Winner of the Grand Prix at the 24th Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival, Lisa Takeba's debut feature is a hyper-imaginative crazytown sci-fi drama about a slacker and his clone. Flashy, funky, and filled to the brim with genre influences of all kinds, The Pinkie is a uniquely entertaining comedy moving at breakneck speed with a plot that seems to be lifted straight out of another solar system. Ryosuke is drifting through life, but when he seduces a yakuza's mistress, the gangsters rough him up and chop off his pinkie. It comes into the possession of Momoko, a girl who has been stalking Ryosuke. She gets herself a cloning kit and grows her own Ryosuke-clone. The creature performs beyond expectations and proves to be a remarkable lover. Soon, hilarity and horror are sharing the same seat. Chock-full of Western and Japanese pop-culture references and packed with jokes ranging from the sublime to the ridiculous, it's as if Sekiguchi Gen's Survive Style 5+ had been directed by the deranged minds behind the Sushi Typhoon splatter films with a view to mixing Weird Science, Battles Without Honor and Humanity, and The Terminator into 65 concentrated minutes of weirdness.