The ones in on the joke are just going to clap their hands with glee.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Nov 1, 2024

Within the stylish composition, these subtle excursions of realism emphasize the very absurdity of what befalls our main character: Takafumi Katayama.

| Jul 26, 2021

Fans of Matsumoto are likely to be reeled in, but inexplicable twists and turns aggravate its intermittent flashes of interest.

| Jul 18, 2019

It makes for a hit and miss experience, with some scenes so singularly strange that I wish it could have worked out much better than it actually did.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jun 26, 2019

R100 is a a hilarious, bizarre and hypnotic ride that is absolutely unforgettable. Think Eyes Wide Shut mixed with The Game, seen through a comedic Japanese lens and you're on the right track.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 30, 2018

Part Netflix with whips, part Russian roulette with platform heels, R100 is surprisingly well made.

| Aug 21, 2018

The self-reflexivity, the bone-dry salaryman foibles, the sudden appearance of Office-style interviews among the assorted dominatrices-are attenuated by a hopelessly tedious A-plot.

| Nov 22, 2017

A cinematic interpretation of Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" filtered through the sexual taboo of Japan, R100 will entertain and perplex.

| Original Score: B | Jun 27, 2016

I think the film veers off too far into such strangeness (could there be a Japanese 온라인카지노추천 game show spun off from all this?), but connoisseurs of this kind of thing will find the ripeness hard to resist.

| Dec 21, 2015

Matsumoto stamps his lurid creation as inappropriate for all audiences under the age of 100 - which some will consider sound advice.

| Mar 5, 2015

R100 is primarily a parade of kink, topped off with explicit allegory for pushing subversive art past prudes.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 23, 2015

Even if you like bizarre movies, you'll probably like "R100," then hate it, then go back to liking it, then wonder what you're looking at. And then the movie will end.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 23, 2015

"R100" suggests that extreme and perverse films allow the everyman to seek thrills in his otherwise-monotonous life.

| Jan 22, 2015

Matsumoto works overtime to keep this vital once the basic premise has been established, but the cultural subtext is so potent that he really can't go wrong.

| Jan 22, 2015

Heady stuff, indeed, but perfect midnight-date movie fare if you're, uh, in the mood.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 22, 2015

A little punishment goes a long way, especially for the rest of us, yet on it drags, torturously, slap, kick, slap, kick.

| Jan 22, 2015

Matsumoto says he wanted to make a film that transcended the idea of genre, and in that respect, he has succeeded admirably.

| Original Score: B+ | Jan 22, 2015

You'd expect more yucks from the country that bequeathed tentacle porn.

| Original Score: C | Jan 21, 2015

When the film works, it isn't because Matsumoto is playing to the cult-movie crowd, but because he's sympathetic to all the Takafumis out there who fade into the background.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 21, 2015

The set pieces follow their own insane, unstoppable logic, with each new twist yielding its own outré surprises.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 17, 2015