While the Women Are Sleeping (Wayne Wang, Takeshi Kitano)

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While the Women Are Sleeping (Wayne Wang, Takeshi Kitano)

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Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gsf5F22mBQ

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Article: Takeshi Kitano Stars as Pervert in Wayne Wang’s ‘While The Women Are Sleeping’
http://variety.com/2015/film/asia/takes ... 201538779/

Opens February 27, 2016 in Japan.
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This looks so awesome. Put the trailer on Facebook and messaged it to a few friends. Got ZERO response
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I missed this in cinemas, but the Japanese BD and DVD are coming out 2016/08/03 and will contain English subs.

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I forgot we had this thread...

So I caught this on Netflix a few months ago and it was a mess, sad to say. Mini-review below

While the Women Are Sleeping (女が眠る時) (Japan, 2016) [Netflix] - 2/5
Rarely do you see a potent thriller lose its way as badly as this Wayne Wang Japan entry does. A novelist and his wife run into a creepy old man (Takeshi Kitano) vacationing with a sexy teenage girl (Shioli Kutsuna) in a resort. What is going on? It turns out even the filmmakers did not know. After building a solid mystery for the first hour, the film throws in every imaginable explanation and asks the viewer to pick up his preferred one. Perhaps a re-watch would bring more sense to the film, but the trick is so cheap it's hard to imagine anyone wanting to do that.
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