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A smart, prickly and rewarding view of sexual and emotional confusion
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Too long and drawn out but very entertaining with excellent special effects
This is a peculiar play and does not work for me. Some of it is very funny but there are real flaws
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Dir: Sion Sono.
Cast: Makiko Watanabe, Atsura Watabe, Hikari Mitsushima, Atsuro Watabe, Takahiro Nishijima, Sakura Ando
Description: Emotionally scarred by the death of his mother, teenager Yu struggles to reconnect with his grieving, Catholic priest father. The youngster decides that the best way to get closer to the old man is by committing sins so he has to attend confession. In the process, Yu begins taking covert photographs up the skirts of young girls, bringing him into contact with beautiful Aya Hoike.
Country: JAP. 237mins
Hard to get: Yoko (Mitsushima Hikari) becomes the object of Yu's desire
If you can stand its length, this winner of the International Critics’ Prize at the Berlin Film Festival from Japanese director Shion Sono has some extraordinary things in it.
It manages to combine slapstick, manga-type action, romance and drama into a weird commentary on religion, morality, sex and the particularly Japanese perversion of tosatsu (covertly taking up-skirt photographs of unsuspecting young women in the street).
Our distressed young hero Yu (Takahiro Nishijima) learns to take the photographs in a hilarious sequence and ultimately finds that the tension between lust and love may well be surmountable.
He is pushed towards this perversion because his father, who later becomes a Catholic priest, forces his son to confess his sins every day. The prayerful boy thinks: “Why not actually sin? It might make the confessions more bearable.”
Thereafter the film bounds on regardless with its treatise on phoney morality and the human condition, which Sono orchestrates with great energy. Take a deep breath and dip in.
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