Who's Camus Anyway?

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Who's Camus Anyway?

2005

1h 55m

Drama

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A group of eccentric students sets out to make a movie, but when the star suddenly quits, the cast begins to live the film.

Ed Gonzalez

Slant Magazine

09/26/2005

3.5/4

Who's Camus Anyway doesn't simply reflect our love for the movies, it responds to it as well.

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Kirk Honeycutt

The Hollywood Reporter

05/20/2005

Energy and comedy are in large supply in writer-director Mitsuo Yanagimachi's Who's Camus Anyway?, yet another riff on the levels of reality that occur when a cast and crew make a movie.

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Panos Kotzathanasis

Asian Movie Pulse

02/21/2021

"Who's Camus Anyway?" is an impressive movie that highlights the utter command Yanagimachi had of the medium, and a more than fitting swan song of one of the most important filmmakers of contemporary Japanese cinema.

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Doug Cummings

Filmjourney

11/01/2006

While it's chock full of film references, colorful characters, and social eccentricities, its true sophistication emerges gradually, posing complex questions about the roles of fantasy, identity, and volition in modern life.

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John A. Nesbit

Old School Reviews

08/22/2006

B

Yanagimachi's inventive film about a collegiate film school project contains tangled webs of melodramatic fun along with moments of self-reflection

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Leo Goldsmith

Not Coming to a Theater Near You

03/24/2006

The Japanese propensity for faithful imitation is the focus of Yanagimachi's film, and, most of all, the imitation of life through the cinema.

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06/30/2017

This works on so many levels. It's ultra literate. It's incredibly witty visually. It leaves you breathless.

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12/19/2013

great fun for cinephiles

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06/25/2012

Now streaming on Netflix. This film is just bursting with life and energy. Yanigimachi's choreography of actors and extras is both bustling but controlled. It seems like anything could happen in this movie.

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06/06/2012

(****): [img]http://images.rottentomatoes.com/images/user/icons/icon14.gif[/img] I was really surprised by how much I liked this film. I found it to be near-perfect. A very intriguing story, solid direction, and a strong cast. One of my new favorites.

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02/09/2012

The last part...T__T

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03/26/2011

Shows interesting points of the bureaucracy of making a movie and has a lot of references that makes analogies in the movie work. Luckily, I've got the main reference to Albert Camus' Meursault because of a "The Cure" song, but the movie may not make much sense if you don't know the references... I'd probably give it a 3 out of 5 in that case. =P Anyway, the movie makes a good mix of what's happening in the movie they are making and what happens in "real life".

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Shuuji Kashiwabara

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Hinano Yoshikawa

Yukari

Ai Maeda

Hisada

Hideo Nakaizumi

Ikeda

Tetsuji Tamayama

Hiroshi Nishiura

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Synopsis

A group of eccentric students sets out to make a movie, but when the star suddenly quits, the cast begins to live the film.

Director: Mitsuo Yanagimachi
Producer: Kazuo Shimizu
Screenwriter: Mitsuo Yanagimachi
Production Co: Breath
Genre: Drama
Original Language: Japanese
Release Date (Streaming): Apr 12, 2017
Runtime: 1h 55m