Lumberjack the Monster (怪物の木こり, Kaibutsu no kikori) is a 2023 Japanese horror film directed by Takashi Miike based on the 2019 Mayusuke Kurai novel of the same name.

[1] The film stars Kazuya Kamenashi as a lawyer seeking violent revenge on a masked serial killer.

[3] The police investigate a series of murders and discover a connection to a group of children abducted and implanted with neurochips 31 years earlier.

Lumberjack the Monster first screened on October 13, 2023, in the Òrbita section of the Sitges Film Festival.

[1][4][3] The film screened in North America on May 6, 2024, in conjunction with the Tribeca Festival Escape from Tribeca program ahead of a Netflix release on June 1, 2024.