ABOUT KOJI WAKAMATSU

BIOGRAPHY Koji Wakamatsu (born 1 April 1936, in Wakuya, Miyagi, Japan) moved to Tokyo at the age of 17 and after a series of small jobs became a yakuza. Following a fight, he was sent to prison where he learned that power leads to repression and brutality. After his release, he wrote a book about his experience and found in filmmaking a way to expose the abuse of power. In 1959, he worked in television...

ECSTASY OF THE ANGELS by Koji Wakamatsu

Original title: Tenshi No Kokotsu Produced by Wakamatsu Production Japan – 1972 – 89 min. Cast: Ken Yoshizawa, Rie Yokoyama SYNOPSIS In the early 70s in Japan, a group of young radicals named after the days of the week tries to steal weapons from a U.S Army base. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday are killed. Slowly, the surviving group members realize they’ve been betrayed by their own organization,...

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...

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...

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...

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:...

VIOLATED ANGELS by Koji Wakamatsu

Original title: Okasareta Hakui Produced by Wakamatsu Production Japan – 1967 – 57 min. Cast: Juro Kara, Shoko Kido SYNOPSIS A young man breaks into a nurses’ rooming house and one-by-one kills off the nurses therein. The film is based on the mass murder spree of Richard Speck in 1966 and was selected at Cannes Film Festival in 1971 at Directors’ Fortnight. Version available: Japanese Available...

VIOLENT VIRGIN by Koji Wakamatsu

Original title: Shojo geba geba Produced by Wakamatsu Production Japan – 1969 – 66 min. Cast: Eri Ashikawa, Toshiyuki Tanigawa SYNOPSIS A group of Yakuzas and their female companions brings a couple into a barren landscape to punish their turn-out-to-be boss’s unfaithful mistress and her chinpira (low-level Yakuza) lover. Version available: Japanese Available subtitles: French, English Rights...

VIOLENCE WITHOUT A CAUSE by Koji Wakamatsu

Original title: Gendai sei hanzai zekkyo hen: riyu naki boko Produced by Wakamatsu Production Japan – 1969 – 72 min. Cast: Yuko Ejima, Toshitaka Sakabe SYNOPSIS Three students decide to rebel against society by breaking all rules and satisfying their sexual desires withtou any limit. Since society won’t listen to their malaise, they will show their own authority by raping young women… Version...