The Chicken

The Chicken — Plot

On an unseasonably hot day in November, Hiro, a Japanese immigrant in New York City, decides to butcher a live chicken for dinner. While showing his visiting cousin Kei around, the pair encounter a medical emergency on the street. After they mishandle the situation and end up causing more harm than good, Hiro cannot bring himself to kill the chicken. Throughout, Kei observes his cousin’s new lifestyle as Hiro and his pregnant wife prepare for their move to Chinatown. As the day wears on, Hiro and Kei’s actions highlight how their lives are complicit in the structural violence that surrounds them.

• Release date
• August 8, 2020
• Runtime
• 14 min
• Genres
• Drama
• Director
• Neo Sora

The Chicken — Cast

Junshin Soga Hiro Taiju Nakane Kei Sandra Maren Schneider Anna Alan Chen CJ Jordan Rodriguez First Cop

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Florian Koenigsberger Second Cop Kenta Koga Barista

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Nuuria Berg Cafe Patron