Name
Kōji Wakamatsu
Known For
Directing
Birthday
1936-04-01
Deathday
2012-10-17 (76 years old)
Place of Birth
Wakuya, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan
Biography
Kōji Wakamatsu (若松孝二 , 1 April 1936 – 17 October 2012) was a Japanese film director who directed such pinku eiga ('pink films') as Ecstasy of the Angels (1972) and Go, Go, Second Time Virgin (1969). He also produced Nagisa Ōshima's controversial film In the Realm of the Senses (1976). He has been called "the most important director to emerge in the pink film genre," and one of "Japan's leading directors of the 1960s." His 2010 film, Caterpillar, was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival.
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Known For
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A passionate telling of the story of Sada Abe, a woman whose affair with her master led to...
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After saving a girl from rape, a bored rail worker finds out about a chemical that makes p...
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Two of the most radical student groups form the United Red Army (URA) and head into the mo...
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The story of a village woman given the grueling task of looking after (and fulfilling the ...
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In a housing complex, a college prep student is spying on his neighbor, a former peace act...
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A militant revolutionary group is torn apart by betrayal as its members descend into paran...
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A girl becomes a pawn in the game between two rival gangs gangster....
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From an apartment belonging to a single woman, two detectives spy on sex-obsessed radical....
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Based on the mass murder spree of Richard Speck in 1966, a young man who broke into a nurs...
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AKA Serial Killer documents the social upheaval and political oppression that roiled Japan...
- 2006 What's a Director?
- 2003 Incessant Hell: The Vile Road of Finance
- 1967 Birth Control Revolution as Weekly magazine photographer
- 2022 シネマスコーレを解剖する。 コロナなんかぶっ飛ばせ
- 2006 Green Mind, Metal Bats as Oji-san
- 1994 The Mystery of Rampo as Cameo
- 2016 The Man Who Went Beyond Manga: Fujio Akatsuka as Self (archive footage)
- 2011 Pinku Eiga: Inside the Pleasure Dome of Japanese Erotic Cinema as Self
- 2003 In the Realm of the Senses: Recalling the Film as Self - Interviewee
- 2002 Under the Skin as Himself
- 2004 Pink Ribbon as Self
- 1998 Wind as Wind spirit
- 1975 Shinjuku Maria as Cameo
- 2007 Prisoner/Terrorist
- 2011 Pure Asia
- 1965 Blood of Lust Is Dripping as Man wearing sunglasses
- 1974 Wet Dice as Customer
- 1969 Running in Madness, Dying in Love as Sleigh driver
- 2009 Shinjuku Legend: Nagisa Yoko Shinjuku Koma Gewa-gewa Recital
- 1975 Egg Delivery Man : Attack on Keishicho
- Soon Empire of Passion: On the Set as Self (Production Consultant for "Empire of Passion")
