WARNING: Brief nudity and (out-of-focus) scenes of childbirth
Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974 ★ 極私的エロス 恋歌1974
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Title: Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974
Original title: Gokushiteki erosu: Renka 1974
Year: 1974
Genre: Documentary
Director: HARA Kazuo [原一男]
Country: Japan
Language: Japanese
Running time: 1 hour, 36 minutes
Subtitles: English (.sub/.idx)
Cast:
Kazuo Hara ... Himself
Miyuki Takeda ... Herself / former lover of Hara
Sachiko Kobayashi ... Herself
External Links - For Reference Only
IMDb
"Filming at the Margins: The Documentaries of Hara Kazuo" Iris: A Journal of Theory on Image and Sound no. 16 (Spring 1993), with Kenneth Ruoff, 115-126.
Synopsis
(Kazuo) Hara's second film, and without doubt his most outrageous, personal and masochistic work. Shot over several years, mostly in handheld black-and-white and often with out-of-synch sound, this raw confessional has Hara following his ex-wife, 26-year-old radical feminist Miyuki Takeda. The two lived together for three years and share a child, as this documentary captures their post-break-up relationship and her new life without him. This was a brutal dose of reality for Japanese viewers, as it matter-of-factly tackles heartache, sex, insecurities, gender politics, and even on-camera childbirth. This is an extraordinarily intimate portrayal of the ideology, philosophy, and lives of radicals in the Vietnam era, revolving around the postwar relationship of Japan, Okinawa, and the United States. - Anthology Film Archives
Noted Japanese documentary director Kazuo Hara makes an obsessive, compelling film about Takeda Miyuki, his former lover. Drawn by her letters, he goes to Okinawa and documents this remarkably strong-willed woman as she has a relationship with an African-American soldier, bears their interracial child alone, and discusses the director's shortcomings with Hara's producer and lover, Sachiko Kobayashi. This film is a landmark in the development of Japanese documentaries, as it began a shift in perspective from collective films about social issues, as seen in Shinsuke Ogawa's early works, to intensely personal works about individuals. - Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide
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Video Format: AVI - XviD
Video Bitrate: 922 Kbps
Frame Rate: 23.976 fps
Aspect Ratio: 4:3
Resolution: 544 x 416
Audio Format: MP3 VBR
Audio Bitrate: 81.9 Kbps
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Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974 ★ 極私的エロス 恋歌1974
Title: Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974
Original title: Gokushiteki erosu: Renka 1974
Year: 1974
Genre: Documentary
Director: HARA Kazuo [原一男]
Country: Japan
Language: Japanese
Running time: 1 hour, 36 minutes
Subtitles: English (.sub/.idx)
Cast:
Kazuo Hara ... Himself
Miyuki Takeda ... Herself / former lover of Hara
Sachiko Kobayashi ... Herself
External Links - For Reference Only
IMDb
"Filming at the Margins: The Documentaries of Hara Kazuo" Iris: A Journal of Theory on Image and Sound no. 16 (Spring 1993), with Kenneth Ruoff, 115-126.
Synopsis
(Kazuo) Hara's second film, and without doubt his most outrageous, personal and masochistic work. Shot over several years, mostly in handheld black-and-white and often with out-of-synch sound, this raw confessional has Hara following his ex-wife, 26-year-old radical feminist Miyuki Takeda. The two lived together for three years and share a child, as this documentary captures their post-break-up relationship and her new life without him. This was a brutal dose of reality for Japanese viewers, as it matter-of-factly tackles heartache, sex, insecurities, gender politics, and even on-camera childbirth. This is an extraordinarily intimate portrayal of the ideology, philosophy, and lives of radicals in the Vietnam era, revolving around the postwar relationship of Japan, Okinawa, and the United States. - Anthology Film Archives
Noted Japanese documentary director Kazuo Hara makes an obsessive, compelling film about Takeda Miyuki, his former lover. Drawn by her letters, he goes to Okinawa and documents this remarkably strong-willed woman as she has a relationship with an African-American soldier, bears their interracial child alone, and discusses the director's shortcomings with Hara's producer and lover, Sachiko Kobayashi. This film is a landmark in the development of Japanese documentaries, as it began a shift in perspective from collective films about social issues, as seen in Shinsuke Ogawa's early works, to intensely personal works about individuals. - Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide
Technical Specs
Group/Ripper: fico
Video Format: AVI - XviD
Video Bitrate: 922 Kbps
Frame Rate: 23.976 fps
Aspect Ratio: 4:3
Resolution: 544 x 416
Audio Format: MP3 VBR
Audio Bitrate: 81.9 Kbps
