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Acting
Naomi Nishida's feral physical transformation into money-crazed survivalist
Direction
Yaguchi's deadpan staging of increasingly unhinged scenarios
Editing
Sharp comic timing that lets absurdity breathe

Director
Shinobu Yaguchi
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