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Himizu

Not familiar with the source material, but Sono succeeds here despite leaving behind his usual ero-guro tendencies and instead grafts the real-world trauma of contemporary events onto the malaise and incomprehensibility of succeeding at life. Maybe the appeal to be a "good citizen" and pay for one's crimes comes off to some as didactic, or a little naive, but, in the context of his other films, it seems