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: True to its title, the film treats every object and action as a symbol that lacks immediate context but carries immense weight in the larger "Theory of Everything".

: A man (Matsumoto) in polka-dot pajamas awakens in a vast, sterile white room with no exit. The walls are covered in "phallic protuberances"—cherubic switches that, when pressed, release random objects like toothbrushes, sushi, or even live animals. Shinboru

To ask what genre Symbol, by Japanese director Hitoshi Matsumoto, belongs to tends to spoil its sophisticated conceptual approach. Symbol – The Asian Cinema Critic : True to its title, the film treats

The film follows two seemingly unrelated stories that eventually collide in a grand, cosmic climax: : True to its title