Quasi-Bodies and Kafka’s Castle in Sion Sono’s Crime Noir Guilty of Romance (2011)
Sion Sono’s Guilty of Romance (Koi no tsumi, 2011) was adapted from an actual crime in Tokyo’s love hotel: an educated woman (a prostitute at night) was found decapitated and her limbs were re-assembled with a sex-doll. Sono renders this through his cinematic narrative blurring the distinction betwe...
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| Language: | English |
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2014-09-01
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| Series: | Acta Universitatis Sapientiae: Film and Media Studies |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.2478/ausfm-2014-0032 |