Kôji Wakamatsu

After being raped in an unknown rooftop, nineteen year-old girl Poppo meets a mysterious boy, and both share their sexual traumas and fears, with fatal consequences. (imdb)

A man keeps his girlfriend tied up in his small apartment and tortures her. She is undressed, subjected to various types of bondage, whipped, and tortured with a razor blade. He also brushes her hair, applies make-up on her, and brakes down and cries in the fetal position. (Wikipedia.org)

Wakamatsu here tells the story of the Asama-Sanso hostage drama, which riveted Japan for ten days in 1972, and remains as evocative there as the words "Patty Hearst" or "Munich '72" are in the west. The Asama-Sanso incident brought a bloody end to not just a small group of radical extremists, but also to the idealism of the 1960's, as the romance of rebellion gave way to the darker sides of human nature, from Altamont to the Japanese mountainside. (Kosmorama.no)

We are presented with a car full of four gangsters, and another of four prostitutes, apparently loosely attached to the gang. They have a bound couple they are taking to a desolate area to torture. (imdb)

Inspired by a true story, Wakamatsu shows his protagonist (a largely wordless, engaging performance by youngster Emoto) biking through beautiful landscapes but discovering the ugly side of Japanese history as he is propelled towards his own catharsis. In mostly improvised scenes, Emoto meets a series of older citizens with deep and sometimes shocking experiences to recount. (Roger Garcia for SFIFF)

Two police put a student militant under surveillance, but nothing seems to be happening except a lot of sex with his two girlfriends. (craigslist.org)

Ecstasy of the Angels, a jarring exercise in experimental cinema clothed in pink film trappings, trails a leftist terrorist unit that, after a failed attempt to steal weapons from a US military base, learns that they might have been set up to fail by their parent organization. Dispensing with conventional storytelling, Wakamatsu plunges the viewer into a melange of political dissertations, rough and sweaty sex, explosions and swanky nightclubs. (cinefamily.org)

Experimental propaganda film for the Japanese Red Army.

Three university dropouts decide to rape a woman out of boredom.

In 1940 during the second sino-Japanese war Lieutenant Kurokawa returns home to his wife Shigeko. But what use are his honours and medals when it is not her husband she welcomes home but crippled men without legs, arms, or the ability to speak.

A 16-year-old student with sex on his mind looks at magazines of nude women instead of his school books in this lurid, low-budget mystery. He watches a married woman through a telescope when she has an affair while her husband is away. After the testosterone-charged teen fails to rape his sister in the shower, he makes a play for the unfaithful neighbor woman. She gives in after initial resistance, but the teen ends up murdering her with a knife. (answers.com)

A man penetrates by night in a nurse dormitory planning to kill them all. While he accomplishes to his self imposed task thoughts and obsessions come to his mind revealing his love deficits, his needs. The clash between violence (both sexual and physical) and love frustration slowly comes to a solution as the victims fall by until the last woman who comprehends his needs. (imdb)

Set in the near future, a small gang of revolutionary students are hidden away by a small-time thief. While they are hiding, all but the thief take turns having sex with an unhappy (and perhaps unwilling) girl who has had the misfortune to get involved with them. Through news reports, they discover that someone has been terrorizing police stations and communist headquarters in Japan just as they had hoped to do. (ONiE)

A young student activist flees from Tokyo with his beautiful sister-in-law after he accidently shoots his brother, a policeman, during a squabble after a major political demonstration. As they attempt to suppress their guilt and the desire they feel for one another, they are haunted by visions of the murdered husband. (Jasper Sharp)

This Japanese torture flick offers the viewer four misogynistic and cruel stories.

The film chronicles a few days in the life of cycling serial rapist and murderer.

A wife with a fertility problem wants to use her sister's womb to have children, but her sister is enjoying her boyfriend and sexual freedom. The husband is a commanding chauvinist and this soon turns out to be an uninteresting study on authority, patriarchy and conservatism vs. free love and youth culture.

A man comes to Tokyo from the countryside looking for his son's killer. (imdb)

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...

Three gangsters rob the loot of a trade between two gangs. They also take a hostage with them -a woman, who is part of one of the two gangs- and take refuge in an apartment where they choose to hide for some time. But one of the three gangsters seem to have different plans: he wants the money and the woman for himself only... (blaqout.com)

On November 25th 1970, a man committed ritual suicide inside the Tokyo headquarters of the Japanese Ministry of Defense. The man was Yukio Mishima, one of Japan's greatest and most celebrated novelists.With four members of his own private army -- the Tatenokai -- Mishima had taken the commandant hostage and called upon the assembled military outside the Ministry to overthrow their society and restore the powers of the Emperor. (mubi.com)

A married man with a boring job envisions a way to end this misery while keeping his family life. He schemes chloroforming an attractive waitress. He chloroforms her as she sleeps, and he has sex with her. He does the same with other women as well, but returns to the waitress, at times living a token for her. By mistake, he removes his mask and falls unconscious and wakes up in her room and start thinking about what the outcome will be of his foolishness.

Rie and Kishi runs a detective agency in Paris. Fallen flooding not directly and they supplement their budget with guiding Japanese tourists. This takes over when the crime boss Okuyama gives them the assignment to shadow his French mistress. Kishi falls head over heels for her while Okuyama has something weird in sight.

