Sion Sono's 'Guilty of Romance'

[logboy]

it's not a Cannes cut, it's the cut for Japanese release. the argument against the "preferred" shorter cut looks odd when the same version didn't get a release everywhere, and its main market got a longer cut.

the bbfc certified the longer cut for eureka in the uk, and they said they'd release it - but didn't. it's essentially an attempt to take one film and allowing it two independent lives, with release timing & maximising profits hard to do with regions & zones.

for me, the apparent western interest in sono post 'love exposure' is so automated that its a major reason why I despair for western interest in j films... I'd have championed sono at one time, frequently did, but he doesn't deserve to be so obvious as it all now feels lazy and cliched to me. everyone makes their own choices, but in the west, the knowledge of what Japan is making is so narrow it's say to see how it's possible to argue so many pile feeling they've found the best when they know so little about the rest.