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Visitor Q
JAPAN · 2001

Visitor Q

Takashi Miike
family dysfunction redemption through outsider intervention addiction and abuse transgressive sexuality moral corruption
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Synopsis

In a dysfunctional family where the mother is a heroin addict and prostitute, beaten by her son, and the father is an ex-TV reporter, sleeping with his daughter and filming his son being beaten up, ‘Q’, a complete stranger enters the bizarre family, changing their lives for the better, finding a balance in their disturbing natures.

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