The movie makes a couple of feeble attempts to pass itself off as a mock documentary made by the Chinese students about their Japanese benefactor.
A mock documentary clearly inspired by the career of Roger Corman.
Why making The Office as a mock documentary was so difficult to do.
It does not have a traditional dramatic narrative; it takes the form of a mock documentary in 92 short parts.
His short films are mock documentaries, full of useless information, complete with deadpan narration pulling against the bright, pretty pictures.
He narrated the very first episode of the popular 1964 sitcom Bewitched, in mock documentary style.
The series itself is not a mock documentary but is shot in a somewhat similar cinéma vérité-like style.
Kaji received a measure of international celebrity with his 1999 partly autobiographical mock documentary Ekiben.
Other later efforts included a mock documentary showing Kokanee bottles migrating up a stream like salmon.
But this is a mordant anti-romance, designed as a mock documentary.