France / Germany / Italy / Canada / Japan,
2009, 161 min
(Special edition: 143 min)
Directed by:
Gaspar NoéScreenplay:
Gaspar NoéCinematography:
Benoît DebieComposer:
Thomas BangalterCast:
Nathaniel Brown, Paz de la Huerta, Marina Stone, Olly Alexander, Emily Alyn Lind, Gaspar Noé, Toshio HanaokaPlots(1)
Oscar and his sister Linda are recent arrivals in Tokyo. Oscar's a small time drug dealer, and Linda works as a nightclub stripper. One night, Oscar is caught up in a police bust and shot. As he lies dying, his spirit, faithful to the promise he made his sister that he would never abandon her - refuses to abandon the world of the living. It wanders through the city, his visions growing evermore distorted, evermore nightmarish. Past, present and future merge in a hallucinatory maelstrom. (Wild Bunch Distribution)
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