‘Special Actors’ Review: Mildly Amusing Japanese Comedy No Match for Director’s ‘One Cut of the Dead’

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‘Special Actors’ Review: Mildly Amusing Japanese Comedy No Match for Director’s ‘One Cut of the Dead’
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Want to impress your date by fighting off her molestor? Wish your stand-up comedy act would bring the house down? Or looking to pack your grumpy grandpa’s funeral with keening mourners? Call “Speci…

,” is a daffy ensemble trickster comedy with a few “gotcha” twists. Although a year-end 2019 theatrical release in Asia achieved only average gains, festivals that saw roaring crowds at midnight screenings for “One Cut” can still expect return audiences.

Like a Victorian lady, Kazuto is acutely bashful and prone to fainting spells whenever he’s nervous. Instead of carrying smelling salts, he believes that fondling a woman’s breasts is a calming remedy. Since that’s currently out of his reach, he squeezes a rubber ball as a substitute. His therapist thinks the condition is psychosomatic but it’s enough to put a damper on his thespian dreams, although his lack of acting chops is probably a bigger career hurdle.

While the curious rent-a-family business has been amply explored on Japanese screens — in projects as diverse Sion Sono’s “Noriko’s Dining Table,” Shunji Iwai’s “The Bride of Rip van Winkle” and Werner Herzog’s “Family Romance, LLC” — the operation in this story takes Japanese customer service to a hilarious extreme, deploying a scriptwriter and acting coach to hold proper rehearsals with screenplays and storyboards.

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