Dare to Stop Us
New York Asian Film Festival 2019
June 28 - July 11, 2019
Kazuya Shiraishi, who cut his teeth making exploitation pictures at Wakamatsu Productions, has now directed this rambunctious, fact-based account of one young dreamer who joins Wakamatsu in 1969 to make pinku eiga, struggling to fit into the testosterone-heavy “family” and find her own voice.
The 1960s-’70s marked the Golden Age of Wakamatsu Productions, founded by revolutionary auteur Koji Wakamatsu (Caterpillar) and staffed (for free) with radical young artists like avant-garde filmmaker Masao Adachi, cinematographer Hideo Ito, and scriptwriter Haruhiko Arai. Kazuya Shiraishi (The Blood of Wolves) also cut his teeth making low-budget exploitation pictures at the company, and has now directed this rambunctious, fact-based account of one young dreamer, Megumi Yoshizumi, who joins Wakamatsu in 1969 to make pinku eiga (softcore porn). As she struggles to fit into the testosterone-heavy “family,” and to find her own voice, Megumi’s life becomes equal parts heroic and tragic.
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