Strange Circus

(2005)

★ 7.2 IMDb · 214 votes

Genres: Mystery, Horror, Drama

Year: 2005

Runtime: 108 мин

Country: Japan

Director: 園子温

Cast: 桑名里瑛, 宮崎萬純, 岩井堂聖子, いしだ壱成, 不二子, Madamu Rejînu, 田口トモロヲ, 大口広司, 石川ゆうや, マメ山田

Plot

The erotic novelist Taeko is writing a morbid story of a family destroyed by incest, murder and abuse. Her assistant, Yuji, sets on a mission to uncover the reality of this story, but the reality might be too much to bear.

In Tokyo, the twelve year-old girl Mitsuko accidentally sees her parents having sex in their bedroom and her dysfunctional and pervert father Ozawa Gozo, who is the principal of her school, forces her to see her mother Sayuri having intercourse with him hidden inside a cello case. Then Osawa rapes Mitsuko and forces her mother to see the incestuous intercourse with their daughter. Osawa lives with Mitsuko and Sayuri and has sex with them, and Sayuri is jealous of her own daughter. The dysfunctional family is affected first by a murder and then by an attempt of suicide. But the bizarre story is actually a novel written by the disabled writer Taeko that uses a wheelchair to move. When her publisher visits her with his new hire Yuji, he gets close to her and helps Taeko to find the truth about her past. But in the end, which one is the dream?