240 Hours in One Day

1970 • 0h 30m • Music, Science Fiction, Comedy

Commissioned for the 1970 Osaka Expo and originally shown on a four projection system at the spherical Automobile Pavilion. Set in a near future, the story follows a scientist and his assistant who invents an experimental accelerator drug that makes human activity run ten times faster, thereby expanding a single day into 10 days.

Director

Hiroshi Teshigahara

Writers

Kōbō Abe

Status

Released