Adapted from an extremely witty Japanese short story into Claymation, The Restaurant of Many Orders is a delightfully entertaining horror short about animal rights. It is gloriously macabre in its themes and flips the idea of humans hunting for sports by portraying two British hunters being slowly swindled into preparing themselves as dinner for eagerly awaiting diners in a restaurant designed to entrap humans into thinking they themselves are being served food. This is the first Japanese attempt at Claymation of this length and while not perfect, it is clear that a lot of thought was put into the exploration of the three dimensional aspect offilm making that traditional hand drawing animation did not have access to. The fact that the subjects of every frame are physical objects, allows the creates to play with lights, shadows and camera movements while also incorporating some elements of blocking into scenes that are usually not quite available in traditional animations. While the camera work is often janky - we're reaching the 60s at this point and the camera movements had very little reason to be as terrible as they were, the story alone made this an entertaining watch for me.