page_title: One Cut of the Dead
section_title: Production
hierarchical_section_title: One Cut of the Dead / Production
caption_attribution_description: 日本語: 「カメラを止めるな!」チネチッタ川崎での舞台挨拶（2018年7月14日） 後列左から、真魚、しゅはまはるみ、長屋和彰、大沢真一郎、浅森咲希奈、山口友和、曽我真臣、 前列左から、濱津隆之、上田慎一郎、細井学、市原洋
context_page_description: One Cut of the Dead is a 2017 Japanese zombie comedy film written and directed by Shin'ichirô Ueda.
  Made with a low budget of ¥3 million with a cast of unknown actors, the film opened in Japan in a small theatre for a six day run. Following its international success at its screening at the Udine Film Festival, the film began getting wider exposure, including a re-release in Japan. It grossed US $27,935,711 in Japan and $30.5 million worldwide, making box office history by earning over a thousand times its budget. The film also received universal acclaim from critics, who praised its originality, writing and humor.
context_section_description: Filmmaker Shin'ichirô Ueda directed, edited, and wrote the script for One Cut of the Dead. Ueda, an independent filmmaker, had previously made several short films. For the film, he stated that One Cut of the Dead was partially inspired by Ryoichi Wada's stage play, Ghost in the Box, which Ueda had seen five years prior. Wada, a playwright and theater director, had presented Ghost in the Box from 2011 to 2014.
  To make his film, Ueda worked with the Enbu Seminar drama school in Tokyo. Enbu Seminar not only produced the film, but also hosted the acting workshops that Ueda used to help cast its actors, most of them unknowns. According to actress Yuzuki Akiyama, the workshop lasted for two months. She had previously worked with Ueda on his 2011 short film, Dreaming Novelist.
  Filming for One Cut of the Dead took place over the course of eight days in June 2017. It was shot at a water filtration plant in Mito, Ibaraki that had been abandoned. Akiyama described the filming process as "very enjoyable but also pretty exhausting", due to the pressure to get a long take right. The long take in particular, a 37-minute-long continuous shot of the zombie film, took six takes.
  One Cut of the Dead was made for ¥3 million (approximately $25,000 at the time), and was partially crowdfunded. After the eight days of shooting, it took four months for Ueda to edit the film.
caption: The cast and director of One Cut of the Dead in July 2018
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