65 minutes, 35mm, in Japanese with English subtitles
Directed by: Minoru Kawasaki
Starring: Takumi Saito, Shoko Nakagawa, Bill Robinson

Showtimes: June 25, 6:00pm (with HAIR short) at the ImaginAsian [Buy Tickets]; July 1, 1:00pm (with HAIR short) at the ImaginAsian [Buy Tickets];

In Japan there is a wrestler. His name is legendary. His sombrero is enormous. His mask is cool. His name is BEETLE, THE HORN KING. A masked wrestler with his own theme song and the strength and agility of the mighty horn beetle (Anoplophora glabripennis), he fights for truth, justice and fairness in wrestling around the world with his homies, the International Masked Wrestler Association. But alien wrestlers based on lesser insects have invaded the planet and acted in a rude and disgusting manner. Now they must be laid low with Helicopter Kicks.

Directed by Japan's hottest new comedy auteur, Minoru Kawasaki (the genius behind CALAMARI WRESTLER, the story of a wrestling squid with a Red Lobster heart), BEETLE, THE HORN KING is the ultimate collision of masked Mexican wrestlers, Japanese sci fi and bug-loving weirdness. Made in conjunction with the Osaka Wrestling Federation, this is a like a bizarro broadcast of THE MIGHTY MORPHIN POWER RANGERS filtered through Jack Black's NACHO LIBRE. As a wise man once said, “Watch BEETLE, THE HORN KING and discover the peace inside yourself ”