R100

IMDB
First time viewed: Yes
Current Release: Yes
Watched With: Jordan, Amberly

Hitoshi Matsumoto is just as crazy as his other films, and just as surreal. A father contracts a bondage company to attack him at random over the next year. But things get out of hand. And ridiculous. This is all actually a film within the film made by a 100 year old director, being screened for the ratings board that have a hard time making sense of it. Deeming it only suitable for people over 100, hence the title.

Man it's a really odd film but a joy to get to watch in a cinema with a packed crowd laughing at the bizarre absurdity of it all. Like his other films I have a real problem with the pacing of it. He seems to delight in holding silence and shots far too long. I can get that's funny, especially for him but it can be torturous for the audience. Although one could take the ending of the film to suggest that that is entirely the point of the film. He gets away with plot holes and twists of logic by the explanation that the film is made by a senile old man. It's a bit of a cop out but it does make for some pretty funny stuff.

I definably like his other two films more but there's some really great moments in this one. It's certainly an odd experience.