Review of R100 (2013) by Andrew F — 12 Jun 2016
A hilarious black surreal comedy ripping apart modern Japanese culture (work and the corporate ethic, family, sex, sushi, male dominance, bukkake). R100 means you have to be 100 to see it, which means you were born in 1913, so you lived through most of the big 20th century changes in Japan.
On the surface it's about a man whose wife is in a coma and he hires a bondage company to humiliate him for a year, but, apart from odd moments of Joy and Beethoven's 9th symphony, it doesn't quite turn out how he wants.
It's a Japanese Clockwork Orange; it's a Japanese IF...I dare anyone to watch the first 2'46" and not be hooked (althhough it is true that nothing in it beats these first few minutes)! And Lindsay Kay Hayward is fabulous in it.
This review of R100 (2013) was written by Andrew F on 12 Jun 2016.
R100 has generally received mixed reviews.
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