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New Group review – schoolkids build human pyramids in bizarre Japanese horror-satire on conformity

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The GuardianNew Group review – schoolkids build human pyramids in bizarre Japanese horror-satire on conformity
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Two outsider students at a super-strict high school find they are definitely not with the programme in Yûta Shimotsu’s body-bending sci-fi scarer Here is an intermittently amusing Japanese social satire about conformity directed by Yûta Shimotsu; it has…

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