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	Koji Wakamatsu (1936 - ) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Koji Wakamatsu (born April 1, 1936, in Wakuya, Miyagi, Japan) is a Japanese film director who directed such pinku eiga films as Ecstacy of the Angels and Go, Go Second Time Virgin.
		Koji Wakamatsu (born in 1936) is Japan's most notorious underground filmmaker, a combination of Godard, Gregg Araki, and Jesus Franco.
		Koji Wakamatsu is one of the more important directors to have worked in the pink film (pinku eiga), a genre of softcore, dramatically charged films which were dominant on the Japanese domestic scene in the 1960’s and 1970’s (the roman porn were a more radical and explicit subset of the pink film).
	www.jahsonic.com /WakamatsuKoji.html (923 words)

	dOc DVD Review: Go, Go Second Time Virgin (1969)
		Koji Wakamatsu's 1969 underground film Go, Go Second Time Virgin (Yuke yuke nidome no shojo) tells the story of Poppo (Mimi Kozakura), a disadvantaged girl raped (for the second time in her young life) by a gang of street ruffians one August night in Tokyo.
		Wakamatsu's film implies that, for his characters at least, sexuality is dark and dangerous—while Poppo spends most of the film in the nude, she and Tsukio never consummate their love physically.
		Koji Wakamatsu's films have rarely been seen in the US, and this is an eye-opening introduction to his darkly stylish cinematic world.
	www.digitallyobsessed.com /showreview.php3?ID=817 (1189 words)

	SaruDama: Ecstasy of the Angels (Wakamatsu Koji 1972) - Japanese Movies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Wakamatsu has been dubbed the "Master of the Pink Movie", referring to the radical politics and flashy scenes of sex and violence characteristic of his movies.
		Wakamatsu had the opportunity to watch the violent student revolutions in Tokyo during the late 60's and early 70's.
		Wakamatsu's conclusion was that in order for the movement to be successful, it would have had to be a radically individualized, non-allegianced revolution.
	www.sarudama.com /japanese_movies/ecstasyofangels.shtml (906 words)

	Amazon.ca: Ecstasy of the Angels (Widescreen): DVD: Koji Wakamatsu,Masao Adachi,Michio Akiyama,Rie Yokoyama,Yosuke ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The '60s are definitely over in director Koji Wakamatsu's outrageous look at the Japanese radical movement.
		This go around, Wakamatsu evokes the cloistered life and dry-mouthed paranoia of radical terrorists on the lam while fusing it with a dizzying assault of violent sex and nudity.
		Wakamatsu makes deft use of sudden shifts in time, film stock (fl-and-white to color), sound effects, and music to heighten the film's lyrical, nightmarish quality.
	www.amazon.ca /Ecstasy-Angels-Widescreen-Koji-Wakamatsu/dp/B000051S7H (571 words)

	Koji Wakamatsu's Ecstasy of Angels
		The film is a Japanese New Wave politico-anarchist fable with thin-bare plot that revolves around a group of young terrorists who call themselves by the names of the week and their organization by the name of months (the Four Seasons Association).
		Although the film has much in common with Wakamatsu’s contemporary Seijun Suzuki, another pink film expert, it feels Godardian in that there is an affinity for the political ideals of the central protagonists, but also a comical awareness of the fallibility of any such insular political movement.
		Wakamatsu cuts from CUs of the singer to high angle establishing shots of the bar, then to a medium shot of the table which is then punctuated by a slow dolly in to one of the seated men.
	www.horschamp.qc.ca /new_offscreen/ecstasy_angels.html (1283 words)

	Cycling Chronicles: Landscapes the Boy Saw \| San Francisco Film Festival
		Wakamatsu has long been driven by a sense of political and social outrage, and a sympathy for those who have been marginalized or suppressed by dominant history and institutions.
		Inspired by a true story of a teenager who killed his mother and then cycled aimlessly from Tokyo to Aomori, Wakamatsu shows his protagonist (a largely wordless, engaging performance by youngster Emoto) biking through beautiful landscapes but discovering the ugly side of Japanese history as he is propelled towards his own catharsis.
		In mostly improvised scenes, Emoto meets a series of older citizens with deep and sometimes shocking experiences to recount: fishermen forced by government regulations to operate outside the law to survive; an elderly Korean who was brought to Japan as a comfort woman and then abandoned by her husband.
	fest06.sffs.org /films/film_details.php?id=18 (299 words)

