It takes a great deal of careful plotting to make a good confined single location thriller. Films such as Buried (2010), The Pool (2018), and 4×4 (2019) rely on a variety of complications to maintain tension without becoming repetitive or overstaying their welcome. It’s a delicate balance, but when it’s done well, the results can be electrifying.
Writer Michitaka Okada adopts a unique conceit for their latest, #Manhole, which readily employs social media to drive the narrative of a successful realtor, Shunsuke Kawamura (Yûto Nakajima), who falls down an open manhole the night before his wedding.
Director Kazuyoshi Kumakiri cues audiences that phones will play a vital part by opening with an elaborate split-screen video of Shunsuke’s work colleagues taping congratulations at his wedding party. Immediately following the party, a drunken Shunsuke bids his friend Kase (Kento Nagayama) goodbye, stumbles down the street and almost immediately falls down a hole in the ground.
Writer Michitaka Okada adopts a unique conceit for their latest, #Manhole, which readily employs social media to drive the narrative of a successful realtor, Shunsuke Kawamura (Yûto Nakajima), who falls down an open manhole the night before his wedding.
Director Kazuyoshi Kumakiri cues audiences that phones will play a vital part by opening with an elaborate split-screen video of Shunsuke’s work colleagues taping congratulations at his wedding party. Immediately following the party, a drunken Shunsuke bids his friend Kase (Kento Nagayama) goodbye, stumbles down the street and almost immediately falls down a hole in the ground.
- 8/1/2023
- by Joe Lipsett
- bloody-disgusting.com
COLOGNE -- German film and television producer Werner Possardt, whose Calypso Film produced movies such as The Pool, Fandango and German TV miniseries Operation Noah, has died from injuries in the Tsunami disaster in South-East Asia, his family said on Tuesday. The 53-year-old Possardt was on vacation in Phuket, Thailand with his wife when the catastrophic flooding struck the area. Both were buried alive when the building they were in collapsed. Emergency workers rescued them after two days but Possardt was severely injured and died later on the operating table. His wife has since returned home to Germany. Possardt set up Calypso in 1980 and produced some 20 films and TV movies, most in the horror and thriller genre. But the company was unable to weather the downturn in the German advertising market and declared bankruptcy in 2002. Possardt is survived by his wife and two children.
- 1/11/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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