Synopsis
M For Father
Ruthless dominatrixes pursue a mild-mannered salesman who wants to get out of his unbreakable contract with a secret bondage club.
2013 Directed by Hitoshi Matsumoto
Ruthless dominatrixes pursue a mild-mannered salesman who wants to get out of his unbreakable contract with a secret bondage club.
SM的逆襲, R100 - Härter ist besser, 限制级100岁, 父亲是个受虐狂, 100禁, Невольник R100
R100 jokingly refers to the rating. It is a riff on the Japanese movie rating system, whose equivalent to NC-17 is R18. So they are saying that no one under 100 should be seeing this film.
Hopefully Matsumoto will make more films. He definitely has a vision.
Watched the Drafthouse Blu-ray
It's quirky, kinky and unlike anything you have ever seen before! Some cross themselves, praying they never see anything like it ever again while others speak in tongues, writhing in cinephile ecstasy and can't seem to get enough of it! No need wondering which group I fall into just check out my nick it's pretty self explanatory! ;-)
Hitoshi Matsumoto takes a satirical swing at the motion picture rating system and draws first blood! The running gag throughout the film involves the movie title which refers to the director's self imposed movie rating of R100 (No one under 100 years of age)!
Between the Ninja Bondage Babes kicking or humiliating Katayama's ass, Queen of Gobbling gobbling up the darnedest things, Katayama's distorted orgasmic puss encircled with rippling rings, Hamburger Hill-esque scene with Bondage Babes bouncing and blowing up right and left I was totally awestruck and dumbfounded and rightfully so!
R100. 2013. Directed by Hitoshi Matsumoto.
R100, the title is a joke in the film that the audience would need to be at least 100 years old to see the graphic material.
R100 (2013) is a film that seems to hybridize elements of A Snake of June (2002) and Maitresse (1976) however, with some CGI added for comedy and gore. R100 is a laugh out loud Japanese film about a man whose wife is in a persistent vegetative state (coma) and he hires an Japanese S&M company to randomly surprise him for one year. This bizarre decision is to help he and his son feel (life) again. As he battles with numbness, the company starts to break rules and their contract. What will he do? What are the consequences of a Yakuza like S&M company?
Viewed on AppleTV.
Lists:
Japanese Films
Asian Cinema List
Film Noir, Neo-Noir List
This movie likes to think it's kinky. Like the whole premise is around a unfulfilled businessman who signs a year contract with a BDSM club to have random dominatrixes humiliate him any time, any place. So you know, a dream come true.
But then all they do for the vast majority of the time is beat him up, which you know, is definitely something people like. But its also not the only thing in BDSM. There are portions of other kinks throughout the film, but I was a little disappointed in the portrayal of BDSM. Not that they were like manipulating him and it was an unhealthy portrayal of BDSM, because I personally am fine with overexaggeration of the dangers…
This movie did my taxes, made me a sushi dinner, and pleased me to such a degree that my face is now permanently warped out of shape. Very few movies make me cry laughing from the first to last frame but the tears just kept coming and the genius just never let up. If you ever wished there was a Japanese version of The Game but with funk music, dominatrixes, horny CGI, and 100 years worth of kink wisdom – it is my pleasure to introduce you to R100, perhaps the greatest piece of art of the 21st century.
Here lies Samantha, a lover of cinema who left this world due to an inability to continue breathing by the end…
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Admirably quirky, strange and defiantly not like anything else. However, for me, quite gratingly so. It is the kind of movie that I'm glad exists: an expression of unchecked oddness that shows a unique filmic voice. It is a feature length gag, or collection of gags; the issue comes when the gag doesn't hit.
To begin with, the purposefully drained colour palette implies sincerity. It seems like a sombre, but darkly funny, reflection on soul crushing modernity and on the nature of grief. Modernity is certainly part of it, the colour grading doing its job of showing a world that our character is willing to break free of, but it is…
I've been avoiding writing a review for this film because, to be honest, how the fuck can you comment on this film? What the hell am I going to say about it?
The fact is, this is one of those instances where you come across an artwork and the sheer genius of it makes you feel quite small. Like "wow, that is so a million miles beyond anything I could ever hope to achieve artistically". And as is common in that situation (for me at least) I don't think I can really articulate why I think it's so amazing. It's just beyond me, basically.
Now, I have a lot yet to see from the body of work of exciting Japanese…
It's low-key great that we can get this much weirdness in 100 minutes, as this pretty much maxes out the Weird-o-meter. And not because of the BDSM! That has to be the most normal part.
This movie is funny! The best parts had me laughing out loud. The time between those moments holds the film back for me, but hey, others find it hilarious throughout.
The opening is a man who deals with the pain of having his wife in a coma by hiring BDSM professionals to humiliate him. The final act feels (and often looks!) like it could be a Sin City film, if they were comedies. The middle act turns into more of a Yakuza thriller, except--again--it's all BDSM.
Like I said, weird as it gets.
Pretty good film, and bonkers climax! But I expected more bondage and an overall sexier film than I got 😕