Tag (2015)
Female highs school students, including Mitsuko, Keiko and Izumi, become the targets of ghosts with various appearances including a groom with a pig's face and female teacher with a machine gun. (KG)
Cast and Information
Directed By: Sion Sono
Written By: Sion Sono, Yûsuke Yamada
Starring: Erina Mano, Reina Triendl, Yuki Sakurai, Ami Tomite, Mariko Shinoda, Aki Hiraoka
Genres: Drama, Suspense/Thriller, Horror
AKA: Riaru onigokko
Country: Japan
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Tag belongs to 11 collections
1. Capsules, guest reviews, list candidates... (366weirdmovies) (collaborative: moderated by sesito71 - 4 stars)
2. Japanese director (collaborative: moderated by iconogassed - 3 stars)
3. Djross film as art (public: djross - 3 stars)
4. DtC Doubling the Canon 2022 Nominees (collaborative: moderated by lineuphere - 2 stars)
5. Djross horror movie of the year (public: djross - 2 stars)
6. Japanese desire (collaborative: moderated by djross - 1 star)
7. Djross 2015 top ten (public: djross - 1 star)
8. Metacosmic and sexorganological cinema (public: djross - 1 star)
9. Ridiculously High Body Counts (collaborative)
10. Topic: woman in jeopardy (collaborative: moderated by tipar)
11. Djross Japanese feature films I've seen (public: djross)
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bof | 71 62nd |
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I'm not saying ALL movies should start with a bus full of Japanese schoolgirls pillowfighting and then getting gorily bisected, only to turn into a surreal existentialist drama that slices... sorry, picks apart the very tropes that makes that sound intriguing. I'm not saying that at all. I'm just saying, the world would be better if they did.
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Mentaculus | 77 66th |
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I expect beautiful, unhinged, violent bedlam whenever I go into a Sion Sono film. But a pox on me for not thinking it would also be prescient and contemplative. Let's start a story about killer wind that slices Japanese schoolgirls in half and has a thing for upskirts and end it as a testimony on female liberation from toxic masculinity. Sono is afraid of nothing and life is better because of it.
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Alex Watkins | 4 70th |
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A fever dream in which a woman seeks to escape the nightmare of her existence: being controlled by men for violent, subservient ends. Shades of eXistenZ or Vanilla Sky, but with the over-the-top bent that only a Sion Sono film could provide. I'm starting to think this guy is the most brilliant director working today.
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AFlickering | 4 58th |
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sion sono's SUCKER PUNCH (by way of THE HAPPENING, PAPRIKA, EXISTENZ etc). i can't shake the feeling that he'd be better off thinking his movies through more instead of releasing 6 a fucking year; there's an all time favourite movie hiding in here, and he can't quite get there. still, he's a more vivid, subversive, devastating animé director than just about anyone who makes actual animés, and his lack of stability is part of what makes him vital.
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djross | 72 80th |
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No cinema is more alive than that of Sion Sono, oneirically concerned here with a technological prison world in which individuals, and in particular girls and women, cannot escape a matrix of degraded fiction (including, perhaps, that of AMERICAN BEAUTY), but also with a cosmos that, more than real, is surreal in the precise sense that it contains possibilities that are more than just calculable probabilities but the radically improbable, this being the very condition of possibility of a future.
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Anomaly | 73 55th |
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Unafraid to be weird, and not afraid to both confuse and confront its captive audience. It presents a strong subtext, but loses itself a bit with the pacing. Certainly a unique experience, at the least. Also all the drone footage is breathtaking.
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Barthalen | 73 64th |
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Now THAT'S how you start a movie! Tag is not afraid to have crazy shit happen unexpectedly, making for an enjoyably hard to predict ride. However, on a scene-by-scene basis I tended to ask myself "Is this kinda dumb? Or kinda cool? Both?". Once the final reveals arrived I was fully on board though. The post-rock-ish soundtrack and incredibly fakey looking crocodile get two sliced-off thumbs up.
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chemical404 | 65 71st |
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Cute schoolgirls, upskirt shots, cute schoolgirls cut in half, pseudo-philosophical musings, more cute schoolgirls cut in half... Just another Sion Sono movie. Except, there is no such thing as 'just another Sion Sono movie', just varying degrees of WTF-did-I-just-watch. This film is very fitting to watch stoned/tripping. Also, it's much better that a few latest Sono films I watched.
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| 2 | senolatnap | 30 3rd |
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Boring avant-pop splatter absurdism. Machine guns, schoolgirl skirts, cheap CG gore that's "cheap on purpose." There's nothing to engage with, just one damned thing after another, but of course we eventually learn that that's "on purpose" too because it's all like a media critique, maaaan.
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Suture Self | 8 81st |
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Sometimes Tag wants to have its cake and eat it too. For example, it purports to be a zany critique of the patriarchy, but it has no problem providing viewers with an endless slideshow of up-skirt schoolgirl panty shots. I'm of the opinion that this is a pro-perversion move, so those elements don't really strike me as sexist, but I could understand those who disagree. That being said, this movie's cast and screen time is dominated by women the whole way through, which is refreshing and unique.
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| 1 | FilmNoob | 4 22nd |
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Not good, but the beginning is amazing.
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| Average Percentile 44.79% from 178 Ratings |  |