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One Cut of the Dead

2017 · 96 min

A giddy, affectionate love letter to scrappy filmmaking that starts as a grimy zombie shocker and blossoms into a joyful, hilarious backstage farce.

Tagline
Don't Stop Shooting!
Overview
Real zombies arrive and terrorize the crew of a zombie film being shot in an abandoned warehouse, said to be the site of military experiments on humans.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • whimsicalstrength 3 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 3 of 3
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • campystrength 2 of 3
Pacing
brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • art
  • family
  • work
  • obsession
  • survival
Places
  • workplace
  • single country house
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • found footage
  • nonlinear
  • ensemble
Content intensity
  • Gore strong
  • Language mild
  • Violence strong
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action5
Horror4
Humour8
Realism6
Romance1
Tension5
Darkness4
Complexity8
Emotional weight6

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Details

Genres
comedy, horror, drama
Directed by
Shinichiro Ueda
Written by
Shinichiro Ueda
Starring
Takayuki Hamatsu, Yuzuki Akiyama, Kazuaki Nagaya, Harumi Shuhama, Mao, Hiroshi Ichihara, Manabu Hosoi, Shuntarô Yamazaki
Music
Kyle Nagai, Nobuhiro Suzuki
Cinematography
Takeshi Sone
Runtime
96 min
Country
Japan
Languages
Japanese

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