A sort of sequel to Torture Chronicles: 100 Years of Torture Inquisition, and much along the same lines as that and Female Rape and Torture as far as plot and production values goes. (wipfilms.net)

Koji Wakamatsu's film about a Japanese free jazz/improvisation saxophonist named Kaoru Abe. (imdb)

The blood of the Nakamoto's family is cursed, so their members are handsome but condemned to violently die young. Oryu, a midwife, has watched some of them growing up, living and dying. Now she's old and, talking with the animated photograph of her dead husband (a monk), she recollects the story of their tragic existence.

A brother and sister live as outcasts from their hamlet due to a belief that mental illness runs in their family. A group of villagers plot to steal their property by beating and hanging the brother and gang-raping the sister. Believing the brother to be dead, scheming to kill the sister, and making both deaths look like accidents... unbeknownst to them, the brother survives and proceeds on a mission to slaughter those responsible in the hamlet. (themoviedb.org)

A hitman focuses on his job hoping to retire quickly and richly. But the betrayal of his clan and those he loves endangers his plan. (imdb)

A detective investigating a serial rapist discovers that he and the perpetrator come from the same lineage of depraved individuals, a genealogy of violent and sexually perverse deviants that streches through the Meiji, Taisho and Showa eras and can even be traced back to the Edo era. (KG)

Study about a young disturbed man, who rapes and kills women and collects their bodies in a cave. A work based on the case of Yoshio Kodaira, a serial rape murder case shortly after the war.

A story about a female reporter investigating sex workers in Shinjuku.

Kayo, who is famous for her beauty, own a bar in a port town. The establishment is always crowded with customers infatuated with her. For the past three years, Kayo has been in a relationship with Murakami, a city councilman. One day, a young man and woman, Jun and Yoko, come to town. They are planning to stow away somewhere, but no one will take them in. Exhausted, they happen to come to Kayo’s bar. (tmdb)

A Chinese woman is not content with just one man and seduces several for lust and sex. This behaviour and needs accelerate to the point that she definitively gets rid of one man to gain the other. She is now the wife of a man with multiple wives and subject to their scorn and occasional punishment. Her beauty and skin only gets her so far. (imdb)

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

A press photographer returns to Japan from the war in Vietnam after losing his friend and fellow photographer on the battlefield.

Love Robots are beautiful young girls, abducted right off the street who, through a procedure that rivals anything the Marquis de Sade might have dreamt of, are turned into monsters, capable of killing a man or loving him on command. The Love Robots then become an item for sale, willing to accept any master and perform any act. (imdb)

A high school student preparing for his university entrance exams is discontent with various social inequities and is determined to take vengeance on all adults.

A high school student who doesn't manage to sleep with girls decides to rely on rape.

Eros Eterna tells the story of a legendary immortal nun who wanders around encountering several people of various conditions.

In the Edo era, two men arrived in a village and engaged in criminal activity. While one of them becomes successful and rich, the other gets betrayed and ends up in prison, burning for revenge.

In this omnibus movie of four stories about teenagers, there is a boy who lives next to a university women's dormitory and he checks them out constantly. He finds out about their relationship with men. He decides to forget about them and decides to date a classmate. Next three boys want to rent an adult video, but cannot due to their age. Instead, they make their own. They meet a girl who is a video store clerk. They fall in love.

Meiji period: Two peasants try to help a woman who is abused by police.

LEAD TOMBSTONE tracks the progress of a young sociopathic rake who had, immediately post-WW2, rescued his country farmer mother from rape by stabbing the offending American soldier in the back with a pitchfork. Once grown, the boy continues his violent life as a hoodlum on the run, repaying an outlaw couple who have sheltered him by raping the wife, then, at his boss’s behest, murdering the husband. He’s also not above strangling a girl in her bathtub for kicks.

A doctor, a gynecologist, discovers the corpse of his wife. His nurse advises him to declare her death a simple heart attack, to clear himself without the slightest doubt. He refuses and calls the police force there. The interrogation of the doctor, then other witnesses, slowly reveals the truth of her demise…

A rock singer who has returned to the U.S. approaches his former musician friends with the soulful sound of reggae that he encountered during his stay in the U.S. However, his friends lost their old energy and were busy chasing only the songs that would sell, and did not pay attention to reggae. Eventually, the lonely and violent rock singer turns to mass indiscriminate murder out of repugnance to the blurred times and humanity.

A middle-aged man discovers an injured refugee woman trembling in the corner of his bar in Kabukicho. He quickly becomes aware that her life is in his hands when he learns she is hiding from the yakuza.

There has been a murder. A man is found dead in the house of a prostitute who is arrested as a suspect. But she tells of her life as a peasant, blown up and sold to a brothel by her uncle, and how she gains position until she meets the dead man.

Young slacker couple accidentally kills a friend. They burn his body and hang out 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.

An office worker who dreams of peaceful happiness with her boyfriend is forced into prostitution by the Yakuza.

A man leaves his family in Tokyo to travel and engage in various sexual escapades. When he returns home he finds out that his wife is starring in Imamura's documentary about her search for her missing husband.

A drama depicting a girl suffering from prenatal radiation damage caused by the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.