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Blade, The (1995)

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Tag / Sion Sono

September 11, 2020October 24, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Forest of Love, The (2019)

  • Sono, Sion
  • 2019, Japan, Sion Sono
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While it is a rather entertaining treatise on the extremes of power abuse, and contains the usual violent, sexual and immoral provocations that have characterised Sion Sono’s output, it ultimately doesn’t cut deep enough to be a rewarding experience.

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Rating: 3 out of 5.

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May 31, 2020May 31, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Love Exposure (2008)

  • Sono, Sion
  • 2008, Japan, Sion Sono
  • 2 Comments

Sion Sono’s deranged teenage romance about the perversities of sex and religion is wildly hilarious, controversial and satirical, and might be the briskest 4 hours you can spend in a movie.  

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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April 24, 2020May 10, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Antiporno (2016)

  • Sono, Sion
  • 2016, Japan, Sion Sono
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The enfant terrible of contemporary Japanese cinema gives the ‘Roman Porno’ series by Nikkatsu a cheeky middle finger with this ultra-bizarre, pretentiously-feministic meta-film.  

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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April 24, 2020April 24, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Guilty of Romance (2011)

  • Sono, Sion
  • 2011, Japan, Sion Sono
  • 1 Comment

Loads of explicit sex and misogyny wrapped in this study on sexual degradation and the politics of the (female) body, but wished it was more gripping.  

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Rating: 3 out of 5.

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