Kōji Wakamatsu Movies

Biopic about jazz saxophonist Kaoru Abe and his wife, noted writer Izumi Suzuki.

The film follows Nanba, a shunned outcast who doesn’t have a girlfriend, any money or prospects, a turnaround from his glory days in high...

A militant revolutionary group is torn apart by betrayal as its members descend into paranoia and sexual decadence.

In 1923 a Japanese comes to Munich and immediately falls in love with a street artist with a red hat, without knowing her past is. She turns to the...

On November 25th 1970, a man committed ritual suicide inside the Tokyo headquarters of the Japanese Ministry of Defence, leaving behind a legacy of...

From an apartment belonging to a single woman, two detectives spy on sex-obsessed radical.

A young man is unable to save a young woman from being assaulted, despite her having helped him out of a difficult situation in the past. Wracked...

A Japanese teenager bicycles aimlessly through the countryside after killing his mother.

Kayo, who is famous for her beauty, own a bar in a port town. The establishment is always crowded with customers infatuated with her. For the past...

A critique of the Japanese family, seen here as militaristic, absurdly incestuous and patriarchal. Nihilistic destruction by the young ones seems to...

A woman who has just missed her suicide and a couple which has just left its political movement meet on a beach...

A high school student preparing for his university entrance exams is discontent with various social inequities and is determined to take vengeance on...

Three violent and disillusioned students share an apartment. Their search for a place in society is through porn, fights, rape, and voyeurism. Not...

A detective investigating a serial rapist discovers that he and the perpetrator come from the same lineage of depraved individuals, a genealogy of...

Documentary filmmaker Kenjiro Fujii takes a look at the history of a distinctly Japanese brand of softcore pornography in this extensive examination...

Dark, cynical Japanese epic brought to U.S. in a dubbed version by shlockmeister Harry Novak. Still, this gory, sexy epic is made with style and...

Sennen no yuraku is set in a small community called “Roji” where Kenji Nakagami—one of the most famous novelists in...

Shirō raids the office of the organization that attacked his lover, wreaking havoc and escaping with a stolen handgun. In retaliation, the...

A masterpiece of militant cinema of 1968, filmed on the actual barricades of Adachi's very own Nihon University during the period of social...