Kaede Fujimoto

In his mid-thirties, YANAGIDA Yoshinori aspires to be a movie actor but suffers from want of opportunity, working mostly as a stand-in for other professional actors in TV commercials. After a chat over drinks with a successful colleague, he decides to address his mid-career crisis by auditioning for a role in a student movie. Will he survive the student director’s endless script revisions and eccentricities, and persevere in this perilous path towards movie stardom? This tragicomedy of an actor’s life with a metafictional ending celebrates every filmmaker’s relentless dedication to cinema.

Two guys go ghost hunting in a basement, two salesmen get spooked by doppelgangers, a couple have a comedic night at a love hotel, and a counsellor interviews a criminal claiming to be a divine being. These are just some of the five-minute scenes that have been shot in one take by a single static camera and with no ADR permitted. As these everyday situations spiral out of control with plot twists, it’s a high-wire act for the performers to get to the punchline!

In his mid-thirties, YANAGIDA Yoshinori aspires to be a movie actor but suffers from want of opportunity, working mostly as a stand-in for other professional actors in TV commercials. After a chat over drinks with a successful colleague, he decides to address his mid-career crisis by auditioning for a role in a student movie. Will he survive the student director’s endless script revisions and eccentricities, and persevere in this perilous path towards movie stardom? This tragicomedy of an actor’s life with a metafictional ending celebrates every filmmaker’s relentless dedication to cinema.

In his mid-thirties, YANAGIDA Yoshinori aspires to be a movie actor but suffers from want of opportunity, working mostly as a stand-in for other professional actors in TV commercials. After a chat over drinks with a successful colleague, he decides to address his mid-career crisis by auditioning for a role in a student movie. Will he survive the student director’s endless script revisions and eccentricities, and persevere in this perilous path towards movie stardom? This tragicomedy of an actor’s life with a metafictional ending celebrates every filmmaker’s relentless dedication to cinema.

Two guys go ghost hunting in a basement, two salesmen get spooked by doppelgangers, a couple have a comedic night at a love hotel, and a counsellor interviews a criminal claiming to be a divine being. These are just some of the five-minute scenes that have been shot in one take by a single static camera and with no ADR permitted. As these everyday situations spiral out of control with plot twists, it’s a high-wire act for the performers to get to the punchline!