OKASARETA BYAKUI

Koji Wakamatsu

Koji Wakamatsu (Miyagi, Japan, 1936 - Tokyo, Japan, 2012) was one of the greatest Japanese directors, coming from the New Wave in the 1960s. He specialized in pinku eiga and then realized a long series of innovative films, with many references to daily life Japanese society. Torino Film Festival presented in 1989 Violated Angels (1967), and then Cycling Chronicles (2005), United Red Army (2007) and Caterpillar (2010). His last film The Millennial Rapture (2012) was screened in Venice, short before his departure.

FILMOGRAFIA

Amai wana (1963), Kabe no naka no himegoto (Affairs within Walls, 1965), Taiji ga mitsuryosuru toki (Embrione, 1966), Yuke yuke nidome no shojo (Su su per la seconda volta vergine, 1969), Hika (1971), Tenshi no kôkotsu (Estasi degli angeli, 1972), Delta no okite (1975), Kagi (1983), Asu naki machikado (1997), 17-Sai no fukei (Cycling Chronicles, 2005), Jitsuroku rengo sekigun - Asama sanso e no michi (United Red Army, 2007), Caterpillar (2010), Sennen no yuraku (The Millennial Rapture, 2012).