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Kotoko

Kotoko

2011
Drama, Horror
1h 31m
The story of a single mother who suffers from double vision; caring for her baby is a nerve- wrecking task that eventually leads her to a nervous breakdown. She is suspected of being a child abuser when things get out of control and her baby is taken away.
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Kotoko

2011
Drama, Horror
1h 31m
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Rated 04 Jan 2013
3
36th
refusing to shy away from his lunatic protagonist's relentless sensory/bodily battering, tsukamoto gladly inhabits her hysterical psyche down to the most jagged fissures, blowing up the anxieties of womanhood (and, as the opening implies, a tsunami-devastated region) into one long, visceral shriek of helplessness. what could've been shrill, alienating j-horror or an exploitative pity party in less respectful hands proves surprisingly tender, ending on a note of heartfelt, if tentative, optimism.
Rated 25 Nov 2013
55
34th
While it was the point of the film, it was a lil too much. Cocco does a nice performance in it though.
Rated 19 Jan 2014
95
95th
The most alarming film I've seen since 'Secret Sunshine', and probably just as profound. Tsukamoto finds a few fresh buttons to push I didn't know I had. To say this deals simply with the horror of the body, or a fear of responsibility, or horror for the future, would be an injustice to the full experience. I felt the boundaries of film technique being pushed just so slightly outward, just as it expanded my emotional well-being. Masterful, radical stuff.
Rated 21 Dec 2014
78
85th
Simply, a nightmare of madness. I instantly cared for Kotoko, and the emotional impact is always strong, even in the more stretched out scenes. Here Tsukamoto's style it's more near to "dogma 95" danish directors like Vintemberg or 'Von' Trier than to his "eccentric" works like Tokyo Fist. All is about the drama and the actors performances, few distractions. But the Tsukamoto themes, like alienation from ourself and from society, are still there.
Rated 11 Mar 2020
60
62nd
Some scenes are poor, but it does develop some affective power and explores territory that cinema rarely acknowledges. Specifically, it seems to this viewer to be about the experience of having a borderline personality disorder, the way it produces suffering firstly for the person caught between violent tendencies and psychosis, and how this is intensified by motherhood and the resultant anxieties about the future in a dangerous world where external violence seems constantly threatening.
Rated 10 Jul 2020
63
60th
An almost cartoonish depiction of a delirious paranoid-schizophrenic character from underneath her skin, forcing the viewer through her often very bloody hallucinations. Tsukamoto is so reluctant to keep an artistic distance from his subject, that some of her moments of clarity are yet more awkwardly uncomfortable to watch than her imaginations. This won't scare you as much as it'll make your skin crawl.
Rated 18 May 2023
65
62nd
This was a weird and frenzied movie that I think only Shin'ya Tsukamoto could've made. Cocco does a good job of being a broken person that still manages to have depth and I found myself caring about her story. Shin'ya Tsukamoto is always great in his films as he always knows what he is looking for. The biggest downside for me is that the movie goes on a bit too long for its own good.

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