Brilliantly realised and utterly original, Man in a Zen Ambulance is set in a surreal Buddhist world of 1950s street styles, rockabilly music, temples and chrome-laden tail-finned cars. Everyone is getting out of town. Teddy Boy yakuza fight it out with the Shoho girl gang while a Rita Hayworth film plays at the deserted cinema. The local temple is being pulled down. A mean old lady wanders the streets with a mysterious shopping bag. A young barber gets his kicks out of a hand-held King Tut Multi-Speed. Out in the scrublands a nun tries to free a wartime bomber sticking out the side of a gigantic Buddhist statue. A pyramid of rocket fuel tanks... Enter Milo the Monk armed with a big gun trying to figure who exactly he's meant to kill. The Colonel orders Luther and his bad-arsed girlfriend to take him out first. Then all hell breaks loose. Murder and mayhem as Milo, the yakuza, Luther, Rei and the Colonel all head into town for the final bloody showdown.