TAG (2015)

Japan. Direction: Sion Sono. Production: Masayuki Tanishima Ryuichiro Inagaki Takahiro Ohno / Tag Film Partners. Screenplay: Sion Sono. Photography: Maki Ito. Music: Tomoatsu Kikuchi. Edition: Junichi Ito. Cast: Reina Triendl, Mariko Shinoda, Erina Mano, Yuki Sakurai, Maryjun Takahashi. Running time: 85 min

LANGUAGE: Japanese / SUBTITLES: Spanish, English

Poet. Performer. Actor. Brutal. Admired. Hated. Respected. Adored. Celebrated. Hunted. Interviewed. Encircled. Man of the street. Author of the film that stopped our pulse in 2002 right from its very first scene: The Suicide Club. Creatures of the night, from East and West, Sion Sono is back amongst us. The opening scene of Tag (which Variety compares with delicious audacity to Alice in any wonderland) has nothing to envy from that one about the metro and fat: two buses packed with our favourite kind of schoolgirls (Japanese, of course), a girl who writes a poem and... a killer wind! While many consider the film to be "gory & profeminist", others think it tears women to shreds. Some folks just never get anything...