Koji Wakamatsu Filmography

Occupation:: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

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Green Mind, Metal Bats

Actors: Pistol Takehara, Masanobu Ando, Maki Sakai, Susumu Terajima, Koji Wakamatsu

2007
United Red Army

Crew: Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Akie Namiki, Arata, Takaki Uda, Soran Tamoto, Maki Sakai

Synopsis: In a stark depiction of the dissatisfaction that followed the demise of 60's idealism, United Red Army follows the story of the titular leftwing Japanese terrorist group that came together in 1972 as two pre-existing groups merged. Interspersed with large amounts of archival footage and employing Read More

2007
Pink Ribbon

Synopsis: Documentary filmmaker Kenjiro Fujii takes a look at the history of a distinctly Japanese brand of softcore pornography in this extensive examination of the "pinku eiga" genre. For more than 40 years, so-called "pink" films have served as both a key source of revenue for the Japanese film industry Read More

2004
Cycling Chronicles: Landscapes the Boy Saw

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Tasuku Emoto, Fuwa Mansaku, Ichiro Hariu

2004
Asu Naki Machikado

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Noted filmmaker Koji Wakamatsu -- who gained notoriety in the 1960s for such Marxist infused soft core films as Go Go Be a Virgin a Second Time and Violated Women in White -- spins this hardboiled crime thriller. By day, Tetsuji (Ken Kaneko) works at a machinist shop making screws; by night, he's Read More

1997
Endless Waltz

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Koji Wakamatsu, who in the past has directed such pungently titled exploitation flicks as Go Go Be a Virgin a Second Time and Violated Women in White, spins this biopic about jazz saxophonist Kaoru Abe (Ko Machida) and his wife, noted writer Izumi Suzuki (Reona Hirota). A sort of Sid and Nancy for Read More

1995
Ware ni Utsu Yoi Ari

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The Big Chill meets Stray Dog in this action-packed flick directed by pink eiga auteur Koji Wakamatsu. The film centers on a former '60s radical (Yoshio Harada) turned bar owner in Tokyo's sleazy red-light district, Kabukicho. At the film's outset, he is throwing a final bash before he closes his Read More

1990
Sukurappu: Aru Ai No Monogatari

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Longtime studio director Koji Wakamatsu (Okasareta Ryakui) released this notorious and controversial soft-core melodrama under his own Wakamatsu imprimatur. Shoujo M (translated "Girl M") stars as a 14-year old girl who sleeps with both of her male roommates, a porno writer and a college student Read More

1984
Mizu No Nai Puuru

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Yuya Uchida, Reiko Nakamura, Yumiko Fujita

Synopsis: A married man who has been driven to the edge by a boring job, a talkative wife, unbearable children, and their cramped living quarters, becomes inspired when he envisions a way to end this oppressiveness yet still keep all the amenities that come with a family and home. He gets some chloroform Read More

1982
Ecstasy of the Angels

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Maverick auteur Koji Wakamatsu once again marries softcore porn with radical politics with this trippy tale about a member of a militant group coming apart at the seams as it plans its latest strike against society. The members of the group, who all go by code names based on the days of the week Read More

1972
Go, Go Second Time Virgin

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Prolific Japanese filmmaker Koji Wakamatsu's Go, Go Second Time Virgin tells the tale of two Japanese teens brought together by sexual violence, revenge, and rebellion. A girl (Mimi Kozakura) is forcibly carried to a rooftop and gang-raped, as a boy of similar age (Michio Akiyama) stands to the Read More

1969
Embryo

Crew: Director

Actors: Hatsuo Yamaya

Synopsis: This sado-masochistic film deals with the extra-marital activities of a disturbed man. He finds a female, ties her up, whips her, cuts her with razor blades. He refuses to have a child with his wife, and spends his free time with his willing mistress. She soon tires of his sadistic games. Grabbing Read More

1968
Nikutai No Yokkyu

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Prolific pinku eiga filmmaker Koji Wakamatsu directed this tawdry softcore melodrama, which nonetheless attracted some attention because of its sex scenes, shot in color during a time when most Japanese erotica was filmed in black-and-white. The simple story of a romance, an affair, and the Read More

1968
Nihon Boko Ankokushi Bogyakuma

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Fresh off the box-office success of Okasareta Hakui, an eroticized dramatization of the Richard Speck case, director Koji Wakamatsu turned his attention to another real-life criminal, Yoshio Kodaira, the rapist who terrorized Tokyo in the post-WWII period. Renamed Marqui de Sadao here, and played Read More

1967
The Love Robots

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: In this Japanese sci-fi opus, young girls are kidnapped off the streets by aliens and brainwashed into becoming mindless robots who will make love or kill on demand. A detective whose sister is a victim relentlessly pursues those responsible, despite being thrown off the police force for his Read More

1965
Kabe No Nakano Himegoto

Crew: Director

Synopsis: A 16-year-old student with sex on his mind looks at magazines of nude women instead of his school books in this lurid, low-budget mystery. He watches a married woman through a telescope when she has an affair while her husband is away. After the testosterone-charged teen fails to rape his sister Read More

1965