A mediocre director (Takayuki Higurashi) is approached about directing a zombie show for a brand-new TV channel. The constraints are 1) it is shot live and 2) it is filmed in one take. His male lead (Kazuaki Nagaya) constantly second-guesses the script because he is a "serious" actor, his female lead (Yuzuki Akiyama) is a pop idol with massive constraints on her image, his fake Director of Photography (Manobu Hosoi) is a drunk, his real DP (Yoshiko Takahara?) has a back injury, and his fake sound engineer (Shuntaro Yamazaki) has IBS. It is a literal and metaphorical shitshow.
All the zombie action is in the first 1/3 of the movie, which does look like every shitty zombie movie you've ever seen. The rest of it is a behind-the-scenes movie-within-a-movie type film that centers on the director trying to connect with his daughter (Mao) before she leaves for college. It's very cute, very heart-warming, plucky underdog stuff. With buckets of fake blood. If that is your jam, it's currently streaming on Shudder.
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