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Masahiro Yamada (writer)
Yoshishige Yoshida (writer)
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15 October 1969 (France) more
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Yoshishige Yoshida's Masterpiece! A formal guide-line to understand the Japanese New Wave. more (4 total)
Cast
(Credited cast)| Mariko Okada | ... | Noe Ito | |
| Toshiyuki Hosokawa | ... | Sakae Osugi | |
| Yûko Kusunoki | ... | Itsuko Masaoka | |
| Kazuko Ineno | ... | Akiko Hiraga | |
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| Daijiro Harada | ... | Wada | |
| Taeko Shinbashi | ... | Chiyoko | |
| Ejko Sokutai | ... | Toshiko | |
| Etsushi Takahashi | ... | Jun Tsuji | |
| Masako Yagi | ... | Yasuko | |
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Eros plus massacre
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202 min | 165 min (theatrical version)
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This one, plus Oshima's Koshikei (Death by Hanging, 1968), Matsumoto's Bara no Soretsu (Funeral Parade of Roses, 1969), Shinoda's Shinjû: Ten no amijima (Double Suicide, 1969) and Terayama's Den'en ni shisu (Pastoral : to Die in the Country, 1974), are maybe the great accomplishments of the Japanese New Wave. Here, Yoshida starts the last political trilogy about Japanese Past and Present (Eros plus Massacre, Heroic Purgatory and Coup D'etat) using a distinctive aesthetics proving that his Cinema contains some sort of a Metamorfosical ethic.
In fact, the movie builds an omnipresent dialectic between spectator and characters. History and Symbolic Representation. According to Pascal BONITZER, the "plus" of the tittle is a metonymy for the movie relation and revelation: "You must play too, because you can't dominate it. You must attach, dis-attach, and transform one and another: «Eros» and «Massacre». The spectator is the local of application. The spectator is the plus (+)."