Sion Sono	...	(Director)
Aaron Hendry, Reza Sixo Safai	...	(Writer)
Nicolas Cage	...	Hero
Sofia Boutella	...	Bernice
Nick Cassavetes	...	Psycho
Bill Moseley	...	Governor
Tak Sakaguchi	...	Yasujiro
Young Dais	...	Ratman
Charles Glover	...	Enoch
Cici Zhou	...	Chimera
Louis Kurihara	...	Curi
Tetsu Watanabe	...	Nabe
Takato Yonemoto	...	Sheriff Takato
Shin Shimizu	...	Deputy Shin
Matthew Chozick	...	Matthew
Constant Voisin	...	Constant
Yuzuka Nakaya	...	Susie
Lorena Kotô	...	Stella
Canon Nawata	...	Nancy
Hiroshi Kaname	...	Gumball Boy
Joseph Trapanese	...	Composer
Sôhei Tanikawa	...	Cinematographer

Comments:

So ... I was probably wrong when I wrote in my Red Post review that Sono wrote Red Post after Prisoners but released it prior to this to give us a clue how to watch it

But even if that is untrue or impossible, it's still 100% accurate. It's also ironically goofy for him to cast all the "stars" of Red Post as extras in Prisoners given what Red Post is all about

That's the genius of Sono. He responds to things before they have happened

It's also accurate to say that if you watch this you should watch the extras more than the principles

This is not a Sono Joint. He didn't write it or edit it. It's a Netflix movie

All the other stuff Sono does is here. The colors, the framing, the set pieces, the world building. There a many lovely moments, and if you watch Red Post first you can have a blast spotting all the actors from it in this

I'm sticking with my take that Red Post is the last thing Sono has given us and hope I'm wrong

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If Nic Cage thinks this "might be the wildest film he's ever made" he never saw Mandy.

The Good: Sono has reached the level of Christopher Guest in that every single player in his cast, down to the barely visible extras, knows they are in a Sono film and act accordingly. So the film is full of only-in-a-Sono-film moments (but you may need to be a Sono Cultist to appreciate them all).
The colors, the framing, the lighting. All Sono, all there.

The Bad: Sono didn't script it. Nothing happens. The story is lame. The violence--if you can even call it that--is hugely stupid and boring.

The best moment in the film is an outtake. After Yasujiro kicks Cage in the ball (he has only one left), Cage breaks character and says "fuuuuck", like it really hurt; camera pulls back and Yasujiro puts his hands on his knees to catch his breath. I don't know what was going on there but it was funny and odd.

I believe Sono makes a cameo as the man who says "I'm not vermin. I'm a man. Man right here"

For me this is better than the self scripted error films Sono makes because I didn't hate this the way I hate his error films. It's not completely terrible but it's certainly forgettable


Summary: The film centers on notorious criminal Hero who is sent to rescue an abducted girl who has disappeared into a dark supernatural universe. They must break the evil curse that binds them and escape the mysterious revenants that rule the Ghostland, an East-meets-West vortex of beauty and violence.