Running in Madness, Dying in Love (1969)
Running in Madness, Dying in Love (1969)
DVDRip | AVI | 656 x 272 | XviD @ 1249 Kbps | 72 min | 738 Mb
Audio: Japanese MP3 @ 96 Kbps | Subs: English (idx/sub)
Genre: Art-house, Drama, Pinku
DVDRip | AVI | 656 x 272 | XviD @ 1249 Kbps | 72 min | 738 Mb
Audio: Japanese MP3 @ 96 Kbps | Subs: English (idx/sub)
Genre: Art-house, Drama, Pinku
From the director of Shojo geba geba: Rare Koji Wakamatsu film from 1969, about two escaped lovers fleeing across rural Japan in the snow country, blinded by their love and blind to the tragic consequences. Weird erotic scenes and breath-taking photography.
During the 1960s, censorship laws forbade Japanese filmmakers from showing full nudity and sex. The Japanese pinku eiga genre, approximately translated as “softcore pornography” in English, was born of the attempt to represent eroticism through alternative means. With a meticulous eye for mise en scène, directors used elaborate props such as lamps and bottles to obscure the genitals (a visual gag used to much crass effect by Mike Myers in the the late nineties) and often operated on low budgets and limited resources. Out of this period of Japanese cinema, Koji Wakamatsu is one of the most recognized and controversial directors.The director did more than just push the sexual taboos of 20th century Japan. Wakamatsu’s films, frequently shot in one location with single takes, took on explicit themes of sex and violence while defining the aesthetic avant-garde of Japanese cinema.
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Lesser-known but still packing a mad punch, Running In Madness… tells of a student activist who is forced to flee Tokyo with his sister-in-law after he inadvertently shoots his police officer brother at a protest rally. We follow the two as they travel north to their hometown of Hokkaido, across a majestic winter landscape. Shot in a stellar psychedelic style and scripted by frequent collaborator Masao Adachi, the story was influenced by Adachi’s time spent with master director Nagisa Oshima, which led to Adachi’s development of a more rigorous, formal approach to his work. Running In Madness is one of the first Japanese films to employ “Landscape Theory” (fukei-ron), a style of storytelling, according to Adachi, in which “all the landscapes one faces in…daily life, even those such as the beautiful sites shown on a postcard, are essentially related to the figure of a ruling power.
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Running in Madness, Dying in Love (1969)
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