Koji Wakamatsu

Love Will Tear Us Apart: The Woman Who Wanted To Die (1970)

Love Will Tear Us Apart: The Woman Who Wanted To Die (1970)

Sex entwined with death and politics finds an even more ardent interpretation in this film, which begins with the martial-sexual posturing of a group of men and one woman, presumably before they commit collective suicide. Presumably, for snatches of images of novelist/actor/ultra... Read More »

Love Will Tear Us Apart: Running in Madness, Dying in Love(1969)

Love Will Tear Us Apart: Running in Madness, Dying in Love(1969)

Running in Madness, Dying in Love begins with a two-minute black-and-white montage of demonstrators and riot police, followed by a switch to colour and of one male protester Shihei (Yoshizawa Ken) escaping the fray and running in the streets. In this way, Wakamatsu leaves no doub... Read More »