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R100

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R100

Released Jan 23, 2015

1h 40m

Comedy

Drama

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Ruthless dominatrixes pursue a mild-mannered salesman who wants to get out of his unbreakable contract with a secret bondage club.

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Critics Consensus

R100 definitely isn't for everyone, but audiences open to writer-director Hitoshi Matsumoto's fetish-driven thrills will find it a suitably perverse pleasure to watch.

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Simon Abrams

RogerEbert.com

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.

Rated: 3/4

Jan 23, 2015

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Martin Tsai

Los Angeles Times

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

Jan 22, 2015

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J. R. Jones

Chicago Reader

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

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Grant Watson

Fiction Machine

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

Rated: 7/10

Nov 1, 2024

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Pieter-Jan Van Haecke

Psychocinematography

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

Jul 26, 2021

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Nicholas Bell

IONCINEMA.com

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

Jul 18, 2019

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Jeffrey P

One of the more demented films to ever captivate. It’s not quite the same level as The Human Centipede, but there are definitely some things you’ll wish you’d never seen.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

08/27/24

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Rick R

good acting, but I never got into this movie.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

06/07/24

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Dante R

Oh my God, this movie is so funny. Lindsay Kay Hayward's entrance had me dying! I re-watched that scene so many times. There's a good deal of slapstick (not complaining) but the more subtle humorous scenes are done well. Sometimes I'd be watching it and I'd be like, "Oh shit, that's a little too far", but it's really not, it's funny! Loved the movie in a movie concept. Loved the mini-documentary style vignettes of the dominatrices. It's my favorite Matsumoto film.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/09/23

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Audience Member

A movie with interminable interpretations. Entertaining yet difficult to grasp. The character descended into sexual dissipation, and that much I understand. In actuality you can make no sense of what is actually happening, or the true meaning of the film as it heads into a bizarre outcome.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

02/19/23

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The most illogical, bizarre movie I’ve seen to date. The movie eventually turns into sci-fi, with a Japanese-woman becoming an alien with an enormous mouth to eat humans with. If you’re like me, you probably said “what the fuck”after you read that last sentence. Maybe you’ll like this movie, however, that is only possible if you simultaneously like being spanked by tall, Japanese women with a BMI of 18.2. If you’re like the rest of us, this movie is beyond a waste of time.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

01/23/22

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My wife and I love nonsensical movies but this one really takes the cake. We've seen the likes of Ichi the Killer, Trainspotting, Gozu, and other absolute mind-boggling movies but this film was beyond our scope of rational comprehension. It made us laugh hysterically but I still have no idea what this movie was about and I like it that way.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

01/27/23

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Synopsis

Ruthless dominatrixes pursue a mild-mannered salesman who wants to get out of his unbreakable contract with a secret bondage club.

Director: Hitoshi Matsumoto
Producer: Keisuke Konishi, Akihiko Okamoto, Kazuyoshi Okuyama, Natsue Takemoto
Screenwriter: Hitoshi Matsumoto, Mitsuyoshi Takasu, Tomoji Hasegawa, Kôji Ema, Mitsuru Kuramoto
Distributor: Drafthouse Films
Production Co: Warner Bros., Yoshimoto Kogyo Company, Phantom Film
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Original Language: Japanese
Release Date (Theaters): Jan 23, 2015, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 10, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA): $22.8K
Runtime: 1h 40m

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