Wet Hot Sake

1996 1h 10m JA

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4.4

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★4.4TMDB · 5

Comedy

Synopsis

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The best must be the freshest. The best sake also follows the same principle to brew in which it needs the best and freshest raw materials, and also the freshest virgin to make it? Visiting one of a Japanese pub that seems to offer the best warm sake, Mononobe tries to follow the steps to reproduce the same flavor. However, he suddenly found out that those flavors are actually a combination of sake, sweat, and other bodily secretions of a virgin. As his only daughter is not a virgin anymore, the only way to make the best sake without a pure virgin is...

“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”

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Cast

Toshiya Fujita
Morio Mononobe
Mamoru Watanabe
Yumedono
Yuya Miura
Souji Tsuneda
Misa Jono
Hotaru Hazuki
Conchita Matsumoto
Kenji Mizuhashi
Shū Minagawa

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Yōichi Nishiyama
Writers: Hajime Shimada
Languages: Japanese
Countries: Japan

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RUNTIME

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Tight 70-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.

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2 / 8

ERA

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30 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.

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3 / 8

RUNTIME

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Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.

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4 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by Hajime Shimada. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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5 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Nobutake Kamiya shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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6 / 8

CAST

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Toshiya Fujita and Mamoru Watanabe and Yuya Miura carry the top of the cast.

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7 / 8

WILD

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IMDB entry: tt0829253 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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8 / 8

WILD

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Only 5 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Yōichi Nishiyama directs. Hajime Shimada scores. Nobutake Kamiya cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in Japan. Dialogue in Japanese.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

1Tight 70-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
230 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
3Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
4Original score by Hajime Shimada. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
5Editor Nobutake Kamiya shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
6Toshiya Fujita and Mamoru Watanabe and Yuya Miura carry the top of the cast.
7IMDB entry: tt0829253 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
8Only 5 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.