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The magnum opus of Koji Wakamatsu is actually not a low budget pink/exploitation film but a true political epic of 190 minutes that would stay in history both for the final result, and for the production details, before, during and after the shootings were completed. To finance the film, Wakamatsu flooded Tokyo with pamphlets requesting pledges of substantial sums of money to finance the project, with Jim O’Rourke (ex-member of Sonic Youth and the one who was responsible for the soundtrack) and film critic Inuhiko Yomota being among those who decided to help. When it became obvious that the funding was not enough, he mortgaged his house, which, he used to shoot the finale of the movie, destroying it in the process. Furthermore, he demanded that the actresses would not wear make-up, that they would arrive on the set already wearing their costumes and that their managers would not be...

The magnum opus of Koji Wakamatsu is actually not a low budget pink/exploitation film but a true political epic of 190 minutes that would stay in history both for the final result, and for the production details, before, during and after the shootings were completed. To finance the film, Wakamatsu flooded Tokyo with pamphlets requesting pledges of substantial sums of money to finance the project, with Jim O’Rourke (ex-member of Sonic Youth and the one who was responsible for the soundtrack) and film critic Inuhiko Yomota being among those who decided to help. When it became obvious that the funding was not enough, he mortgaged his house, which, he used to shoot the finale of the movie, destroying it in the process. Furthermore, he demanded that the actresses would not wear make-up, that they would arrive on the set already wearing their costumes and that their managers would not...