Zombies of One Cut of the Dead
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
When did it first appear?
2017Released 2017
What the sources say
The film opens with a 37-minute zombie film shot in a single take1
Its second and third parts go back and show how that chaotic take was produced1
Made for about 3 million yen and grossed over 3 billion yen in Japan1
Adapted from a stage play and partly crowdfunded1
Remade in France as Final Cut (2022) by Michel Hazanavicius, which opened the Cannes festival1
The only found-footage film with a 100 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes as of 20251
Sources
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