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.

Cast

Yoshinori Miyata

Gaku Sano

Koji Ishikawa

Crew

Kaede Fujimoto

Director

Kaede Fujimoto

Screenplay

Takayuki Matsutani

Executive Producer

Jun Ishii

Assistant Director

Kenzou Abe

Producer

Takahiro Kawada

Producer