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Eros + Massacre (1969) One of the GREAT Japanese films
Eros + Massacre (1969) One of the GREAT Japanese films
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original Japanese title: EROSU PURASU GYAKUSATSU [EROS + MASSACRE]

director: Kijū Yoshida (Yoshishige Yoshida)
starring: Mariko Okada · Toshiyuki Hosokawa · Yūko Kusunoki · Kazuko Inano · Etsushi Takahashi

    

This film is often honored Yoshishige Yoshida's masterpiece and it considered the peak of Japanese New Wave Cinema. The narrative deals with themes of anarchism, sexuality, feminism, and existentialism. The massive project, running 3 1/2 hrs, may be the most ambitious and experimental of all Japanese work.

It tells two stories at once, one biographical and one fictional, set decades apart. Here is the true account of anarchist Sakae Osugi - circa the 1920s - centered around his theories, ideas and torrid relationships with three women: his wife, his first lover [who tries to kill him], and his second lover Noe Ito. A second [fictional] story intercuts with the first - set in the counterculture '60s - following a female college student named Eiko who is doing research on Osugi's life. Similar to Osugi, she also has three lovers: Wada, a fellow student helping with research, a suicidal film director and a policeman who suspects that she's connected to a prostitution ring.

    

    

A Japanese film with optional ON/OFF English subtitles; widescreen format, (216 minutes),
DVD encoded for REGION 1 NTSC FORMAT; extras include theatrical trailer

  

Violence/Coming of Age/Sexual Situations/Drugs/Nudity
Recommended For Mature Audiences

 
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