Red Post on Escher Street (2020) on Netflix
Tadashi Kobayashi is drafted to shoot a new film. The studio forces him to hire two famous actresses as leads, while aspiring actors audition and face their own struggles.
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Plot summary
Drafted to shoot a new film, Tadashi Kobayashi, a director with festival marketability, is strong-armed by the studio into hiring two famous actresses as leads. The cast of self-unaware weirdos that constitute the budding players become increasingly overwhelmed and emboldened until they stage their own micro-revolution.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Red Post on Escher Street (2020)
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- Sion Sono said his acting-workshop students paid to appear in the film, while newcomers he had hired in the past were paid for their participation, a difference that made him put more effort into training them.
- The final scene was unscripted and shot after principal photography had finished, filmed on location without extras; the police officers in it were hired actors, and Sono said he would not have minded if real police officers had turned up to stop the filming.
- The year before the film's release, Sono taught a workshop for aspiring actors and said simply training them was not enough, so he decided to make a film with them; he called it like a graduation project, made to support his students' careers rather than for theatres.
- Sono said some scenes were inspired by his own experiences as a director, including the scenes with the selfish producers, while other scenes were inspired by his students' efforts to become professional actors.
