Help Needed (pinku eiga identification)

[J.sharp]

Stephen's right. Its JOUJI NO RIREKISHO.
It's an early masterpiece of the pink genre, a highly influential film, and
one of Wakamatsu's best in my opinio. It was also the first he produced
through his own company, Wakamatsu Pro (though he'd made plenty of others
for companies such as Nihon Shinema in the few years running up to this.)

Note that the imdb lists an English title of George's Love Affairs, which is
utterly wrong - as is the claim that it was a Nikkatsu production.
(http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0291282/)

The film is best known in English as Chronicles of an Affair. It's heavily
indebted to Imamura's Insect Woman, and forged a template which was used in
many 60s pink films (at least, on the evidence we have of the dozen or so
pink films from this decade currently available) - young girl from a small
parochial country village is raped and ravaged at the hands of local
roughnecks, escapes to a new life in the big city of Tokyo, and finds a
pretty similar fate awaiting her there. There's a political subtext in the
form of a critique of patriarchal authority buried somewhere within all the
exploitation, as manifested by the neon sign referring to the Ampo Treaty in
the final frame. Very interesting film - needs to be more widely seen.

Another giant of the pink genre Kan Mukai made a sequel (though probably in
name only) entitled Continuation: Chronicles of an Affair (Tsuki: Jouji no
Rirekisho) the following year in 1966, though the film no longer seems to
exist, while the last part of this unofficial trilogy New Chronicles of an
Affair (Shin Jouji no Rirekisho) came from the lesser known Osamu Yamashita
in 1967. This last film was made available on vhs by Hummingbird, and is
noteworthy for being one of one the first batch of 3 full-colour pink films
(another is Kan Mukai's Blue Film no Onna, which is also still extant).

Yamashita's film is also very interesting in that as well as reprising the
opening of Wakamatsu's original film, changing it from a poor country girl
from the mountainous Tohoku area being raped in the middle of a snow drift
to a young ama girl being raped on the beach who later attempts to start a
new life as a nude model in Tokyo. It also ends with a scene of the girl
molested by two GIs outside Yokotsuka Airbase - remember Takechi Tetsuji had
been prosecuted for obscenity a mere 2 years before for a similar scene in
Black Snow.

Jasper






--------- Original Message --------
From: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu
To: KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu <KineJapan at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Subject: Re: Help Needed (pinku eiga identification)
Date: 01/11/06 06:54

>
> It's a 1965 Wakamatsu Koji film called &quot;Joji no rirekisho&quot;
starring Chigusa Midori and Saegusa Yoko.
>
> Stephen
>
>
> On Wednesday, November 01, 2006, at 10:02PM, &quot;Steven C Harrison&quot;
&lt;harrisonstevenc at yahoo.com&gt; wrote:
> &gt;Group,
> &gt;
> &gt;  I was hoping someone on this list could help me identify this film.
> &gt;I have a snapshot of the title (which I can't decipher).  Here's the
> &gt;link:
> &gt;
> &gt;  http://www.geocities.com/harrizonn/PDVD_000.JPG
> &gt;
> &gt;  unless there's some larger confusion about this, I think it would be
> &gt;better to get offlist responses.
> &gt;
> &gt;  cheers,
> &gt;
> &gt;  Steven Harrison
> &gt;  Greensboro, NC
> &gt;
> &gt;
> &gt;---------------------------------
> &gt;Everyone is raving about the  all-new Yahoo! Mail.
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