A Snake of June (Rokugatsu no hebi)

I wish all movies were this horny, blue and only 76 minutes long.

Justin LaLiberty

An surreal thrillfest exploring sexuality and erotic corruption, filtered through an incredibly wet and humid monochrome blue and evoking Lynch/Cronenberg mind bending of the highest order. Absolutely stunning and very much my kind of perfect Tsukamoto jam—blue.

Ian West

I still hold the hypothesis that Tsukamoto is following a thematic trend of animalistic dehumanization, this time exploring a perspective of self-destructive sexuality disrupting the ordinary and plain lives of a married couple. Following his stylized, black-and-white…

Edgar Cochran ✝️🍋

I hate to say it, but.... nobody told me this was going to be the horny version of Saw? And maybe it's just me, but I think there's something kinda sweet about a stalker trying to give their obsession a heads up that they might have cancer?

Liz

Psychosexual noirs don't get much better than this. A riveting journey of sexual repression and coercion, displayed in a cold, voyeuristic manner that managed to pull me in from the get-go. I'm definitely not the first to make this comparison, but I can't help but draw many…

Sethsreviews

Rinko’s external world is perpetually wet. Constant rainfall that roars in the background of every moment. Umbrellas are a permanent fixture, an extension of herself that prevents her from feeling the water run down her skin. She flings herself in and out of the shower with…

claira curtis

Metamorphic reciprocity of desire, compulsion and sensation. An azure metropolis soaked by a primal obsession and carnal repression. Is there even a third person? Is Tsukamoto’s character a real human or simply a manifestation of both of our main characters’ most…

Jerry

Shinya Tsukamoto is a bigger pervert than Paul Verhoeven 😱

Nicole Van Sant

Male-gazing sexploitation wrapped in deceivingly impressive cinematography. It tries too hard to be weird but never amounts to anything substantial in the end. Had high hopes for this but this 76-minute experience was unfortunately an excruciating bore. A total discard…

nick