	Amazon.ca: Go Go Second Time Virgin: DVD: Koji Wakamatsu,Michio Akiyama,Mimi Kozakura (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		A girl (Mimi Kozakura) is forcibly carried to a rooftop and gang-raped, as a boy of similar age (Michio Akiyama) stands to the side watching the events unfold.
		Wakamatsu's film is considered one of the classics of late 60's, early 70's Japanese underground film and that is unfortunate.
		Japanese avant-garde soft porn from maniac genius Koji Wakamatsu, who produced dozens of surreal, bleak pink films in the late sixties.
	www.amazon.ca /Go-Second-Time-Virgin/dp/B000051S7J (1308 words)

	Film Threat
		Wakamatsu gets away with his graphic images of sex and violence because they are staged in ways that resonate emotionally for both the characters and the audience.
		Wakamatsu deserves snaps too for his subversive commentary on the misogynist leanings of traditional pink films.
		The main male character is impotent with the woman he lusts after and in one startling scene, Poppo, the pathetic, passive victim of multiple rapes, breaks the third wall, in a sense, by defiantly proclaiming, “I am not a woman.
	www.filmthreat.com /index.php?section=reviews&Id=5060 (812 words)

	Midnight Eye feature: The Anticipation of Freedom - Art Theatre Guild and Japanese independent cinema
		Koji Wakamatsu, Masao Adachi and other radicals turned their pink eiga into political propaganda, others such as Atsushi Yamatoya used them for formal experiments.
		The manager of the Art Theatre Shinjuku Bunka, Kinshiro Kuzui, is to be thanked for the fact that the films of these directors were made available to a large audience and that they were taken seriously by the critics.
		The highlight of their political films is Koji Wakamatsu's Ecstasy of the Angels (Tenshi No Kokotsu), which was, in 1971, closer to the events of the day than any other film.
	www.midnighteye.com /features/art-theatre-guild.shtml (5641 words)

	San Francisco International Film Festival 2006--Part 1 Film and history (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In a sense, Wakamatsu makes the same mistake as so many of his contemporaries, assuming that the wordless scenes, juxtaposed to the relatively brief dialogues, will resonate with meaning.
		Wakamatsu explained to interviewer Bertolin, “The old man is not an actor, but art critic Hariu Ichiro, a friend of mine who shares a lot of my political views.
		I asked him to act in the film, just to talk about his 17 years [the translation is unclear here, presumably Wakamatsu meant “to talk about what he was like at 17,” which Ichiro does in the film], about the war, about the Emperor, with complete freedom of speech.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2006/may2006/sff1-m13.shtml (2518 words)

	Midnight Eye review: Erotic Liaisons (Erotikuna Kankei, 1992, director: Koji WAKAMATSU)
		Her appearance in Koji Wakamatsu's Erotic Liaisons, however, piques the curiosity as to what sort of public image she was exactly trying to cultivate at the time.
		Grandfather of the Japanese sex film Koji Wakamatsu pioneered the pinku genre with films like Skeleton in the Closet (Kabe No Naka No Himegoto, 1965) and Violated Angels (Okasareta Hakui, 1967), his work becoming increasingly sadistic with the spirit of the times with the likes of Torture Chronicles: 100 Years (Gomon Hyaku-nen, 1975).
		In this film at least it looked like she did have what it took to make the transition to a serious film actress, but unfortunately her off-screen fortunes took a decided turn for the worse the following year when she was publicly jilted by the sumo wrestling star Takenohana.
	www.midnighteye.com /reviews/ertliais.shtml (846 words)

	Go, Go Second Time Virgin
		Wakamatsu uses to powerful effect a long take, for the first of many times, when he cuts during the rape to an off-center close-up of Poppo with the calm, indifferent ocean waves careening in the background.
		Although Wakamatsu plays within the boundaries of the pink film, there are always brief moments that suggest a resistance to the genre’s misogynist strains.
		For example, the way Wakamatsu uses the high angle shot to frame them in vast spaces that render their sense of isolation, or the way he shoots them tightly or through framing devices to augment the sense of hopelessness and ‘huis clos.’
	www.horschamp.qc.ca /new_offscreen/go.html (924 words)

	SaruDama: The Notorious Concubines (Wakamatsu Koji 1968) - Japanese Movies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Director Wakamatsu Koji is a "notorious" (get it?) filmmaker whose cinematic vision and personal exploits have placed him on more than one government's "fllist".
		There is also a hint of socialist politics here of which Wakamatsu is so fond, pitting the welfare of the common man against the greed of the aristocracy, but this too comes across as a mere whimper compared to his truly political films such as Ecstasy of the Angels (1972).
		I personally would advise against renting this as a Wakamatsu film unless you are interested in seeing what he's willing to do for money when he needs it.
	www.sarudama.com /japanese_movies/concubine.shtml (686 words)

