The Cactus in the Bed

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.

Genre:

Drama

Duration:

30 min

Actor:

Yoshinori Miyata , Gaku Sano , Koji Ishikawa

Quality:

HD

Director:

Kaede Fujimoto

Release:

2023

Country:

Japan

IMDb:

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