Soft-Core Auteur Turns Attention to Radicals
di Dennis Lim The New York Times
AT its peak in the 1960s the brand of kinky soft-core erotica known as pinku eiga, or pink film, accounted for half of all movie production in Japan. Most pink-film directors were anonymous journeymen, but the industry nurtured its share of eccentric talents. Among the most talented and eccentric was Koji Wakamatsu, a gonzo auteur with a knack for eyebrow-raising titles (“Go, Go Second Time Virgin,” “Violated Women in White”) whose most interesting films owe as much to Karl Marx as to the Marquis de Sade. [...]
di Dennis Lim, articolo completo (6560 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 22 giugno 2008