-crushing smile of corporate conformity? *AnyMart* is the must-watch horror of the year, transforming a supermarket into a chilling metaphor for Japan’s silent social pressure. It’s a brilliantly unsettling film that will make you think twice about the price of politeness, anchored by a glimmer of hope in young Sakai that you’ll be rooting for.
A single supermarket becomes a chilling mirror of Japanese culture in this biting horror film, where blank stares and a manager who enforces a dead-eyed, robotic cheerfulness rule the aisles. Amid the oppressive conformity, only a young worker named Sakai dares to cling to hope.