There's no greater cinematic pleasure than watching a masterful filmmaker pull the rug out from the audience, but with Late Bloomer, director Go Shibata practically pulls out the entire floor... Late Bloomer is the only film that will have you entering the theater thinking of My Left Foot and leaving it thinking of Taxi Driver. One for the brave. --Travis Crawford, Philadelphia Film Festival***1/2 --Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-TimesWeird, wicked and wonderfully perverse . . . . --The New York Times