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A Balasaur Score of 82 out of 100, drawn from IMDb 8/10, Rotten Tomatoes 90%, Metacritic 78/100. Scores higher than 99% of the 2,300 2000s comedy movies in this catalog. It runs long at 3h 57m.
Synopsis
The story of a teenage boy called Yu, who falls for Yoko, a girl he runs into while operating for the sake of sin as an upskirt photographer in an offshoot of the porn industry. His attempts to woo her are complicated by a spot of cross-dressing - which convinces Yoko that she is lesbian - dalliances with kung-fu and crime, and a constant struggle with the guilt that's a legacy of his Catholic upbringing.
Ratings
IMDb8/10
Rotten Tomatoes90%
Metacritic78/100
535 audience votes
Key crew
- Sion SonoDirector
- Sion SonoWriter
- Tomohide HaradaOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Takahiro NishijimaYu
- Hikari MitsushimaYoko
- Sakura AndoKoike
- Makiko WatanabeKaori
- Atsuro WatabeTetsu Tsunoda
- Yutaka ShimizuYuji
- Hiroyuki OnoueTakahiro
- Tasuku NagaokaSenior
- Sow HirosawaKumi
- Yūko GenkakuKeiko
- Mami NakamuraYu's Mother
- Arata YamanakaMaster Lloyd's Disciple
Stills
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Themes
kung futransvestiteunderwearcultlovecross dressingporn industrytough girlphilosophicaljapanese girl herocomplexintense
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