{"id":31891,"date":"2019-09-13T19:31:51","date_gmt":"2019-09-13T23:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=31891"},"modified":"2019-09-13T19:37:36","modified_gmt":"2019-09-13T23:37:36","slug":"one-cut-of-the-dead-kamera-o-tomeru-na-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/13\/one-cut-of-the-dead-kamera-o-tomeru-na-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"One Cut of the Dead (Kamera o tomeru na!) (2017)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>It\u2019s really tough to discuss Shin’ichir\u00f4 Ueda\u2019s excellent horror comedy \u201cOne Cut of the Dead\u201d without completely deflating its sheer brilliance for someone that\u2019s never seen it. The less you know about the premise going in to \u201cOne Cut of the Dead,\u201d the more you\u2019ll likely be very entertained by what unfolds. I knew almost nothing but the bare essentials and by the time the credits rolled, I was ready to put it in my top ten of 2019. Spoilers ahead<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Ueda takes us in to the setting of a low budget zombie movie where a director and his small crew are filming inside an abandoned WWII water filtration center. The place has a reputation for being the grounds of experimentation in raising the dead. While filming, director Higurashi is anxious to get the best, genuine emotion from his cast, and before they realize it, they\u2019re actually battling real flesh eating zombies. What begins like a simple kind of schlocky, mediocre zombie movie slowly unfolds as so much more. What \u201cOne Cut of the Dead\u201d becomes is an ode to the love of filmmaking, and how making movies is as much a community and bonding experience as anything else in life.<\/p>\n

I was a bit taken aback with how short the film is, but director Ueda plays with a lot of ideas of fiction and meta-narratives by folding a narrative within a narrative within a narrative. What is a zombie movie becomes a hilarious tale about a production for the \u201cZombie Channel\u201d where the network is planning a high concept zombie movie for their audience. What they don\u2019t realize is that things spiral out of control thanks to drunk co-stars, diarrhea prone cast members, and a main star who begins to take her role way too seriously. Within that, there\u2019s the touching tale of a father and daughter finding common ground through their love for filmmaking and horror movies. The performances are fantastic, especially by Takayumi Hamatsu who plays a father faced with his daughter growing up and forging her own path in life.<\/p>\n

When he jumps on board to make \u201cOne Cut of the Dead,\u201d he takes a bigger part in it than he realized, prompting a lot of repressed emotions. This amounts to a lot of fun and interesting moments where he dives head first in to his role. You wouldn\u2019t think the idea of positioning a movie in the first act, and then showing us how it all came together would work, but the collective cast does such an enormous job with their respective roles. \u201cOne Cut of the Dead\u201d thankfully never oversells the meta narrative, nor the whole production aspect with indulgent winks here and there. Through and through it\u2019s human, it\u2019s hilarious, and it\u2019s a wonderful love letter to the struggle and journey of filmmaking and creating art.<\/p>\n

Opens theatrically in New York and Los Angeles on September 14th<\/sup>! It will also screen in cinemas across the US at a special one-night event on September 17th<\/sup>. Details and screening times at http:\/\/onecut-movie.com\/<\/a><\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s really tough to discuss Shin’ichir\u00f4 Ueda\u2019s excellent horror comedy \u201cOne Cut of the Dead\u201d without completely deflating its sheer brilliance for someone that\u2019s never seen it. The less you know about the premise going in to \u201cOne Cut of the Dead,\u201d the more you\u2019ll likely be very entertained by what unfolds. I knew almost […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[113,219,302,359,367,477,898,1087,1221],"class_list":["post-31891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-asian","tag-comedy","tag-drama","tag-filmmaking","tag-foreign","tag-horror","tag-satire","tag-thriller","tag-zombies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31891"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31894,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31891\/revisions\/31894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}