Antiporno
Asian Cinema
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Drama, Romance
Kyoko, a young artist with a sadomasochistic streak, wreaks havoc on everyone that she encounters, but her absolute worst behavior is reserved for her simpering older assistant Noriko, whom she routinely humiliates in increasingly kinky ways. That is, until their sense of reality gets upended in an exuberantly reflexive twist.
An outrageous, rabble-rousing contribution to the Roman Porno Reboot series, ANTIPORNO is an expectation-defying, antic study in blighted eroticism, damaged psyches, and shifting power dynamics, set against outlandishly theatrical backdrops; “a feverish op-art dream that turns on us at every corner.” (Slant Magazine)
DIRECTED BY SION SONO
JAPAN | 2016 | JAPANESE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES
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