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Snakes and Earrings

2008 · 123 min

A slow, unsettling plunge into desire and self-destruction, where intimacy and pain blur in a Tokyo nightworld that feels both alluring and dangerous.

Overview
While alone in a nightclub, straight-laced Lui meets sensitive but troubled punk kid Ama. Mesmerized by his split tongue, she becomes obsessed with body modification and soon wants the same treatment. After Ama's heavily-tattooed friend Shiba pierces her tongue, Lui finds herself inexorably drawn to both men – and to her growing list of desires, she now adds a tattoo.

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Tone
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • romanticstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • obsession
  • identity
  • love
  • isolation
  • betrayal
Places
  • big city
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language strong
  • Violence strong
  • Sex strong
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action3
Horror5
Humour1
Realism6
Romance6
Tension6
Darkness8
Complexity6
Emotional weight7

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Details

Genres
romance, thriller, crime
Directed by
Yukio Ninagawa
Written by
Yukio Ninagawa, Takuya Miyawaki
Starring
Yuriko Yoshitaka, Kengo Kora, Arata Iura, Yû Abiru, Sonim, Yuko Imai, Shūto Ayabe, Hidekazu Ichinose
Music
Masamichi Shigeno
Cinematography
Osamu Fujiishi
Runtime
123 min
Country
Japan
Languages
Japanese

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