THE GOOD OLD NAUGHTY DAYS [DECONSTRUCTED] by Cécile Babiole and Renaissance Man

with the collaboration of Michel Reilhac Original title: Polissons et Galipettes [deconstructed] Produced by Blaq Out and Mélange France – 2009 – 66 min. SYNOPSIS In the beginning: a fresh and impertinent composition of twelve licentious short films from early last century. Back then, these oddities in the heritage of cinema were screened in the waiting rooms of brothels. Restored by...

GO GO SECOND TIME VIRGIN by Koji Wakamatsu

Original title: Yuke yuke nidome no shojo Produced by Wakamatsu Production Japan – 1969 – 65 min. Cast: Michio Akiyama, Mimi Kozakura SYNOPSIS The story of two damned and abused teenagers who meet and fall in mutant love on a desolate Tokyo rooftop. Their only hope is to cement their love with an escape into oblivion… Version available: Japanese Available subtitles: French, English Rights...

NAKED BULLET by Koji Wakamatsu

Original title: Otoko goroshi onna goroshi: hadaka no zyudan Produced by Wakamatsu Production Japan – 1969 – 72 min. Cast: Yuichi Minato, Ken Yoshizawa SYNOPSIS Three gangsters rob the loot of a trade between two gangs. They also take a hostage with them -a woman, who is part of one of the two gangs- and take refuge in an apartment where they choose to hide for some time. But one of the three gangsters...

RUNNING IN MADNESS, DYING IN LOVE by Koji Wakamatsu

Original title: Kyoso joshi-ko Produced by Wakamatsu Production Japan – 1969 – 72 min. Cast: Ken Yoshizawa, Yoko Muto, Rokko Toura SYNOPSIS While clashes between demonstrators and police are raging in the streets of Tokyo, a young man takes refuge at his policeman brother’s house. The two brothers will soon come to blows, but the intervention of the policeman’s wife will prove decisive, as...

SEASON OF TERROR by Koji Wakamatsu

Original title: Gendai kosyokuden: teroru no kisetsu Produced by Wakamatsu Production Japan – 1969 – 78 min. Cast: Yuko Ejima, Tomomi Sahara, Ken Yoshizawa SYNOPSIS Two police put a student militant under surveillance, but nothing seems to be happening except a lot of sex with his two girlfriends. They give up, too early it appears, as the student begins a revolutionary act far more extreme than...

SECRETS BEHIND THE WALL by Koji Wakamatsu

Original title: Kabe no naka no himegoto Produced by Wakamatsu Production Japan – 1965 – 75 min. Cast: Hiroko Fujino, Kazuko Kano SYNOPSIS Japan, 1960s. In a housing complex, a college prep student is spying on his neighbor, a former peace activist, who now leads an ordinary life as a housewife, having a secret affair with an ex-lover. The voyeurism of the isolated and gloomy young man...

SEX JACK by Koji Wakamatsu

Original title: Seizoku Produced by Wakamatsu Production Japan – 1970 – 70 min. Cast: Michio Akiyama, Moschu Sasahara, Moppu Sudo, Mitsu Yamakawa Cannes Film Festival Directors’ Fortnight 1971 SYNOPSIS Set in the near future, a small gang of revolutionary students are hidden away by a small-time thief. While they are hiding, all but the thief take turns having sex with an unhappy (and perhaps...

SHINJUKU MAD by Koji Wakamatsu

Original title: Shinjuku maddo Produced by Wakamatsu Production Japan – 1970 – 66 min. Cast: Yuko Ejima, Toshiyuki Tanigawa SYNOPSIS A father tracks down the murderers of his son to find out the reasons of his brutal killing and to seek revenge. Running around in the sleazy alleyways of Tokyo, he discovers that the mysterious gang leader, Shinjuku Mad, is responsible for his son’s death which...

THE EMBRYO HUNTS IN SECRET by Koji Wakamatsu

Original title: Taiji Ga Mitsuryosuru Toki Produced by Wakamatsu Production Japan – 1966 – 72 min. Cast: Hatsuo Yamatani, Miharu Shima SYNOPSIS A store manager gets a naive, female co-worker to come back to his apartment for a night of sex, but when she tries to leave the next day, he holds her prisoner and physically and psychologically tortures her. Version available: Japanese Available subtitles:...

THE WOMAN WHO WANTED TO DIE by Koji Wakamatsu

Original title: Segura magura: shinitai onna Produced by Wakamatsu Production Japan – 1970 – 71 min. Cast: Eriko Shima, Hiroshi Yajima SYNOPSIS While Mishima has just committed suicide in public, two couples accidentally meet in an inn in the countryside: the man and the woman, now with different companions, had known each other years ago… Version available: Japanese Available subtitles:...