The Cactus in the Bed
2023 · 30 min · Drama
In his mid-thirties, YANAGIDA Yoshinori aspires to be a movie actor but suffers from want of opportunity, working mostly as a stand-in for other professional actors in TV commercials. After a chat over drinks with a successful colleague, he decides to address his mid-career crisis by auditioning for a role in a student movie. Will he survive the student director’s endless script revisions and eccentricities, and persevere in this perilous path towards movie stardom? This tragicomedy of an actor’s life with a metafictional ending celebrates every filmmaker’s relentless dedication to cinema.
- Director
- Kaede Fujimoto
- Writer
- Kaede Fujimoto
- Released
- February 17, 2023
- Language
- Japanese
Cast
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