Sasayaki
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  • Summary: A beautifully crafted and darkly comic exploration of innocence and perversity. Shiota gets a great deal of mileage out of the extreme contrast between the film's placid surface - that of a lightweight teen romance - and it's underlying themes of sexual degradation and control. (Viz Films)

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 9
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 9
  3. Negative: 0 out of 9
  1. New Times (L.A.)
    Reviewed by: Andy Klein
    80
    Except for a few slow patches, the movie is compulsively watchable: You keep waiting to see just how sick things are going to get.
  2. Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Reviewed by: Sean Axmaker
    75
    A disturbing, and disturbingly funny, twist on adolescent love, and Shiota captures the emotional avalanche with understanding.
  3. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Ken Fox
    70
    Best of all is Tsugumi's wild performance.
  4. Christian Science Monitor
    Reviewed by: David Sterritt
    50
    Good acting and understated filmmaking turn off-putting material into a mildly engrossing drama, if not a particularly compelling one.

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