Strange Circus
Year: 2005
Runtime: 108 mins
Language: Japanese
Director: Sion Sono
The line between imagination and truth blurs for erotic novelist Taeko, who is composing a grim tale about a family torn apart by incest, murder and abuse. Her assistant Yuji embarks on a quest to discover the real events that inspired the narrative, only to find that the truth may be unbearably dark.
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