Sion Sono is a busy, busy guy. Why Don’t You Play
in Hell made the festival rounds last year, Tokyo
Tribe premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival,
and he apparently has six, yes, six, movies due out this
year. This includes Shinjuku Swan, which just dropped this
new trailer that is totally in the wheelhouse of the maverick Japanese
director.
This video may only be 30-seconds-long, but it’s a wild
ride. Based on a manga by Ken Wakui, the film follows an unemployed man who
falls into a job recruiting women for the sex trade in Tokyo’s red light
district. Things, of course, get tense and violent, and as you can see, weirdly
upbeat—you don’t necessarily expect to see two young lovers holding hands and
skipping in a movie about the criminal underworld and sex workers. But then
again, this is a Sion Sono movie, so you should be ready for this sort of
thing.
Sony Pictures picked up the rights, so that means we should
get to see this slice of mayhem from the cult auteur. They’ll drop it in 300
theaters on May 30, the same day that it opens in Japan. But for now, bask in
this short blast of mayhem.
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