Executive Producer
Eros y Masacre es la biografía del rebelde socialista de principios del siglo XX Sakae Osugi, y de las tres mujeres que compartieron su vida: Hori Yasuko, su mujer; su segunda amante, la celosa Itsuko Masaoka, una militante feminista; y Noe Ito, su tercera amante, una importante activista social y novelista. Paralelamente a la historia de Osugi, la película sigue las aventuras sub rumbo de dos estudiantes radicales de los 60: la ninfómana Eiko y el impotente y pirómano Wada, explorando teorías políticas e ideas sobre el amor libre mantenidas por Osugi. Fantasean sobre la Era Taisho, y Yoshida alterna y mezcla continuamente la línea entre la fantasía y la realidad hasta que las dos líneas argumentales se entremezclan. Yoshida, como su contemporáneo Godard, acepta que una película es un artificio y juega con el espacio y el tiempo.
Producer
A spontaneous romance blooms between Kawamura, a professor touring Europe, and Naoko, a married woman living in Paris, scarred by the Nagasaki atomic bombings. The two protagonists travel around Europe trying to find themselves.
Production Assistant
Subu makes pornographic films. He sees nothing wrong with it. They are an aid to a repressed society, and he uses the money to support his landlady, Haru, and her family. From time to time, Haru shares her bed with Subu, though she believes her dead husband, reincarnated as a carp, disapproves. Director Shohei Imamura has always delighted in the kinky exploits of lowlifes, and in this 1966 classic, he finds subversive humor in the bizarre dynamics of Haru, her Oedipal son, and her daughter, the true object of her pornographer-boyfriend’s obsession. Imamura’s comic treatment of such taboos as voyeurism and incest sparked controversy when the film was released, but The Pornographers has outlasted its critics, and now seems frankly ahead of its time.
