Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes

Name: Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes
Genre: Sci-Fi, Comedy
Released: January 25, 2022
Duration: 70 min
Cast: Aki Asakura, Chikara Honda, Gôta Ishida, Haruki Nakagawa, Kazunari Tosa

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Indiecan Entertainment | Release Date (Streaming): January 25, 2022 | Not Rated

Starring: Aki Asakura, Chikara Honda, Gôta Ishida, Haruki Nakagawa, Kazunari Tosa, Masashi Suwa, Munenori Nagano, Riko Fujitani, Takashi Sumita, Yoshifumi Sakai

Summary: Kato is a middle-aged shop owner in Kyoto, Japan who lives above his cafe. He spends his free time playing in a local band and sometimes thinking about Megumi, the woman in the barbershop next door with whom Kato is infatuated. One evening, after closing up the cafe, Kato is in his room when suddenly he appears on his own computer screen.Kato is a middle-aged shop owner in Kyoto, Japan who lives above his cafe. He spends his free time playing in a local band and sometimes thinking about Megumi, the woman in the barbershop next door with whom Kato is infatuated. One evening, after closing up the cafe, Kato is in his room when suddenly he appears on his own computer screen. The Kato on the screen is using the computer from downstairs in the cafe and claims to be from two minutes in the future. Kato is understandably confused and skeptical, but things get really strange when he goes down to the cafe computer, sees himself sitting back in his room, and begins to deliver the same message he heard two minutes before. It’s not long before Kato’s friends discover the phenomenon – which they dub “Time TV” – and devise a plan to go beyond the infinite two minutes.… Expand

Director: Junta Yamaguchi

Genre(s): Sci-Fi, Comedy

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 70 min

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Jeannette Catsoulis

Jan 25, 2022

While there is much to admire in this scrappy, micro-budgeted debut feature, its sci-fi shenanigans are too convoluted and its visuals too claustrophobic to sustain interest. Read full review

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Brent_Marchant

May 6, 2022

Imagine what it might be like to look into a TV screen and see into the future. Granted it’s only two minutes, but, when those who stumble onto this remarkable technology figure out how to manipulate it to extend that time window, all kinds of exciting possibilities surface. Unfortunately,Imagine what it might be like to look into a TV screen and see into the future. Granted it’s only two minutes, but, when those who stumble onto this remarkable technology figure out how to manipulate it to extend that time window, all kinds of exciting possibilities surface. Unfortunately, more than a few unexpected hiccups occur, too, some with potentially dire consequences. Such is the scenario presented to an overwhelmed café owner/musician (Kazunari Tosa), his staff, his friends and a would-be romantic interest (Aki Asakura) in this wacky Japanese sci-fi comedy. Filmmaker Junta Yamaguchi’s one-shot direction of writer Makoto Ueda’s cleverly penned screenplay is loaded with laughs, even if the script becomes somewhat repetitive at times as the basic premise of the narrative needs to be recapped for new characters each time they’re introduced in the storyline. However, the manic level of humor here is infectious in ways that only Japanese cinema seems to be able to pull off, tickling viewers’ funny bones in virtual perpetuity. You’ll never look at time – or TV – in the same way ever again.… Expand

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Yonkiman

Feb 4, 2023

This is a really entertaining film that looks a lot better than its $20,000 budget would suggest. Just when you think the conceit is about to get boring, there's a twist. I never felt I knew where it was going to go next (unlike so, so many movies and shows). My wife and I really enjoyed it.

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