“A HIGH-FLYING STYLE EXERCISE, WHICH A SINGLE VIEW CANNOT EXHAUST THE READING.”
THE WORLD
EROS + MASSACRE [LONG VERSION] (1969 – B&W – 209 mn)
While making love to Unema, a commercial director, a 20-year-old student, Eiko Sokutai, becomes aware of herself and her inevitable coldness. Shortly before, she met Wada, a young man of the same age, who unfortunately remains deaf to her advances. In order to better understand who she is, Eiko then takes an interest in the anarchist Sakae Ôsugi, who, in the Taishô era, was the champion and first follower of free love. She also follows in the footsteps of Noe Itô, assassinated with Ôsugi the day after the great earthquake of 1923 by an officer of the Japanese army…
The first part of a trilogy devoted to the great political movements of Japan in the 20th century, Eros + Massacre reinvents a whole section of cinematic language. In the manner of Rashômon , Kijû Yoshida denounces the notion of historical reality by a multiplication of points of view and signs a definitive masterpiece of striking plastic beauty.
EROS + MASSACRE [SHORT VERSION] (1969 – B&W – 158 min)
Eros + Massacre as it was released in Japan on March 14, 1970.
DVD edition only
SUPPLEMENTS
DVD 1
TRAILER
DVD 2
YOSHIDA OR THE SHATTERING OF THE STORY (29 mins)
Filmmaker Kijû Yoshida and film historians Jean Douchet and Mathieu Capel return to the figure of the historical character Sakae Ôsugi as well as the themes of Eros + Massacre and its radicalism.
TRAILER
Released on April 9, 2008
