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A woman named Saki is discovered covered in blood and sat next to the body of an actor in the elevator hall of a condominium. She smokes a cigarette and seems stunned. The film takes audiences back two years in the past, a time when Saki, a staff member on a film, met the actor, Sho, on set and fell in love. He used her badly and had another woman on the side and so Saki reveals how strong her love is and the event occurs that night we first meet her. A short film directed by Shinzo Katayama, whose debut feature film Siblings of the Cape attracted and was screened in different countries. He also has a credit as an AD on Bong Joon-Ho’s mystery-thriller film Mother and Nobuhiro Yamatshita’s The Drudgery Train. The script is by Yukiko Sode who is responsible for Good Stripes and Aristocrats.

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What is The Man Who Was There (2020) about?

A woman named Saki is discovered covered in blood and sat next to the body of an actor in the elevator hall of a condominium. She smokes a cigarette and seems stunned. The film takes audiences back two years in the past, a time when Saki, a staff member on a film, met the actor, Sho, on set and fell in love. He used her badly and had another woman on the side and so Saki reveals how strong her…

Who stars in The Man Who Was There?

The Man Who Was There stars Yaeko Kiyose (Saki Kagami), Hidekazu Yasui (Sho), Yuya Matsuura (Detective), Eriko Nakamura, Sawaka Minaguchi. The film was directed by Shinzo Katayama.

How long is The Man Who Was There?

The Man Who Was There has a runtime of 34 min and premiered in 2020.

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