The Man Who Was There
2020, Japanese. Directed by Shinzo Katayama.
A woman named Saki is discovered covered in blood and sat next to the body of an actor in the elevator hall of a condominium. She smokes a cigarette and seems stunned. The film takes audiences back two years in the past, a time when Saki, a staff member on a film, met the actor, Sho, on set and fell in love. He used her badly and had another woman on the side and so Saki reveals how strong her love is and the event occurs that night we first meet her. A short film directed by Shinzo Katayama, whose debut feature film Siblings of the Cape attracted and was screened in different countries. He also has a credit as an AD on Bong Joon-Ho’s mystery-thriller film Mother and Nobuhiro Yamatshita’s The Drudgery Train. The script is by Yukiko Sode who is responsible for Good Stripes and Aristocrats.
- Runtime
- 0h 34m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Japanese
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- Released
- 13 November 2020
- Original title
- そこにいた男
- Country
- Japan
- Written by
- Yukiko Sode
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The Man Who Was There runs 34 minutes (0h 34m).
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The Man Who Was There isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 13 November 2020. (Checked 12 November 2026.)
What movies are like The Man Who Was There?
If you liked The Man Who Was There, try True Believer, No One Would Tell, Siberian Education.
Who directed The Man Who Was There?
The Man Who Was There (2020) was directed by Shinzo Katayama and stars Yaeko Kiyose, Hidekazu Yasui, Yuya Matsuura.