Eros Plus Massacre

Eros Massacre , Erosu purasu gyakusatsu? is a Japanese blackandwhite film released in 1969. It was directed by Yoshishige Yoshida, who wrote it in cooperation with Masahiro Yamada. It is the first film in Yoshidas trilogy of Japanese radicalism, followed by Heroic Purgatory 1970 and Coup dEtat 1973.

The film is a biography of anarchist Sakae sugi, who was assassinated by the Japanese military in 1923. The story tells of his relationship with three women Hori Yasuko, his wife Noe It, his third lover, who was to die with him and his jealous, second lover, Masaoka Itsuko, a militant feminist who attempts to kill him in a tea house in 1916. Parallel to the telling of sugis life, two students Eiko and Wada do research on the political theories and ideas of free love that he upheld. Some of the characters from the past and from the present meet and engage the themes of the film.The film begins with Eiko interviewing Noe Its daughter Mako in order to shed some light onto Noes life. After that, we see a glimpse into Eiko and Wadas lives. Eiko believes in sugis principles of free love and the first time we meet her after the cold opening, shes making love with a film director but gets interrupted by Wada, so later she finishes herself off by masturbating in the shower. Shes also connected with an underground prostitution ring and is questioned by a police inspector. Meanwhile, Wada spends most of his time philosophizing with Eiko and playing with fire. The two sometimes engage in reenactments of lives of famous revolutionaries and martyrs. ........

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