Antiporno

Anchiporuno

Trailer

Directed by Sion Sono

Japan, 2016

Drama

76
Japanese
English

Synopsis

Kyoko is a twenty-one-year-old artist who loves being at the center of attention. One day, feeling down, she lashes out against her assistant, sexually humiliating her in front of the rest of the staff. Suddenly someone yells “Cut!” and we realize that they are actually on a movie set.

Our take

Genre-bending Japanese provocateur Sono Sion (Love Exposure) flips his assignment on its head, transforming his softcore film into a candy-colored, fourth-wall-breaking exposé of the sex (and art) industry.

Antiporno Directed by Sion Sono

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Awards & Festivals

Mar del Plata International Film Festival

2016

!f Istanbul International Independent Film Festival

2017

Festival du Nouveau Cinéma

2016

Jeonju International Film Festival

2017

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Cast & Crew

Articles from the Notebook

The Antierotica of “Antiporno”

Japanese director Sion Sono turns the entire genre of softcore pornography on its head.

Critics reviews

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The few genuinely erotic moments are spiked by Sono who, in the throes of his characters’ passions, will cut to someone vomiting or to a flashback of “real life” sexual trauma. It is chaotic, disturbing, grotesque. It is, quite literally, the antiporno promised by the title. . . . Sono could have easily made a simple Roman Porno. But he did something more. He turned the entire genre on its head, letting its skirt fall to its knees so we can see all its dirty secrets.

Nathanael Hood

December 08, 2017

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The House Next Door

Cruelty, masochism, parental abuse (in the painter’s flashbacks) and schadenfreude of all kinds fuel this feverish op-art dream that turns on us at every corner.

Ela Bittencourt

December 12, 2016

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As Sono has faced controversy in the past for his violence against women, Anti-Porno feels particularly refreshing. It is at times self-indulgent but ultimately sides on the untapped sexual imagination of women. Closer in spirit to arthouse films like Valerie and her Week of Wonders than an outright exploitation film, the film portrays a sexual awakening under the pressures of a repressed society.

Justine Smith

October 14, 2016

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What are people saying?

beto's rating of the film Antiporno
beto

mind blowin experience. visually stunning!
November 28, 2017 03:02
- 5
- 0
El Biffo's rating of the film Antiporno
El Biffo

Clever, sexy, and really fun to look at with blasts of color, beautiful frames, costumes and sets conceived like a Japanese candy store of sexuality. I only wish that the ideas had been explored more and that the film had been much longer.
January 24, 2019 18:56
- 9
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Wee Hunk's rating of the film Antiporno
Wee Hunk

I'm not the intended audience. I keep wondering at what point people are going to realize that schoolgirl porn is fucked up. Will there be some moment when we look back at this and say, "That wasn't good"?
January 24, 2019 18:56
- 2
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msmichel's rating of the film Antiporno
msmichel

Sion Sono was commissioned to make this film for a production company trying to relaunch the genre known as 'roman porno'. The always playful Sono however gives us so much more. The misogynist opening suddenly gives way to the third wall breaking down only to be replaced by further layers of confusion, colour and mayhem. Visually stunning throughout but certainly not for all tastes.
January 24, 2019 18:56
- 4
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Jason's rating of the film Antiporno
Jason

W/ its eye-popping visual resplendency (it has a decadent pop-art look and odd staging that made me think of the late Seijun Suzuki of PISTOL OPERA etc.) and all-bets-are-off sense that it is not going to do anything you could possibly expect to expect it to, ANTIPORNO is not only a bemusedly subversive response to the invitation to re-think the Nikkatsu Roman Porno, it is also something other than a narrative film.
January 24, 2019 18:56
- 8
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anarresti's rating of the film Antiporno
anarresti

Some extremely rare objects have some distinct quality that makes me want to rate them even if I did not watch them to the end. In more than 1,200 this is probably the third. A horrendous, cruelly unnecessary use of images. The name is probably perfect. It's the most un-erotic thing I have seen, as if it was made to tease you in all the wrong places, into numbness and oblivion, until you hate yourself.
January 24, 2019 18:54
- 4
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C҉ă҉t҉ă҉l҉i҉n҉'s rating of the film Antiporno
C҉ă҉t҉ă҉l҉i҉n҉

Desperate to churn out movies and win awards, Sion Sono is slowly turning into another Takashi Miike. The illusion of relevance will always be there in his work, but he won't ever get quite there.
January 31, 2018 18:25
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EdieEmm's rating of the film Antiporno
EdieEmm

Antiporno = (Petra von Kant + Polly Magoo + some queer intellectual Japanese art collective), via Sion Sono.
February 10, 2018 16:18
- 2
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