NEWS: Japanese Sleeper Hit ‘One Cut of the Dead’ Heads for English Remake1 min read
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One Cut of the Dead, a micro-budget horror film that last year defied the odds to become one of the biggest hits of the year in Japan, is headed for an English-language remake.
Patrick Cunningham, a Japan-based American producer whose credits include Martha Marcy May Marlene and Starlet, is behind the venture.
The original film, which depicts the zombie invasion of a low-budget movie shoot, had its debut at the Yubari festival in northern Japan in March of last year and played the following month at the Festival of Far East Film in Udine, Italy.
It received a nominal two-screen commercial release in Japan in June. But, buoyed by positive feedback, it scored more screens and played for several months. By the end of December, its cumulative gross had risen to $26.3 million – nearly 1,000 times its production budget of just $27,000.
Image credit: Far East Film Festival
