Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
701 Mission St
415.978.2787
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Ecstasy of the Angels, Courtesy of Dissidenz Intl.
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Oct 8, 2009 – Oct 29, 2009
Daily (schedule)
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- Price
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$8 per screening
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"Underground films with a sexy touch," is how director Koji Wakamatsu once described — albeit with much understatement — his late '60s and early '70s output. Extreme in form (the French New Wave was an influence) as well as in content (rape and violent crime are common occurrences), Wakamatsu's films capture the heady, reckless mix of libidinal release and revolutionary rhetoric that defined the largely student-led, radical left movements of the period. Although released as soft-core pinku eiga, films such as Violated Angels (1967) and Go, Go Second Time Virgin (1969) also resonate deeply as responses to the political climate of late '60s Japan, something explored much more explicitly and seriously in Wakamatsu's latest film, the docu-drama United Red Army, which this essential retrospective closes with.
