The cinema is temporarily closed for renovations and will reopen after August 2nd.

One Cut of the Dead Kamera o tomeru na!

Shin'ichirô Ueda / Japan / 2017 / 96 min / Japanese

A comedy horror film proving that even the zombie apocalypse genre can be raised from the dead. A satire of low-budget filmmaking, which gets very complicated when the cast gets drunk, and even more, when they start becoming real zombies themselves.

festivals, awards Fantaspoa Brasil 2018 (Best Film), Tokyo 2017, Karlovy Vary 2018

A small crew with a director – who has a screw loose – is shooting a low-budget zombie flick in an abandoned factory where the Japanese Army experimented with reanimation of dead bodies during WWII. It doesn’t take long before the actors and crew start changing into real live corpses themselves. The perfectionist director refuses to cancel the shoot and, obsessed by a fixation on “true art”, he runs about filming while the zombie epidemic claims one victim after another. He seems willing to sacrifice it all to get the perfect shot.

“This film was so hard, it was nothing but trouble trying to make it! /…/ In the script we had planned some things to go wrong for the fictional crew, but on top of that we had a lot of other things that went wrong while we were filming the one shot. There’s a moment where blood splashed on the camera, it looked planned but that happened completely by chance and someone really had to wipe it off the screen. We had planned for some things to go wrong, and then we had other things go wrong in reality, so we ended up amalgamating the two into the film. I think if we had scripted everything then it wouldn’t have been as exciting.” (Shin'ichirô Ueda)

Shin'ichirô Ueda
Born in 1984 in Kyoto, Japan. After graduating, in 2010, Ueda established the Panpokopina film company. He strives to make entertaining films and his latest work, One Cut of the Dead, is a perfect example.

Kinodvor. Newsletter.

Join our mailing list and receive details of upcoming films and events!

What's On

Film Under the Stars / Avant Premiere

Dreams (Sex Love) Drømmer

Dag Johan Haugerud

Saturday, 19. 07. 2025 / 21:30 / The Ljubljana Castle

Johanne falls in love for the first time… with her teacher. To preserve her overwhelming experience, she entrusts her feelings to paper. When her mother and grandmother read her writings, they are initially shocked by its intimate content but soon see its literary potential… »Refreshingly unexpected, Dag Johan Haugerud’s Dreams breathes new life into the often oversimplified genre of sexual awakening that seems to draw on his twinned career in both cinema and books.«Deadline. Golden Bear at the last Berlinale.

Conclave Conclave

Edward Berger

Sunday, 20. 07. 2025 / 21:30 / The Ljubljana Castle

When Cardinal Lawrence takes charge of one of the world’s most secretive and ancient procedures—the selection of a new Pope—he finds himself entangled in intrigues and scandals that could shake the very foundations of the Catholic Church. Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.

How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies Lahn Mah

Pat Boonnitipat

Monday, 21. 07. 2025 / 21:30 / The Ljubljana Castle

A young Thai director wraps important questions about family, intergenerational ties, and the pursuit of happiness into a touching dramedy that broke all box office records at home and became a cultural phenomenon. Bring your grandma – and don’t forget the tissues!