240 Hours in One Day

240 Hours in One Day — Plot

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.

• Release date
• March 15, 1970
• Runtime
• 30 min
• Genres
• Music, Science Fiction, Comedy
• Director
• Hiroshi Teshigahara