While Mishima has just committed suicide in public, two couples accidentally meet in an inn in
the countryside: the man and the woman, now with different companions, had known each
other years ago…Read More »
Hiroshi Yajima
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Kôji Wakamatsu – Segura magura: shinitai onna aka The Woman Who Wanted to Die (1970)
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Kôji Wakamatsu – Hika AKA Secret Flower (1971)
1971-1980AsianEroticaJapanKoji Wakamatsu
A very rare ATG distributed Wakamatsu, starring Ken Yoshizawa and Rie Yokoyama as two pieces of a destructive love-triangle. Has all the usual Wakamatsu themes of politics, suicide and twisted love, as well as stylish Hideo Ito cinematography and great use of the more or less single set (a beach with an abandoned boat on it).Read More »