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New Group review – schoolkids build human pyramids in bizarre Japanese horror-satire on conformity
Tuesday, November 3, 2026 · 7:00 AM
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 flashes of brilliance but lacks the kind of engaging characters that could have taken it to the next level. Ai (Anna Yamada) is an unpopular pupil who has always trie
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