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<\/a><\/p>\nR100<\/strong>
\nHITOSHI MATSUMOTO, 2013
\nJAPAN | JAPANESE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES | FORMAT: DCP | 98 MINUTES
\nHitoshi Matsumoto is Japan\u2019s most famous comedian, but even if you\u2019ve seen his absurdist movies like Big Man Japan and Symbol you\u2019ll barely be prepared for the S&M antics of this straight-faced send-up of every single genre in Japanese cinema. R100 starts as one of those humdrum, realistic, slice-of-life Japanese dramas about a lonely, single father. But this boring furniture salesman hires an exclusive gentleman\u2019s bondage club to torment him. They dispatch dangerous dominatrixes at random to torture him as he goes about his everyday routine, and he soon realizes that life doesn\u2019t come with a safeword. Dominatrixes are beating the tar out of him at work, at home, on the street, and in his dying wife\u2019s hospital room. He tries to stop the contract, but is informed that the more he begs for mercy, the more they can tell he\u2019s actually turned on. And that\u2019s when the movie\u2019s genre gets tortured out of shape, and by the time the end credits roll it\u2019s become a deadpan parody of square Japanese action movies of the 1960s. You\u2019ll have no clue as to how it got from point A to point B, but the journey is so insane that you won\u2019t mind. This is one of the funniest movies of the year, with something profound to say about the pursuit of pleasure, girl gangs, dominatrix armies, and total bondage warfare.<\/p>\n