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IMDb rating 7.1
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Critic Nick Schager

From sudden zooms and abrupt freeze frames to lengthy tracking shots, slow-motion, and CG-enhanced fantasy interludes...boasts an aesthetic insanity to match its uninhibited narrative.

Read full review at The A.V. Club
Critic Simon Abrams
rated 8

...a characteristically slippery mix of naive optimism, and gross-out, midnight-movie humor. It has the dense, novelistic structure of Sono's most elaborate scenarios...

Read full review at Roger Ebert

Cast & Crew

Sion Sono
Director
Sion Sono
Writer
Jun Kunimura
As Muto
Tarô Suwa
As Sumita
Akaji Maro
Actor
Denden
As Ramen Shop Owner
Tetsu Watanabe
As Detective Kimura

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In a world where violence and cinema collide, a group of passionate filmmakers must navigate the dangerous underworld of yakuza gangs to make their dream movie. Against all odds, they embark on a wild and violent journey to create a film that will leave their mark on history. But as tensions rise and the body count grows, will their artistic vision survive the brutal reality of the criminal underworld? Find out in this action-packed, adrenaline-fueled ride that blurs the lines between art and destruction.

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