Hiroshi Yajima

At the same time as Yukio Mishima has committed suicide in public, two couples accidentally meet at an inn in the countryside. The man and the woman, now with different companions, had known each other years ago...

A suicidal woman and a disillusioned political couple meet on a beach.

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.