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Directed by Sion Sono
From the director of the cult hit Suicide Club comes an unsettling look at the life of a sexually-abused adolescent whose inability to distinguish her mother's pleasure from her own pain sends her down a dark and surreal path. Sexually molested by her father Gozu (Hiroshi Oguchi) and mentally tormented by her jealous mother Sayuri (Masumi Miyazaki), twelve-year old Mitsuko (Rie Kuwana) is locked in a cello case and forced to watch her parents perform a series of intimate acts. When Mitsuko's mother dies as the result of a fatal fall, the deeply disturbed young girl begins to believe that she has, in fact, been transformed into her own mother. Her father viewing the death of his wife and mental malaise of his daughter as a motivator to ramp up the incestuous relations with his increasingly unhinged offspring, Mitsuko eventually ends up restricted to a wheelchair following a failed suicide attempt. Later, it begins to appear that the preceding events were nothing more than the details of a new novel by reclusive, wheelchair-bound author Taeko (also Miyazaki). When Taeko's trusted editor places his fey personal assistant Yuji (Issei Ishida) in charge of the successful writer, the probing Yuji launches a clandestine investigation into Taeko's background while simultaneously being forced to satisfy her deepest and darkest fantasies. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
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""Strange Circus" defies a simple synopsis. I could spend this entire review explaining the intricacies of director Sion Sono's ("Suicide Club") 2005 film, but it would be useless. This film, verging on pornography, has to be seen to be believed or even understood. As a young girl, Mitsuko is thrust into a depraved world of voyeurism and sex by her father, her school principle. At first, the girl " [More]
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"I rememeber watching Strange Circus and thinking, "Hmm"? Now after seeing Sion Sono first film Suicide club. Suicide Club being the better of the two. Suicide club has a very dark/disturbing outlook on japanese culture via the internet and it even has its own Asian version of Britney Spears or gi " [More]
 

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