Continuity mistake: When Vera is holding her hospital ID, her left hand is touching the top left-hand corner. In the next shot, her left hand is touching the bottom left-hand corner. (00:46:20)
Casual Person
26th Jul 2022
Mirage (2018)
26th Jul 2022
Mirage (2018)
Continuity mistake: When Vera is shown David's file by the doctor, whilst he says "You extracted a meningioma from his brain", she scratches the side of her head with her left hand and some hair is showing sticking up after doing so. When the camera changes angles, the hair is no longer sticking up. (00:44:10)
26th Jul 2022
Mirage (2018)
Continuity mistake: When Nico hears the television whilst drawing Vera's face, he picks up the drawing and goes to the television. When he stands up, he is holding the drawing so that his right hand is positioned toward the bottom of the right-hand side of the page. In the next shot, his right hand is closer to the middle of the page. (00:42:24)
26th Jul 2022
Mirage (2018)
Continuity mistake: When Vera is in David's office, after she says "Gloria is our daughter", the shot cuts to David for a brief moment. The shot then cuts to Vera and her left hand is suddenly touching the side of her head, which she was not doing in the previous shot. (00:37:45)
26th Jul 2022
Mirage (2018)
Continuity mistake: Vera opens a tape case in a position where the tape is on the left-hand side. The shot then cuts and the case has rotated with the tape now being on the right-side of the case. (00:26:55)
26th Jul 2022
Mirage (2018)
Continuity mistake: When Vera wakes up in the middle of the night, she switches on a light and goes to sit up. In the first shot, her hair is shown over the side of her shoulder and going onto her arm. The camera changes angles and her hair is suddenly in front of her shoulder. (00:25:20)
26th Jul 2022
Mirage (2018)
Continuity mistake: When David is explaining to Vera where the matches came from, in the shot of him saying "I promise. Let's do something", Vera is holding David's trousers in her hands. David then goes to take the matches off her and the trousers are now over her left arm. (00:24:14)
26th Jul 2022
Mirage (2018)
Continuity mistake: When Vera and David are speaking before going to bed, Vera is shown with a load of hair over her right shoulder. In the shot of her saying "You don't have to explain", the hair over her shoulder is spread across her chest differently compared to other shots. (00:24:10)
26th Jul 2022
Mirage (2018)
Continuity mistake: When Vera picks up David's trousers, she is holding them so that her right hand is positioned above her left hand. But in the next shot, her right and left hand are level with each other. (00:23:18)
26th Jul 2022
Mirage (2018)
Continuity mistake: When Vera and David find the old camera and video tapes, David picks up the camera briefly before putting it back down. When he puts it back down, he places his thumb on top of it. In the next shot, his thumb is away from the top and along the side. (00:16:56)
26th Jul 2022
Mirage (2018)
Continuity mistake: Whilst Vera is washing her hands, after she says "So you're lucky" to the surgeon, she is shown lowering her hand. In the next shot, her hand is raised again. (00:13:20)
26th Jul 2022
Mirage (2018)
Continuity mistake: When Vera and her daughter are in bed, just as Vera says "You've only been here one night", the daughter has her hand placed against Vera's chest. The shot cuts to the daughter and isn't shown moving, but when it cuts back, her hand has suddenly moved an inch or two to the left. (00:08:30)
26th Jul 2022
Mirage (2018)
Continuity mistake: When Vera wakes up next to her daughter, there is nothing shown in her daughter's hand. When Vera goes to wake her up a second later, Vera's hand and the girl's hand are suddenly touching. (00:08:12)
19th Jul 2022
Tampopo (1985)
Continuity mistake: Whilst everyone is eating breakfast, the boy puts some rice in a wrap, and then places it in his mouth. He is holding the food in his right hand when he does this, but when the shot cuts, he is using his left hand. (00:12:56)
19th Jul 2022
The Funeral (1984)
Continuity mistake: When Chizuko is first introduced, she is having her makeup and hair done by a group of stylists. A man with a makeup brush is shown brushing the left-hand side of her face. When the camera cuts to a closer shot of Chizuko, the makeup brush is now on the right-hand side of her face. (00:08:30)
19th Jul 2022
The Boys (2019)
Continuity mistake: Whilst Neuman is having lunch with Hughie, when she asks "How'd surveillance go with Termite last night", she has her fork placed in the salad bowl. When the shot cuts to focus on Hughie, the fork is now in her mouth and then she lowers it back into the salad bowl. (00:17:48)
6th Jun 2022
Tampopo (1985)
Continuity mistake: When Sensei raises the bowl of noodles toward his mouth so that he can drink the broth, the chopsticks he is holding are positioned outside the bowl. The camera changes angles and the chopsticks are now suddenly in the bowl. The chopsticks that Gun is holding also go from outside the bowl, to inside the bowl in between shots. (00:06:37)
6th Jun 2022
Tampopo (1985)
Continuity mistake: When Gun is having lunch with the Sensei, Gun picks up a bowl of noodles as well as two chopsticks. At first, the two chopsticks are facing outwards. But in the next shot, the two chopsticks are facing inwards toward the bowl. (00:03:53)
6th Jun 2022
The Funeral (1984)
Continuity mistake: When Yoshiko and Aoki are leaving the funeral, in the shot of them driving past Inoue, Yoshiko is sitting down in the passenger seat, facing forwards. In the next shot, she suddenly has her right arm placed against the back, and is facing 90° to the right so that she can wave goodbye to Inoue. (01:12:06)
6th Jun 2022
The Funeral (1984)
Continuity mistake: When Inoue starts kissing Yoshiko, there is a moment where she puts her left hand on the left side of his hair. When the camera changes angles, her left hand is now on his upper back. (01:03:18)
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