KÔJI WAKAMATSU
Porn, politics and provocation
Reviews:
- Go, Go Second Time Virgin: Brutalised youths try to love each other on desolate Tokyo rooftop - and fail
- Running in Madness, Dying in Love: A provocative road movie about romantic and political disillusionment
- Violent Virgin: A nihilistic and surreal exploration of man's beastly, brutal tendencies
- Secret Acts behind Walls
- Pool without Water
- Caterpillar: A grotesque protest against Japan's nationalism during WWII
- 11.25. The Day He Chose His Own Fate: Wakamatsu on Mishima
Articles:
- Kôji Wakamatsu: From yakuza to pornographer: An introduction to the post-war erotic film industry in which Wakamatsu worked
Interviews:
- Wakamatsu on his Mishima film 11.25. The Day He Chose His Own Fate
Comic Strip Review:
Reel Sounds:
- A Far from Silent Battlefront: Ecstasy of the Angels
Print:
- Orgasmic Revolutions: Interview with Wakamatsu on United Red Army in The End: An Electric Sheep Anthology (Strange Attractor Press)
Podcast:
- I'm Ready For My Close-Up: Kôji Wakamatsu – Sexual politics and political sex: Behind the Pink Curtain author Jasper Sharp talks about the late Kôji Wakamatsu, one of the most radical and provocative filmmakers of post-war Japan, and explains the context of the soft porn industry and the period of social and political unrest in which his work developed.
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