Hold Up Down

Hold Up Down (ホールドアップダウン, 2005) is a Japanese crime comedy you can watch online on iFILM. On Christmas Eve, two men in Santa Claus costumes rob a bank. Clean exit, cash in hand. Their getaway car has just been towed.

What follows is a cascading chain of setbacks: a sprint into the Tokyo subway, a stash in a coin locker, a missing key, and the gradual accumulation of everyone else who also had a terrible day. Director Sabu — known for precise, offbeat Japanese comedies — times each disaster so the next one lands harder. The leads are members of the Japanese pop group V6, and they handle the physical comedy well enough to surprise. Stream Hold Up Down (2005) online on iFILM.