Symbol (しんぼる, Shinboru) is a 2009 Japanese surrealist comedy film directed and starring by Hitoshi Matsumoto. It was nominated for the Asian Film Awards in the categories of Best Actor and Best Visual Effects. It has not received a U.S. release.

Symbol: Directed by Hitoshi Matsumoto. With Hitoshi Matsumoto, David Quintero, Luis Accinelli, Lilian Tapia. A man wakes up in a white room empty other than buttons on the walls, he must find out which button to push to get what he wants.

Symbol, en japonais : Shinboru (しんぼる) est le deuxième long-métrage du réalisateur Hitoshi Matsumoto, sorti en 2009. Comme dans son film précédent, Big Man Ja...

Sep 9, 2019 · Symbol (2009) is hilarious and thought-provoking, minimalist and uniquely inventive. Simply put: The best Japanese comedy you will ever see! Matsumoto’s Comedy Cult Classic is an Overlooked Masterpiece!

Jan 1, 2009 · Stars: Hitoshi Matsumoto, David Quintero, Luis Accinelli. A man wakes up in a white room empty other than buttons on the walls, he must find out which button to push to get what he wants.!!!ATTENTION!!! FOR ENGLISH...

There's the story of an out-of-shape Mexican wrestler known as "Escargot Man" as he prepares for a title fight in some tiny dusty little village. And simultaneously, there's the story being told of a Japanese man who awakes to find himself in a large, all white rectangular room with no doors or windows. Just how are these two stories connected?

When he presses a mysteriously phallic protuberance that appears on one wall, a pink toothbrush materializes from nowhere, clattering to the floor and setting in motion a genuinely bizarre chain of events.

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Symbol demands that you question every object which pops unopposed into the white room with each tug of a small angel's reproductive organ. There is a lawn chair, a bonsai tree, and chopsticks.