Shudder 10: One Cut of the Dead (2017)
Director: Shinichiro Ueda Run Time: 96 min. Rating: NR Release Year: 2017 Language: Japanese
Starring: Harumi Shuhama, Kazuaki Nagaya, Mao, Takayuki Hamatsu, Yuzuki Akiyama
Country: Japan
Language: Japanese
Screening as part of the Shudder 10 Screening Series
Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium horror streaming service, celebrates its 10-year anniversary in 2025. Learn more below.
About the film:
Things go badly for a hack director and film crew shooting a low budget zombie movie in an abandoned WWII Japanese facility, when they are attacked by real zombies.
About the filmmaker:
Director Shinichiro Ueda formed his film company Panpokopina in 2010, and to date his short films have received numerous festival awards. In 2015, he made his commercial film debut with a short film, Neko manma, in an omnibus film project. With his personal slogan of “making films which will still be fun after 100 years”, he continues to create films with high entertainment value. His feature debut One Cut of the Dead (2017), a micro-budget zombie comedy, had a sensational box office receipt of more than 1,000 times its budget.
About the series:
Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium horror streaming service, will mark its 10-year anniversary and a decade of the best in horror with its most terrifyingly ambitious programming slate to date, special fan events, customized merchandise and more.
Kicking off in April and running through the fall, Shudder’s nationwide screening tour, “Shudder 10 Screening Series,” will feature a curated selection of Shudder films that are making their big screen debut.
The tour will make stops at IFC Center in New York City, Music Box in Chicago, SIFF in Seattle, The Coolidge in Boston, Popcorn Frights Film Festival in Fort Lauderdale, Gateway Film Center in Columbus, Screenland Armor in Kansas City, all Soho House locations and more.
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