Bye, Bye Love (1974)

The film is an unusual love story in which sexuality and gender conflicts between love and the body are intertwined with a stylish couple on the run, influenced by pop art and the American New Cinema. A love story. Utamaro falls in love at first sight with the enigmatic Guico, shoots and kills his foreign patron, and then a foreign patron and runs away with Guico. Guided by the melodies of Bach What will happen to their love, guided by the melody of Bach? With a theme that anticipated the times, this film announced the birth of the Japanese New Cinema. A masterpiece of independent filmmaking, it declared the birth of the New Cinema in Japan.