Yoshihiro Katô

男にツキをもたらす“あげまん”の女と彼女に関わる男たちとの人間模様を描いたコメディ・ドラマ。捨て子だったナヨコは芸者の置屋にあずけられ、やがて僧侶・多聞院と結婚する。多聞院の位はめきめきと高くなっていくが、しばらくして多聞院は病死。その後、ナヨコが出合った銀行員・鈴木主水もどんどん出世していく。「彼女と恋仲に落ちる男は運気が上昇する」といった噂が巷で広がりつつある中、彼女の“あげまん”ぶりに政界の黒幕である大倉善武も目を付けていた…。

After the Expo ’70 Destruction Joint-Struggle Group disbanded, Katō released Brahmin (Burāmin, 1971-76).

The White Hare of Inaba is a film directed by Katō Yoshihiro, a central member of Zero Jigen, with cinematography by the filmmaker Ōe Masanori. Drawing on the Japanese myth of the white hare of Inaba, it presents a white hare (i.e. woman) leaping across waters full of ferocious sharks (i.e. male-dominated society), presenting a vision for a new era while capturing on film the joy of human beings’ inherent Eros and a new mode of “family” that breaks free of feudalistic social constraints.

An electrifying journey into the nether regions of the late-‘60s Tokyo underground. A loose adaptation of Oedipus Rex in which a gay son kills his mother and sleeps with his father.

The story of a sexy girl with a passion for attracting men and counting the money she entices from them with her body.

A young man reaches adolescence and escapes the nunnery where he survived a tortured upbringing; the world outside suddenly seems even more frightening than before.

A documentary of an avant-garde theatre performance, presents an orgiastic rite of sex, degradation, and bloody sacrifice, performed by Zero-Jigen.