A critique of the Japanese family, seen here as militaristic, absurdly incestuous and patriarchal. Nihilistic destruction by the young ones seems to be the only way out. This should be seen as Wakamatsu’s answer to Nagisa Oshima’s The Ceremony, made in the same year.
Mishima has just committed suicide. Two couples meet by accident at an inn in the countryside, the man and the woman, now, each with a new partner, who knew each other already for ten years...
The daughter of a geisha and restaurant owner approaches the son of a wealthy landowner. Aiming for his father's enormous fortune, she resorts to every kind of sensual scheme. This entertaining story depicts the ugly struggle between sex and desire in a light-hearted comedy. Surrounded by seductive...
The story of three boys who escape from prison, but their dream of freedom turns out to be nothing more than a dream. One is killed, one dies of an illness, and the remaining boy knocks on the prison door, begging to be let out...
