Part of what makes hit Japanese zombie comedy One Cut Of The Dead (2017) so funny is the number of ridiculous problems that the film-making crew in the story runs into while trying to shoot a movie - an actor gets drunk, equipment breaks down and lines are forgotten.
It turns out that in real life, writer-director Shinichiro Ueda had his fair share of issues to tackle.
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