[The film does not have an official English title yet.] is a 2009
Japan
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ese
comedy film
The comedy film is a film genre that emphasizes humor. These films are designed to amuse audiences and make them laugh. Films in this genre typically have a happy ending, with dark comedy being an exception to this rule. Comedy is one of the o ...
. It stars comedian
Naoto Takenaka as "the General", the dictator of a fictional Asian country, which parodies the
North Korea
North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the northern half of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and borders China and Russia to the north at the Yalu River, Yalu (Amnok) an ...
n leader
Kim Jong-il. The film also parodies the 2009 Japanese disaster film ''Pandemic''.
Plot
A mysterious virus with the 100%
mortality rate
Mortality rate, or death rate, is a measure of the number of deaths (in general, or due to a specific cause) in a particular Statistical population, population, scaled to the size of that population, per unit of time. Mortality rate is typically ...
spreads across Japan. Everyone infected with this virus dies without exception, screaming and their heads exploding. After the explosion, their faces turn into a smiling face which strongly resembles Kim Jong-il.
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2009 films
Japanese comedy films
2000s parody films
2009 comedy films
2000s Japanese films
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