	Koji Wakamatsu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Kanzen naru shiiku: akai satsui (2004) (as Kôji Wakamatsu)
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	The Films of Koji Wakamatsu
		Leading the experimental pack is director Koji Wakamatsu, whose bizarre career spans from the early '60s to the late '90s and threatens to make the work of contemporaries like Seijun Suzuki (Branded to Kill) look almost genteel in comparison.
		The disc also includes a shot-on-video interview with Wakamatsu, introduced with some on-the-fly artsy tracking shots, in which he discusses his career and offers some concise remarks about the state of Japanese cinema both past and present.
		Not for everyone, obviously, but this is a good place to start to learn more about a director who remains almost entirely unknown in the West.
	www.mondo-digital.com /gogo.html (771 words)

	Intelliflix: Rent Ecstasy Of The Angels on DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Ecstasy Of The Angels is a bitterly humorous, disturbing and deeply personal dissection of how ruling powers exploit human weaknesses in order to factionalize, then neutralize fringe elements that could possibly destabilize society.
		No matter how horrifying the subject matter, no matter how unflinching the camera eye that refuses to look away, Japanese director Koji Wakamatsu wields an uncanny power to mesmerize the viewer.
		He has the ability to depict disturbed mental states with a gritty visual eloquence, supplying an unobtrusive psychological subtext that coaxes a mysterious compassion for even the most unsympathetic monsters.
	www.intelliflix.com /movie_view.dvd?id=7928 (353 words)

	Amazon.com: Ecstasy of the Angels: DVD: Koji Wakamatsu,Ken Yoshizawa,Rie Yokoyama,Yuki Arasa,Masao Adachi,Michio ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
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		Starring: Ken Yoshizawa, Rie Yokoyama Director: Koji Wakamatsu Rating
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	DVD Empire - Item - Go, Go Second Time Virgin / DVD-Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Director Koji Wakamatsu's intense, claustrophobic peephole into a maelstrom of aberrant human behavior, Go, Go, Second Time Virgin is the story of two damned and abused teenagers who meet and fall in mutant love on a Tokyo rooftop.
		Their only hope is to cement their love with an escape into oblivion.
		Japan's most notorious underground filmmaker, Wakamatsu -- a combination of Godard, Gregg Araki and Jesus Franco -- has fashioned a haunting, unforgettable film.
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	Koji Wakamatsu retrospective at The Marmot’s Hole
		Cinemateque Seoul is holding next month a retrospective on Japanese director Koji Wakamatsu, considered the master of the Pink Film (or Pinku eiga).
		The director will also be coming to Korea to give a master class.
		Wakamatsu is an ultra-leftist and activist for Japanese Red Army.
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	Koji Wakamatsu Shoki Kessakusen DVD Box 4 - Order Now!
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	Go, Go Second Time Virgin movie for sale (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
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		From Japan's most outrageous film director of the 1960s-1970s, Koji Wakamatsu, comes yet another twisted yet beautiful tale.
		The haunting story of two demoralized teenagers who find in each other that which is lacking in their corrupted lives, and decide to drift off into the unknown future together.
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	Koji Wakamatsu Shoki Kessakusen DVD Box - Order Now!
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	Amazon.com: The Notorious Concubines: DVD: Koji Wakamatsu,Tomoko Mayama,Shikokyu Takashima,Juzo Itami,Ruriko Asari,Riko ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Awash in sex, violence, and brutality, this wicked art-house exploitation epic is stylishly directed by Koji Wakamatsu, the controversial director of such Japanese cult hits as "Ecstasy of the Angels" and "Go, Go, Second Time Virgin."
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		Koji Wakamatsu - Director, Shin-Chen Wang - Writer, Jiku Yamatoya - Writer, Kiyoshi Ogasawara - Producer (producer), Hideo Tomohisa - Producer (assistant producer)...
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	TabHeaven.com - Store :: Go, Go Second Time Virgin
		Comment: Some time ago I picked up Jack Hunter's excellent book about Sex, Blood And Madness in Japanese Cinema, Eros In Hell.
		Comment: It would be hard to find a bleaker film.
		Comment: This is Koji Wakamutsu's Yuke, Yuke Nidome No Shojo.
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