Not Quite Dead Yet (2020)

Profile

• Movie: Not Quite Dead Yet (English title) / I Tried Dying Once (working English title)
• Romaji: Ichido Shinde Mita

• Japanese: 一度死んでみた
• Director: Shinji Hamasaki
• Writer: Yoshimitsu Sawamoto
• Producer: Shigeaki Yoshida, Kaoru Matsuzaki, Tomohiro Nagae, Hirofumi Yamabe
• Cinematographer: Tetsuya Kondo
• Release Date: March 20, 2020
• Runtime: 93 min.
• Distributor: Shochiku
• Language: Japanese
• Country: Japan

Synopsis

Nanase Nobata (Suzu Hirose) is in the 4th grade at a university. She lives with her father Kei (Shinichi Tsutsumi). Her father is the CEO of a pharmaceutical company. Nanase Nobata’s relationship with her father is not very good. One day, her father Kei drinks a drug which is supposed to make him die and come back to life 2 days later. He did this because he wants to figure out who is trying to steal from his company, but something goes wrong. Kei appears again as a ghost. Nanase tries to restore his life with help of Taku Matsuoka (Ryo Yoshizawa) who works at Kei’s pharmaceutical company.