A simple funeral turns a man's world Topsy turvy. He wakes up in a posh hotel room, totally clueless about how he got there. Slowly, he recalls what happened a day before.
Direction
SABU's clockwork precision turns repetition into revelation.
Acting
Tsutsumi's deadpan panic is a masterclass in controlled unraveling.
Editing
The circular structure rewards patience with devastating punchlines.
Director
SABU
Shinichi Tsutsumi
Koichi Takagi
Yasuko Matsuyuki
Yuko Kirishima
Nanako Okochi
Rie Kondo
Naomi Nishida
Yuki Machida
Masanobu Ando
Mitsuo Kondo
Ren Osugi
Murai Yoshio
Hijiri Kojima
Akiko
Akaji Maro
Homeless Man / Demon
Sansei Shiomi
Detective Daisuke Ōshima
Hideki Noda
Shingo Kamiyama
Akira Yamamoto
Kiichiro Hanai
Tomorowo Taguchi
Mitsuhiko Shima
Susumu Terajima
Saburo Nakano
Yutaka Matsushige
Masaki Kubo
Kanji Tsuda
Kenji
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
SABU shot the film in chronological order of the timeline, not the narrative, so Tsutsumi never knew his character's 'past' until the script demanded it.
The film satirizes Japanese 'amae' culture—dependency and passive aggression dressed as politeness—making Koichi's spiral specifically Japanese yet universally relatable.
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