{
  "id": 7152685,
  "title": "‘Diary of a Mad Old Man’ Review: Wayne Wang and Fan Bingbing Unintentionally Find the Boredom in Sex and Death",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/13/diary-of-a-mad-old-man-review-wayne-wang-and-fan-bingbing",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-09-13T18:57:04.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Variety",
    "slug": "variety",
    "url": "https://variety.com/2026/film/reviews/diary-of-a-mad-old-man-review-1236860647/"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Given its premise — a post-stroke retiree derives sexual pleasure from his daughter-in-law — the perverse qualities of Jun’ichirō Tanizaki’s classic “Diary of a Mad Old Man” are plentiful. But by the standards of contemporary mores, the 1961 novel isn’t particularly explicit; in his first feature since 2019, Wayne Wang initially takes a different approach, […]",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}