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The films of Sion Sono frequently demand the viewer’s attention if the most is to be got from each experience.
With this tale of murder in a derelict building of a Tokyo red light district and the flashback events leading up to it concerning unsatisfied Izumi, token wife to her novelist husband, who embarks on a journey of sexual discovery, both liberating and dangerous, most will be put off by the many darkly challenging subtexts at play.
Granted his depictions of human frailty and, ultimately, our failings continues to be highly confrontational, yet Sono remains one of more interesting directors working in cinema today.