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Grand Guignol, Japanese style, takes center stage in "Strange Circus," an out-there yarn that shocks, provokes but ultimately bores with its tasteless indulgences. Indie helmer Sion Sono, who raised eyebrows and some interesting ideas with his 2002 cult fave, "Suicide Club," this time goes for the jugular. Film will be most at home at midnight fest sidebars, or anywhere else where a trash aesthetic is embraced.After a "Cabaret"-like framing device that provides the film's title, pic starts out as the story of 12-year-old Mitsuko (Rie Kuwana), who's being sexually abused by her father, Gozo (Hiroshi Oguchi), and terrorized by her jealous mother, Sayuri (Masumi Miyazaki). Mitsuko is imprisoned in a cello case and forced to watch her parents' intimate liaisons through a peephole. The strange abuse causes Mitsuko to blur the distinction between her mother's pleasure and her own pain. When her mom dies after falling down the stairs, Mitsuko starts believing she is her mother. Worse, dad sees his wife's death as a green light to shamelessly ramp up his incestuous relations with his daughter...