Kôji Wakamatsu

A communist goes on the run with his brother’s wife, after some misfortune.Read More »

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A young lazy guy that spends his days smoking and making love to his two girlfriends is spyed on by two undercover policemen who occupy a neighbourhood appartment. They suspect him of commiting riots against police during radical student demonstrations. But the guy’s easy living doesn’t let them suspect anything. One day one of his friends visists him and he has an argument…Read More »

Sacred Mother Kannon tells the story of a nun who believes herself to be the reincarnation of the legendary Happyaku Bikuni (also known as Yao Bikuni). Happyaku Bikuni supposedly became immortal as the result of eating mermaid’s flesh, and lived for eight hundred years before finally disappearing into a cave in Wakasa. Now the nun only seeks death from her various lovers, though she can never seem to achieve it.Read More »

Another rare Wakamatsu for y’all…..this time from his late 70s shintoho roughies/torture era. A sort of sequel to Torture Chronicles: 100 Years of Torture Inquisition, and much along the same lines as that and Female Rape and Torture as far as plot and production values goes.

Not a great film , but worth a watch for waka completists and ero-guro fans.Read More »

A bus full of cult members gets stuck in snow. The cult has to stay in a mountain hotel. Strange things start to happen… This film was only released on VHS in Japan.
The music was composed by J. A. Seazer. And the screenplay was done by Izuru Deguchi and Ei Takatori (1952-2018). And some of the members from Gessyokukageki (月蝕歌劇団) founded by Ei Takatori also performed in this film.Read More »

A very rare ATG distributed Wakamatsu, starring Ken Yoshizawa and Rie Yokoyama as two pieces of a destructive love-triangle. Has all the usual Wakamatsu themes of politics, suicide and twisted love, as well as stylish Hideo Ito cinematography and great use of the more or less single set (a beach with an abandoned boat on it).Read More »

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It’s supposed to be a political critique of the japanese patriarchal family structure. The father wearing his military uniform is dominating his family sexually and violently. And while his daughter keeps saying that everything is normal, nothing is normal in this family.Read More »

Quote: Part of Wakamatsu’s ongoing fascination with sexual predators. It’s an incel film avant la lettre, executed in true Wakamatsu style. Certainly not his most prominent or polished work, though fans of Wakamatsu won’t be disappointed. Others should probably seek out his more famed work first. The film follows a frustrated young man. He yearns to be in the company of a woman, but seems unable to make any kind of meaningful connection with them. When a friend of his offers to share his girlfriend, he accepts reluctantly, but his first sexual experience awakens dark feelings that will drive him to commit violent crimes. Wakamatsu offers another glimpse into the mind of a very troubled soul. It’s certainly not a pleasant film, let alone a titillating one, so if that’s what you’re after you can better skip this one altogether. If on the other hand you like a stylized and frank descent into the rotten mind of a violent pervert, Wakamatsu has you covered.Read More »

Wakamatsu’s rare mainstream action film shot in Australia. There’s still plenty of sex and radical politics, along with a lot of explosions.Read More »