{"id":2291535,"date":"2026-02-20T19:50:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T19:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2291535"},"modified":"2026-02-20T19:50:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T19:50:06","slug":"convenience-store-horror-comedy-anymart-director-iwasaki-yusuke-unpacks-his-berlinale-debut-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/convenience-store-horror-comedy-anymart-director-iwasaki-yusuke-unpacks-his-berlinale-debut-film\/","title":{"rendered":"Convenience Store Horror-Comedy \u2018AnyMart\u2019: Director Iwasaki Yusuke Unpacks His Berlinale Debut Film"},"content":{"rendered":"

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What does it take to drain a person of their humanity? According to Iwasaki Yusuke, a convenience store uniform and a morning meeting ritual will do it. That unsettling observation is the foundation of \u201cAnyMart,\u201d his Berlinale Forum debut feature \u2014 and one that carries the weight of personal experience. Iwasaki<\/a> watched it happen to his own father, a lively town liquor store owner who became, in his son\u2019s telling, \u201cinorganic and lacking humanity\u201d after taking over a convenience store.<\/p>\n

Sometani Shota stars as Sakai<\/a>, a convenience store clerk who clocks in, recites the employee pledges, restocks the shelves, and feels nothing \u2014 until new recruit Ogawa<\/a> (Erika Karata<\/a>) arrives as one of several anomalies that send the store\u2019s standardized operations spiraling toward bloody ends.<\/p>\n

Fusing Aki Kaurism\u00e4ki<\/a>-esque deadpan with Kurosawa Kiyoshi-inflected slow-burn horror, the film follows Iwasaki\u2019s short \u201cVoid,\u201d which played International Film Festival Rotterdam\u2019s Tiger…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What does it take to drain a person of their humanity? According to Iwasaki Yusuke, a convenience store uniform and a morning meeting ritual will do it. That unsettling observation is the foundation of \u201cAnyMart,\u201d his Berlinale Forum debut feature \u2014 and one that carries the weight of personal experience. Iwasaki watched it happen to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2291536,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2291535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Convenience-Store-Horror-Comedy-\u2018AnyMart-Director-Iwasaki-Yusuke-Unpacks-His-Berlinale.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2291535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2291535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2291535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2291537,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2291535\/revisions\/2291537"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2291536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2291535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2291535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2291535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}