“The opening 20 minutes of Dai Nipponjin are the most boring 20 minutes in the history of cinema.” That’s Grady Hendrix, selling one of the films he’s selected for the New York Asian Film Festival (the final lineup was just released today), on this podcast at The House Next Door. If that doesn’t have you marking your calendars, allow Grady to continue:

The first 20 minutes are like, him shopping, him complaining about how his wife divorced him and how he hates his job and his government salary isn’t very good, and he’s just this idiot…and then they pump 50,000 amps through his nipples and he turns into this giant super hero in purple underwear and beats up monsters…This is like the porno version of Cloverfield. You find out what happens when giant monsters go into heat. Which isn’t pretty.

Dai Nipponjin (which roughly translates to “The Big Japanese”) previously played Cannes and Toronto; at the former, Variety’s Russell Edwards called the film (which is described variously as a mockumentary/reality TV spoof) “hands down, the strangest picture in Cannes this year…[a] tears-down-the-face funny and a genuine, jaw-dropping oddity.” Twitch’s Todd Brown praised director Hitosi Matumoto for employing “the most incredibly deadpan approach to absurdist humor in the history of the world.”

All of that sounds fine, but all you really have to do is tell me that a movie “boring” and then compare it to porn, and you pretty much have me locked in. Above, check out the only English-subtitled trailer for Dai Nipponjin that I could find, via Undead Backbrain; Magnolia’s Magnet division plans to release it this year. The full NYAFF lineup can be perused here.