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One Cut of the Dead

One Cut of the Dead

Don't Stop Shooting!

20177.61h 36m

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.

Directed by Shinichiro Ueda
Written by Shinichiro Ueda, Ryoichi Wada
Produced by Koji Ichihashi
Box OfficeBudget: $52KRevenue: $27.6M

Top Cast

Takayuki Hamatsu

Takayuki Hamatsu

Director Higurashi

Yuzuki Akiyama

Yuzuki Akiyama

Chinatsu

Kazuaki Nagaya

Kazuaki Nagaya

Kazuaki Kamiya

Harumi Shuhama

Harumi Shuhama

Nao

Mao

Mao

Mao Higurashi

Hiroshi Ichihara

Hiroshi Ichihara

Kasahara

Manabu Hosoi

Manabu Hosoi

Manabu Hosoda

Shuntarô Yamazaki

Shuntarô Yamazaki

Toshisuke Yamago

Shinichiro Osawa

Shinichiro Osawa

Shinichiro Furusawa

Donguri

Donguri

Yoshiko Sasahara

Themes & Keywords

cinema on cinemafilm in filmzombiefilmmakingmaking offound footagelivestreamrepurposed footage

About One Cut of the Dead

One Cut of the Dead is a comedy, horror, drama film released in 2017 exploring themes of cinema on cinema, film in film, zombie, filmmaking, making of, found footage. Directed by Shinichiro Ueda, it stars Takayuki Hamatsu, Yuzuki Akiyama, Kazuaki Nagaya. 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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