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Masumi Miyazaki | ... |
Mitsuko /
Sayuri /
Taeko
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Yûji
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Rie Kuwana | ... |
Young Mitsuko
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Mai Takahashi | ... |
Young Mitsuko
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Fujiko |
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Madamu Rejînu |
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Mame Yamada |
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Pyûpiru |
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Erika Mine |
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Keiko Yokomachi |
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Tsutomu Ihara |
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Emiko Yamada |
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Rinco |
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Sachiko Yamagishi |
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Ken Sasaki |
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In Tokyo, the twelve year-old girl Mitsuko accidentally sees her parents having sex in their bedroom and her dysfunctional and pervert father Ozawa Gozo, who is the principal of her school, forces her to see her mother Sayuri having intercourse with him hidden inside a cello case. Then Osawa rapes Mitsuko and forces her mother to see the incestuous intercourse with their daughter. Osawa lives with Mitsuko and Sayuri and has sex with them, and Sayuri is jealous of her own daughter. The dysfunctional family is affected first by a murder and then by an attempt of suicide. But the bizarre story is actually a novel written by the disabled writer Taeko that uses a wheelchair to move. When her publisher visits her with his new hire Yuji, he gets close to her and helps Taeko to find the truth about her past. But in the end, which one is the dream? Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Country:
JapanLanguage:
JapaneseRelease Date:
6 March 2007 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Written by Johann Sebastian Bach
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This film marks the comeback of actress Miyazaki Masumi after a decade off the screen. See more »Soundtracks
"Aus der Tiefe Rufeich (Chorale Prelude) BWV 745"Written by Johann Sebastian Bach
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"Strange Circus" starts out as the story of 12-year-old Mitsuko,who's being sexually abused by her father Gozo and terrorized by her jealous mother Sayuri.Mitsuko is imprisoned in a cello case and forced to watch her parents' intimate liaisons through a peephole.The strange abuse causes Mitsuko to blur the distinction between her mother's pleasure and her own pain.When her mom dies after falling down the stairs,Mitsuko starts believing she is her mother.Sion Sono's return to ero-guro tradition is very stylish and sexually perverse.This strange film even offers lashings of paedophilia on display,fortunately they are not graphic.The carnival atmosphere of circus is well-developed and there is a nice amount of grue.Fans of more dream-like transgressive cinema should give it a look.