

At a strange movie theater, everyone gets sucked into the film they're watching. The longer they stay, the less they remember about the real world!
Direction
Mizushima balances toilet humor with genuine melancholy.
Writing
Self-aware script that mocks its own existence.
Production
Genre-hopping visuals from western to noir to melodrama.

Director
Tsutomu Mizushima
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Mizushima's directorial debut for Shin-chan; he later became the franchise's most prolific director. The western parody specifically riffs on Sergio Leone's dollars trilogy.
The film subtly critiques Japan's workaholic culture through Hiroshi's office drone identity dissolving first—his 'salaryman' self literally forgotten before his family.
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