Cells at Work!

[Drunk Monk]

Cells at Work

This begins as a cutesy educational farce. The actors are cells within a human body. We follow a newly born red blood cell as she embarks on her job of oxygen delivery. She meets a white blood cell, the T cells, and a NT cell, and they fight off various diseases that are straight out of tokusatsu villains with outrageous costumes, tentacles, scorpion stingers and cackling laughs. 

We meet the humans - a rather & daughter. It’s the cells in the daughter’s body that were following; when she interacts with her crush, the cells get an adrenaline dump that’s like a Brazilian edm dace party. 

Then we meet the cells in the father’s body: he drinks and eats poorly, and his body is streets clogged with cholesterol trash. His liver is like a strip club and when he drinks, it rains alcohol. There’s an act where he gets the runs from bad food and we get a view of his struggles trying to find a place to shit from inside the anus where brown turd humans try to fight their way out. 

Then suddenly it takes an extremely dark and everything changes. It gets very serious and emotional. 

This film is a crazy mind trip. It’s very entertaining but it’s a show that only Japan can do. D00M recommended.