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Strange Circus

2005 · 108 min

A queasy, hallucinatory descent through layered realities that unsettles and confuses, demanding you piece together a fractured, disturbing puzzle.

Tagline
Reality is the mystery…
Overview
The erotic novelist Taeko is writing a morbid story of a family destroyed by incest, murder and abuse. Her assistant, Yuji, sets on a mission to uncover the reality of this story, but the reality might be too much to bear.

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Tone
  • darkstrength 3 of 3
  • eeriestrength 3 of 3
  • bleakstrength 2 of 3
  • absurdstrength 2 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • trauma
  • identity
  • madness
  • family
  • memory
Places
  • home
  • big city
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • twist ending
  • nonlinear
  • unreliable narrator
Content intensity
  • Gore strong
  • Language mild
  • Violence strong
  • Sex strong
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror8
Humour2
Realism5
Romance1
Tension8
Darkness9
Complexity9
Emotional weight9

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Details

Genres
mystery, horror, drama
Directed by
Sion Sono
Written by
Sion Sono
Starring
Rie Kuwana, Masumi Miyazaki, Seiko Iwaido, Issei Ishida, Fujiko, Madamu Rejînu, Tomorowo Taguchi, Hiroshi Ohguchi
Music
Sion Sono
Cinematography
Yuichiro Otsuka
Runtime
108 min
Country
Japan
Languages
Japanese

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