You might read the title of this movie and think it absurd or hyberbolic, the way every other pizza place in New York claims to serve the most mouthwatering, delicious pizza the Big Apple has to offer. However, if you think this, you’d be wrong, as the title of Kazuo Hara’s 1974 home-video style documentary may be absurd, but is anything but hyperbolic. Truthfully, as the name suggests, “Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974” is an extremely private study of womanhood in 70s Japan, told via a nothing-is-off-limits profile of Hara’s ex-girlfriend and her home life. 50 years later, the work remains a triumph in the Japanese documentarian’s already impressively daring ouvre.
“Extreme Private Eros Love” is screening at Japan Society
The movie opens with Hara going to visit his ex-lover, radical feminist, and mother of his child, Miyuki Takeda. Miyuki and her son are currently living in Okinawa,...
“Extreme Private Eros Love” is screening at Japan Society
The movie opens with Hara going to visit his ex-lover, radical feminist, and mother of his child, Miyuki Takeda. Miyuki and her son are currently living in Okinawa,...
- 6/28/2021
- by Luke Georgiades
- AsianMoviePulse
Japan Society Celebrates the 50th Anniversary of Independent Film Company Shisso Productions with Online Retrospective that Includes their Latest 372-minute Documentary Epic Minamata Mandala
June 4–July 2
Japan Society announces Cinema as Struggle: The Films of Kazuo Hara & Sachiko Kobayashi, a career-spanning online retrospective that celebrates the 50th anniversary of Shisso Productions, the independent film company founded by influential Japanese documentarian Kazuo Hara and his wife, producer and collaborator, influential Japanese documentarian Kazuo Hara and his wife, producer and collaborator, Sachiko Kobayashi in 1971. The series includes nearly all of the pair’s films, including their most recent release, “Minamata Mandala”—a sprawling three-part epic 15 years in the making. All films will stream nationwide through Japan Society’s virtual cinema from June 4-July 2 with some films also available to stream in Canada.
Widely-recognized for their complicated and deeply personal portraits of iconoclastic individuals, Hara and Kobayashi’s work—hailed by documentary luminaries...
June 4–July 2
Japan Society announces Cinema as Struggle: The Films of Kazuo Hara & Sachiko Kobayashi, a career-spanning online retrospective that celebrates the 50th anniversary of Shisso Productions, the independent film company founded by influential Japanese documentarian Kazuo Hara and his wife, producer and collaborator, influential Japanese documentarian Kazuo Hara and his wife, producer and collaborator, Sachiko Kobayashi in 1971. The series includes nearly all of the pair’s films, including their most recent release, “Minamata Mandala”—a sprawling three-part epic 15 years in the making. All films will stream nationwide through Japan Society’s virtual cinema from June 4-July 2 with some films also available to stream in Canada.
Widely-recognized for their complicated and deeply personal portraits of iconoclastic individuals, Hara and Kobayashi’s work—hailed by documentary luminaries...
- 6/5/2021
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
Sennan Asbestos Disaster. Image courtesy of Shisso Productions.With Sennan Asbestos Disaster (2017), iconoclastic director Kazuo Hara makes a return ten years in progress, following his previous film The Many Faces of Chika (2005). At three hours and thirty-five minutes (usually screened with a short intermission), the film has many apparent differences from the past breathless titles for which he became known beginning in the early 1970s. Focused on a strong central protagonist pursuing a radical goal, these works depended on sustained conflict and collaboration between filmmaker and subject, defining a model of filmmaking he would theorize as “action documentary.” In distinction, this latest work is an ensemble piece assembled over a long period of time. Sennan Asbestos Disaster is focused on members of the Citizen Group for Sennan Asbestos Damage and their long legal battle that began with the filing of a lawsuit against the government in 2006 and went up to the Supreme Court.
- 11/28/2017
- MUBI
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