Japan,
2018, 119 min
Directed by:
Kazuya ShiraishiScreenplay:
Jun'ichi InoueCinematography:
Tomohiko TsujiComposer:
Keiichi SokabeCast:
Mugi Kadowaki, 井浦新, 山本浩司, Nao Okabe, Shima Ōnishi, Soran Tamoto, 毎熊克哉, 藤原季節, 上川周作, Shinnosuke Mitsushima, Kiyohiko Shibukawa, Takuma Otoo, Sousuke Takaoka (more)Plots(1)
The 1960s-70s marked the Golden Age of Wakamatsu Productions, founded by revolutionary auteur Wakamatsu Koji and staffed (for nearly free) with radical young artists like avant-garde filmmaker Adachi Masao, cinematographer Ito Hideo and scriptwriter Arai Haruhiko. Shiraishi Kazuya also cut his teeth making low-budget exploitation pictures at the company, and has directed this rambunctious, fact-based account of one young dreamer, Yoshizumi Megumi, who joins Wakamatsu in 1969 to make pinku eiga (softcore porn). As she struggles to fit into the testosterone-heavy “family,” and to find her own voice, Megumi’s life is equal parts heroic and tragic. (New York Asian Film Festival)
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