Adaptation of the first volume following an eight-year-old boy Keiji getting a mysterious snack that can make him fish taiyaki (japanese fish-shaped cake).
Direction
Tomioka packs a feature's worth of unease into nine minutes.
Sound
Candy-wrapper ASMR that becomes genuinely unsettling.
Director
Satoshi Tomioka
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Dagashi are cheap Japanese candies; the film weaponizes their nostalgic innocence into something almost folkloric.
The 9-minute runtime mirrors a fever dream's logic—no time to question before it's over. That's the trap.
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