One Cut of the Dead
is a 2017 Japanese zombie comedy film written and directed by Shin'ichirō Ueda. It follows a team of actors and filmmakers who are tasked with shooting a zombie film for live television, and who must do so in a single take.
Plot
In the first section of the film, the cast and crew of a low-budget zombie film called True Fear are shooting at an abandoned water filtration plant. Director Higurashi, desperate for film success due to mounting debts and frustrated at the actors' work, arranges for a blood pentagram to be painted to revive real zombies per the plant's haunted past. The cameraman turns into a zombie and bites assistant director Kasahara, turning him into one as well. Actress Chinatsu, actor Ko, and makeup artist Nao lock the zombies out of the plant. Higurashi insists they continue filming using the real zombies. The sound engineer rushes out of the plant and is infected. Higurashi brings the zombified sound engineer back in for more footage, throwing him at the actors. Nao decapitates the zombified sound engineer and is splattered with zombie blood.
Awards
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author | Shinichiro Ueda |
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award | Blue Ribbon Awards for Best Film Golden Gross Prize Hochi Film Award http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q11506265 |
contentLocation | Tokyo |
director | Shinichiro Ueda |
genre | comedy horror |
keywords | abandon assistant director attempt to escape behind the scenes build cast and crew crane shot diarrhea end film film crew haunt horror movie human pyramid infect live show makeup artist movie fan one take pentagram shoot small talk turn wander zombie film |
musicBy | Kailu Nagai Nobuhiro Suzuki |
producer | Koji Ichihashi |
productionCompany | Enbu Seminar |
theme | comedy horror filmmaking independent japanese satirical zombie zombie comedy |