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OUT 14 FEBRUARY

CERTIFICATE 15 DIRECTOR Takashi Miike STARRING Masataka Kubota, Sakurako Konishi, Shôta Sometani, Nao Omori SCREENPLAY Masa Nakamura DISTRIBUTOR Signature Entertainment RUNNING TIME 108 mins

It’s been said that is a return to form for Japanese filmmaker Takashi Miike. But which form would that be, exactly? After all, the prolific director has helmed more than 100 films and TV shows across just three decades, adapting his energetic – if frequently scrappy – style to each new genre he tackles, be it twisted family drama (), musical (), horror (), superhero comedy (), videogame movie (), or classical samurai film ().

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