6/10
Sion Sono's newest, written and directed for his "muse" Megumi Kagurazaka (who also appeared in Cold Fish and the upcoming Himizu). The story is familiar enough - a bored, ultra-conservative stay-at-home wife, seeks thrills by discovering her own sexuality while her husband is at work. Being a Sono movie, the film goes all over the place, but it actually remains surprisingly predictable. There's definitely some interesting stuff here but on the whole it feels half-baked and slapdash. Despite their similarities, Sono doesn't usually remind me of Takashi Miike, but this movie did feel at times like one of those lesser Miike works that he seems to churn out while he has something bigger in the pipeline.
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