2015 Busan International Film Festival
MOVIE REVIEW
The Virgin Psychics (2016)
Sion Sono’s gonzo gangster-cannibal-hip-hop fantasia “Tokyo Tribe” had its tongue in its cheek and death on its mind; “The Virgin Psychics” puts mortality to one side and gives Eros its day, but without feeling the need to calm down. Originally a manga by Kiminori Wakasugi (and already brought to TV by Mr. Sono in 2013 with a bunch of the same actors as here), it’s a relentlessly ribald sci-fi burlesque about a group of young virgins with shared prenatal connections who all acquire lascivious superpowers at the same time. They then get caught up in a particularly carnal version of the end of the world on loan from some cheapo 1970s porn parody – which for all the resulting difficulties certainly looks like more fun than the Midwich Cuckoos ever got up to.