Hitoshi Matsumoto's second film, Symbol is one of this year's Midnight Madness selections, and promises to be one of the strangest of the program's history. Coming from the writer/director/star of 2007's Dai-Nipponjin, nobody should be surprised.  The film opens in Japan a couple days before screening at TIFF so unlike most films at the festival its marketing campaign is in full swing.  Of course, it's a weird one.

First are the two teaser trailers that have been released:

Teaser 1

Teaser 2

The poster:

Thanks to Jason Gray for the tip on the Hello Kitty promotion. More images of Kitty (is that too familiar?) in Matsumoto's pyjamas can be found linked off of his blog entry.