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Zombies of One Cut of the Dead

Also called: カメラを止めるな!, Kamera o Tomeru na!
FilmUndeadSorcery2010 to today

One Cut of the Dead begins as a one-take zombie film and then shows the chaotic shoot that produced it. Its zombies exist inside a film within the film. It sold more than two million tickets in Japan against a break-even target of 5,000 and won several Japanese film awards.1

Battle it
First appeared
2017
Released 2017
Source work
One Cut of the Dead (2017)
Shin'ichiro Ueda
Made in
Japan
What causes it
Sorcery
In the film within the film, a blood pentagram is painted at a haunted plant to raise real zombies.

When did it first appear?

Ancient worldMiddle Ages1500 to 18991900 to 19671968 to 19992000 to 20092010 to today2017

Released 2017

field notes

What the sources say

1

The film opens with a 37-minute zombie film shot in a single take1

2

Its second and third parts go back and show how that chaotic take was produced1

3

Made for about 3 million yen and grossed over 3 billion yen in Japan1

4

Adapted from a stage play and partly crowdfunded1

5

Remade in France as Final Cut (2022) by Michel Hazanavicius, which opened the Cannes festival1

6

The only found-footage film with a 100 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes as of 20251

Sources

  1. One Cut of the Dead - Wikipedia

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