Koji Wakamatsu reviews

Koji Wakamatsu

Director

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The Profile

Koji Wakamatsu (1936–2012) was a Japanese film director known for transforming pinku-eiga by blending eroticism with political and avant-garde themes across a prolific career of about a hundred films.

Credited with giving a soul to the pinku-eiga genre, Wakamatsu's work mixes surrealism, violence, political engagement and poetic critique.

DeBaser hosts an admiring, analytical review of Koji Wakamatsu highlighting his fusion of erotic cinema, surrealism and political critique. The available review praises his invention within pinku-eiga and singles out Su Su Per La Seconda Volta Vergine as a central work. Wakamatsu is presented as a prolific, ingenious director whose films mix violence, poetry and nihilism.

Notable Quotes

❝ "Escaping life by venturing into another dimension. Purifying oneself for the second time. Over there. In her secret garden, the virgin groans over the urban Eden. The Adam of her dreams watches her in her pure chastity. The girl who cries moans. Her desire to live moans. Su Su For the second time virgin".