Sing a Song of Sex (1967) aka Nihon shunka-kô
Four high school students preparing for their university entrance exam fantasize about a classmate, and meet up with their … Continue reading
Four high school students preparing for their university entrance exam fantasize about a classmate, and meet up with their … Continue reading
Made after Takechi had won an obscenity trial over Black Snow (1965), the film has been called “Takechi’s personal … Continue reading
A mysterious tattoo artist puts his masterpiece, a human-faced spider, on a kidnapped woman’s back. She and … Continue reading
Takechi’s third film, The Dream of the Red Chamber or Crimson Dream (Kokeimu, 1964), was released less than two months after Daydream. The … Continue reading
In the seminal tragedy of a love story, which is shot in a documentary style, a young and inexperienced man falls for a nude and desirable … Continue reading
A bunch of young hipsters kidnaps a loving couple and keeps them trapped in a barren landscape. To the sounds of … Continue reading
LEAD TOMBSTONE tracks the progress of a young sociopathic rake who had, immediately post-WW2, rescued his country farmer mother from rape by stabbing the offending … Continue reading
A teenage girl walking along the beach is attacked by a group of men and brutally gang-raped. She later finds out that not … Continue reading
The first in the “Gendai Sei Hanzaku” series, written and starred by film director Kenji Fukuma, who was a metropolitan university … Continue reading