One Cut of the Dead
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| German title | One Cut of the Dead |
| Original title | カ メ ラ を 止 め る な! |
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| Country of production | Japan |
| original language | Japanese |
| Publishing year | 2017 |
| length | 96 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Shin'ichirô Ueda |
| script | Shin'ichirô Ueda Ryoichi Wada |
| production | Koji Ichihashi |
| music |
Shôma Itô Kyle Nagai Nobuhiro Suzuki |
| camera | Takeshi Sone |
| cut | Shin'ichirô Ueda |
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One Cut of the Dead ( Japanese original title: カ メ ラ を 止 め る な!, Hepburn : Camera o Tomeru na!, Something like "Don't stop the camera!") Is a Japanese zombie film by Shin'ichirô Ueda from 2017. The Film on May 2, 2019. The first half hour of the film was shot in one piece without editing - a so-called one-shot .
action
The film begins with a young woman being attacked by her friend who has apparently mutated into a zombie , until a person breaks off the scene and insults them both. It turns out that the two are actors and that director Higurashi is far from happy with their performance. The shooting is therefore interrupted for a half-hour break. The members of the film crew are talking about that on set, an old factory, in World War II experiments were performed on dead people, when suddenly erupts really a zombie apocalypse. The director is now excited to capture the real moments of fear and lets the camera keep rolling and focus on the action while the crew members gradually become zombies. After a good half an hour, the young woman is the only survivor on the roof of the factory.
But now the film reveals another level: director Higurashi is hired to film a half-hour zombie film live in a single uncut sequence for a TV event . The following shows how the film crew first gets together and then how the film is shot despite all the adversities. The problems behind the camera, such as a drunk actor, and the improvisations during the shoot are shown.
Production and publication
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One Cut of the Dead only cost a five-digit dollar amount to produce, but it was able to attract more than two million people to the cinema in Japan alone. According to Moviepilot , the film, which was shot with students at a film school in Tokyo, only cost about $ 27,000 but grossed over $ 20 million in Japan by fall 2018.
Between Christmas and New Year's Eve 2018, Amazon briefly published a pirated copy of the film on the Amazon Prime platform , which was temporarily free to customers in the USA and Great Britain.
The film was released in German cinemas on May 2, 2019. On May 23, 2019, the film was released in Germany by Koch Media on Blu-ray Disc and DVD .
synchronization
The German dubbed version was created by Think Global Media GmbH in Berlin.
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Ko | Kazuaki Nagaya | Jannik Endemann |
| Mao | Mao Mao | Christina Wöllner |
| Saki Matsuura | Sakina Asamori | Peggy-Sue Emmler |
reception
The film received mostly positive ratings. Metacritic aggregated a score of 85% based on 13 reviews. Rotten Tomatoes even got a 100% positive critic rating. Kino-Zeit.de describes One Cut of the Dead as a “deep, respectful bow to the art of low-budget filmmaking” and attests to a deep devotion to cinema.
“The much-touted planned sequence in One Cut of the Dead is nice, forgettable fun in and of itself, which is more impressive because it could be implemented on a minimal budget. What helps the Japanese festival hit out of the self-dug pit of this gimmick is its clever approach to precisely this stylistic device. "
Peter Bradshaw from the Guardian felt reminded of the American comedy Noises Off , because there too, an acting performance with its adversities is shown from different perspectives.
Remake
A remake of the film is to be created under producer Patrick Cunningham, which is intended to appeal to a larger audience - especially in English-speaking countries. The remake is supposed to be created on a shoestring budget in the USA . Producer Cunningham came to the film rights when he settled a dispute between director Shin'ichirô Ueda and Japanese theater director Ryoichi Wada, who accused the former of plagiarism.
Web links
- One cut of the Dead in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- One Cut of the Dead in the German dubbing file
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Release for One Cut of the Dead . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 186979 / V).
- ↑ a b c Tobias Mayer: "One Cut Of The Dead": German trailer for the super funny zombie MEGA surprise hit. In: film starts. April 19, 2019, accessed November 16, 2019 .
- ↑ One Cut of the Dead. In: Geek Germany. May 13, 2019, accessed November 16, 2019 .
- ^ A b Rochus Wolff: One Cut of the Dead (2017). In: cinema time. Retrieved November 16, 2019 .
- ↑ a b Jenny Jecke: One Cut of the Dead is the horror phenomenon of the year. In: Moviepilot . October 7, 2018, accessed November 16, 2019 .
- ↑ Christoph Petersen: Mega-Fail: Amazon is offering Prime customers a pirated copy of the zombie hit of the year! In: film starts. January 2, 2019, accessed November 16, 2019 .
- ↑ One Cut of the Dead (Blu-ray). In: Koch Films . Retrieved November 16, 2019 .
- ↑ One Cut of the Dead. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous file , accessed on November 11, 2019 .
- ^ One Cut of the Dead Reviews - Metacritic. Based on 13 reviews. In: Metacritic . Retrieved November 16, 2019 .
- ↑ One Cut of the Dead (camera o tomeru na!). In: Rotten Tomatoes . Accessed on November 16, 2019 (English): "100% TOMATOMETER Total Count: 73"
- ↑ Peter Bradshaw: One Cut of the Dead review - zombie films get a shot in the arm. In: The Guardian . January 4, 2019, accessed November 16, 2019 .
- ↑ Arthur A .: One Cut of the Dead: US remake of the Japanese zombie comedy in progress. In: Filmfutter. May 10, 2019, accessed November 16, 2019 .