'Best Wishes to All' Review: J-Horror Shocks with Grotesque Violence and a Bleak Worldview

Can happiness exist without a sense of egotism? Can contentment be achieved via pure fairness and goodness? In the J-horror nightmare Best Wishes to All, co-writer and director Yûta Shimotsu answers those questions with unnerving certainty: No. Based on his 2022 short of the same name, Shimotsu's feature film debut — winner of the "Scariest Feature" award at the 2025 Overlook Film Festival —boasts a simple premise that unravels to reveal an abstract monstrosity.
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