Asuka Kurosawa, Shinya Tsukamoto, Yuji Kohtari

A man and woman fall into an erotic nightmare when they are stalked by a disturbed man.

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R, 1 hr. 17 min.

Directed by: Shinya Tsukamoto

Release Date: January 1, 2002

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  • November 9, 2009
    Mweh.. this is typicality a movie written and directed by a man (don't worry, I'm not a raging feminist), so annoying. It totally missed it's goal. It's about the woman, taking control of her sexuality, or that's the intention I think, but how she's coaxed into doing this is utte...( read more)rly ridiculous.
    That really is all I have to say about this movie.
  • September 30, 2009
    Shot through a tinted lens, this is a beautiful film visually but unfortunately its let down by a fairly creepy and non-sexy story line. Style over content but still worth watching, it just could have been a lot better considering Tsukamoto is one of the most exciting directors a...( read more)round!
  • April 14, 2009
    From Shinya Tsukamoto, director of the astoundingly incoherent Tetsuo, comes this equally insufferable story about a repressed married couple who find themselves under attack from a bizarre half-man/half-octopus type creature (and that's one of the more accessible aspects ...( read more)of the film!) Tsukamoto, who also wrote the screenplay, peppers A Snake of June with a variety of incomprehensible elements, as though he's daring viewers to actually sit through the entire thing. Making things worse is the atrocious, albeit gorgeous blue-and-white cinematography, which becomes tiresome and annoying within the first few minutes of the film. Though Tsukamoto has plenty of experience behind the camera, the filmmaker's inept directorial choices and apparent hatred of conventional structure (or, heck, any kind of structure) effectively transforms A Snake of June into an unforgettably excruciating experience.
  • September 14, 2008
    Another creepy and unsettling Japanese drama from director Tsukamoto (Jijii from Ichi The Killer) who's brought such wonderful family classics such as Tetsuo: The Iron Man. Shot in black and white then washed in blue, the film is absolutely soaked in water--constant rain, sinks...( read more) and showers, all running down into various drains. This is a wet, wet film; well, June is the rainy season in Japan, apparently. An extremely art-house film, with experimental-type camerawork and editing that makes it hard to follow at times...hell...most of the time.

    Still, the visual style sets the tone for a story that centers around various taboos in Japan. The tone of the film, a mixed bag of pink films and film noir, suggests that the whole thing is headed for a bitterly tragic doom.
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  • August 19, 2007
    I'm guessing if you sent David Lynch to Japan to remake Saw this is what you'd get. Stylish, puzzling and pretty fucked up. I hated the better part of the first hour and nearly cursed this movie's existence. That metal dick thing was... I'm sure explainable only in Japanese. The ...( read more)more I think about it the more I like it. A Snake of June is very erotic and reasonably sexy (the Japanese she-mullet thing was a little rough.) Not amazing but definitely worth checking out.
  • October 24, 2009
    if only it was in english sigh
  • September 1, 2009
    Intriguing tale of a married but sexually deprived woman terrorised by a man taking photos of her masturbating and forced to engage in sexual acts she wanted to do but restricted by herself in order to retrieve the negatives to save her honour.
  • June 10, 2009
    Suspenseful & sexy, but confusing. Someone please explain the snail symbolism to me.
  • April 28, 2009
    Everything that I have seen by Tsukamoto so far has been gold. A Snake of June was so refreshing to watch, I really enjoyed it. I loved the blue tint the film had. I loved the voyeuristic scene with all the business men sitting on the floor with the funnels over their faces, whic...( read more)h slowly revealed more and more as to what they were actually seeing. Funny how none of them bothered to look away.

    Personally, I think the title is very fitting. I read in a book that he got the title from the fact that it is a very dry season in Japan during the month of June. This, in turn, makes it rain a lot, which makes the environment come alive. This life thus stimulates people, and so on. They get horny. Deep shit. I liked the metaphor used for the photographer and his Doctor Octodick when he confronts the husband. The photographer seems to only be able to get off through the use of technology, specifically his camera. What better way to portray his metaphorical penis than by actually giving him one? At least it's not a drill.

    A Snake of June is a hyper-sexual film, so I wouldn't recommend this to people who would get uncomfortable seeing a girl walk around the city with a vibrator inside of her. However, if this type of perversity doesn't bother you then I think it's worth a watch. It becomes less impressive after multiple viewings, but I enjoy me some Tsukamoto.
  • March 7, 2009
    EVEN IF the film exploits a lot sex and thriller, it is very poetic in many parts. When I saw it, it was the first time I've ever heard about. At the beggining I thought it was one of those horror films that lately are remade by Hollywood but at the end I saw perfectly how hard i...( read more)s that to happen: the film is too exotic and interesting for that. The filmaker did everything in order to give us a deep, emotional experience. I was very happy to see this.
    En mi vida habìa escuchado sobre esta película, así que desde que empezó pensé que se trataba de otra de esas peliculas japonesas de terror bobas que terminan haciendo remake gringo. Me llevé una buena sorpresa, aunque sí se trata de una historia sexosa y violenta con una que otra escena inexplicable y jalada, también tiene una buena historia y escenas muy oníricas mientras que tiene otras en las que la realidad es retratada con elementos de pesadilla claustrofobica, tal como la pareja que està encerrada en el tanque con el agua cayendo.

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