''a.k.a.'' ''Contraceptive Revolution'' is a
1967
Events
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Japanese ''
pink film'' directed by
Masao Adachi for
Kōji Wakamatsu
was a Japanese film director who directed such ''pinku eiga'' films as and . He also produced Nagisa Ōshima's controversial film ''In the Realm of the Senses'' (1976). He has been called "the most important director to emerge in the pink film ...
's production studio.
Synopsis
The insane gynaecologist, Dr. Marukido Sadao (
Marquis de Sade), theorizes that a woman is unable to become pregnant if she is writhing in intense pain during intercourse. He sets about testing this new method of birth control by torturing women during sex.
Cast
* Mikio Terajima () as Dr. Marquis de Sade (Marukido Sadao - )
* Kozue Kashima () as Mitsuko Marukido
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Atsushi Yamatoya
was a Japanese film director, screenwriter and actor. His son is a fellow screenwriter and race horse owner .
Life and career
Yamatoya was born in Horonaicho, Mikasa, Hokkaido and raised in Tokyo. He graduated from the First Department of Liter ...
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* Kuniko Masuda ()
* Hachirō Tobita ()
* Hatsuo Yamaya () as Saburō Kyōtani
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Kōji Wakamatsu
was a Japanese film director who directed such ''pinku eiga'' films as and . He also produced Nagisa Ōshima's controversial film ''In the Realm of the Senses'' (1976). He has been called "the most important director to emerge in the pink film ...
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* Shigeomi Satō () as Blue film actor
Background and critical appraisal
Masao Adachi filmed ''Birth Control Revolution'' for
Kōji Wakamatsu
was a Japanese film director who directed such ''pinku eiga'' films as and . He also produced Nagisa Ōshima's controversial film ''In the Realm of the Senses'' (1976). He has been called "the most important director to emerge in the pink film ...
's Wakamatsu Productions and it was released theatrically in Japan by Nihon Cinema on February 21, 1967.
Adachi used the character of the crazy gynaecologist, Marukido Sadao—a Japanese pun on "Marquis de Sade"—in his first ''pink film'', ''Abortion'' (1966).
He used the name in one or two of his film scripts directed by
Kōji Wakamatsu
was a Japanese film director who directed such ''pinku eiga'' films as and . He also produced Nagisa Ōshima's controversial film ''In the Realm of the Senses'' (1976). He has been called "the most important director to emerge in the pink film ...
.
According to writer on Japanese cinema, Roland Domenig, these "mad gynaecologist" films, as well as Wakamatsu's "embryo" or "return to the womb" films such as ''
The Embryo Hunts in Secret'' (1966), represent a re-imagining and parody of the "birth control" films which lured in audiences with titillating marketing strategies during the 1950s.
notes that despite the main character's "silly name", the film is actually a quite grim "twisted softcore S & M film". The review warns off viewers who are not comfortable with sadism as entertainment, in the style of many ''pink films''.
In their ''Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: The Sex Films'', the Weissers also note that it is a dark film, and "one of those excursions into sado-erotic fare that makes Western audiences cringe".
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