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8. Beyond The Infinite Two Minutes
Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes is something of a spiritual successor to 2017's One Cut of the Dead - another low-budget Japanese genre film centered around supernatural phenomena unfolding over a seemingly single take.
But Junta Yamaguchi's film is sci-fi rather than horror, following a cafe owner (Kazunori Tosa) who discovers that his apartment's computer monitor can display two minutes into the future from the perspective of a TV in his cafe downstairs, while the cafe TV displays events from two minutes in the past.
It's a brain-breaking concept which sends the central characters on a mesmerising odyssey as they discover inventive ways to create larger windows into both the past and future.
Combined with the film being near-seamlessly presented as a single take, it results in a technically virtuosic piece of work in spite of its meager budget.
Shot on an iPhone and clocking in at a drum-tight 71 minutes, this is a no-nonsense affair that again proves that creativity will prevail no matter the scant resources a filmmaker might otherwise be working with.