Oh joy. We've been keeping our eyes open for more goodies about the upcoming comedy Dumb Animal/Donju starring Tadanobu Asano and based on the play by Twitch fave Kankuro Kudo. The official site has undergone a face lift and as is the way of things when this kind of thing happens there is a spanking new trailer along with that fabulous two-tone score. Dig it baby.

An especially dull-witted young novelist named Dekoyan (Tadanobu Asano) goes missing and a subsequent investigation uncovers various plots by his friends to murder him—presumably for revealing a childhood secret through the increasingly-popular stories. Regardless of the absurd methods they used in their murder attempts, however, they just couldn’t seem to finish him off. NipponCinema

Tadanobu Asano - Dekoyan
Yoko Maki - Shizuka
Kazuki Kitamura - Edacchi
Yusuke Santamaria - Okaji
Yoko Minamino - Junko
Aimi Satsukawa - Nora
Jero - Akira