The Limit of Sleeping Beauty film review: soft-core porn meets Japanese art-house cinema in kaleidoscopic clubland fantasy

2/5 stars Japan has one of the world’s most prolific independent film scenes, one where soft-core pornography and eccentric auteurism regularly go hand in hand. The Limit of Sleeping Beauty falls squarely into this category, chronicling as it does the escapist fantasies of a struggling actress hoping to flee Tokyo’s clubland underworld. Since arriving in Tokyo 10 years earlier, Aki (Yuki Sakurai) has been making ends meet working as a magician’s assistant. She performs at the...

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