For adolescent fetishists of half-naked Japanese women, there is Sion Sono’s The Virgin Psychics. For everybody else, it would be less irritating to simply watch some pornography. Sion Sono has established a strong and well-earned reputation as one of Japan’s most idosyncratic … Continue reading REVIEW: The Virgin Psychics (2015)
One evening more than 50 teenage girls line a Tokyo subway platform, wait for an express arrival, and jump together to their deaths. As further suicides ensue across Japan, a trio of police detectives work around the clock to track … Continue reading REVIEW: Suicide Club (2001)
A massive earthquake hits Japan’s east coast, sending a nuclear reactor into meltdown and forcing the evacuation of the area. A 20 kilometre-wide exclusion zone is rapidly set up, with anybody within the zone urgently driven out of their homes. … Continue reading REVIEW: Land of Hope (2012)
For a while there Sion Sono really seemed to be out to claim the title of Japan’s busiest film director. While he has slowed down in recent years, in 2015 he managed to knock out five feature films and a … Continue reading REVIEW: Tag (2015)
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