Pop Avant-Garde Violence: The Films Of Koji Wakamatsu
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Pop Avant-Garde Violence - Jack Hunter
POP AVANT-GARDE VIOLENCE
BY JACK HUNTER
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ISBN 978-1-908694-67-6
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THE FILMS OF KOJI WAKAMATSU
Born 1936 in Miyagi Prefecture, Koji Wakamatsu dropped out of Agricultural College in second grade, came to Tokyo and went through a succession of jobs including apprentice craftsman, delivery boy, and would-be gangster with the Shinjuku-based Yasuda-gumi
mob – the latter activity landing him a spell in prison. Released at the age of 23, he finally became an assistant director for TV films, and in 1963 broke into cinema by directing a proto-pink (erotic) movie called Amai-Wana (Sweet Trap). He soon became renowned as a pulp director, his projects already distinguished by vivid and violent scenes. These early films include Hageshii Onnatachi (Savage Women, 1963), Mesuinu No Kake (The Games Of Bitches, 1964), Hadaka No Kage (The Naked Shadow, 1964), and Akai Hanko (Red Crime, 1964). In Red Crime, the chaste wife of a public attorney is raped by an escaped convict, and the film examines in detail the sexual relations between the three protagonists. Here we can already trace the seminal motifs of Wakamatsu’s cinema: hatred, disgust for authority, and psycho-sexual disturbance.
By the time Tetsuji Takechi’s controversial erotic films Daydream (1964) and Black Snow (1965) were released, [1] Wakamatsu had already produced almost 20 films ranging in content from one flavour of the month to the next. Evidently inspired by Takechi’s revolutionary sex movies – and the New Wave
films of his spiritual mentor, Nagisa Oshima [2] – Wakamatsu, like Seijun Suzuki before him, now decided to indulge these influences within the confines of a Nikkatsu production. The results would have profound repercussions on his career.
The film that Wakamatsu produced – Kabe No Naka No Himegoto (Secret Acts Within Four Walls, 1965) – was a radical departure. [3] The original project was supposed to be a film on middle-class students, the pressures of their lives as they prepare for important examinations [4], their social interactions etc. Wakamatsu hijacked the basic framework and filled it with a shocking psychodrama of scopophilia, rape and murder. In this new version, the protagonist is a teenaged student facing his college entrance exams in the knowledge that he is doomed to fail due to his previously poor education. Frustrated and maddened by his inadequacy in the eyes of society, he becomes a compulsive voyeur, masturbating as he spies on various women. One of the objects of his gaze is a rich, middle-class