Single8
In the summer of 1978, high school student Hiroshi, who is crazy about Star Wars, builds a miniature spaceship with his friend Yoshio and begins filming it with an 8mm camera. In order to complete it as a full movie, Hiroshi proposes it as the class's cultural festival project. He and his friends come up with a science fiction love story called “Time Reverse,” where aliens attempt to reverse Earth's time and redo human evolution, inspired by the reverse shooting function of their camera. But will Hiroshi’s crush Natsumi accept the lead role?
A nostalgic, feel-good comedy that harkens back to director Konaka Kazuya’s early days as a teenage filmmaker, Single8 celebrates youth, creativity, and the life-changing possibilities of cinema. It is a welcome addition to the Japanese film-within-a-film genre in the likes of One Cut of the Dead (2017). By focusing on the Single 8 camera and analogue filmmaking, Konaka adds a refreshing and joyful contribution to the long list of films celebrating filmmaking.
