Eros Plus Massacre (1969)

Original title

エロス＋虐殺

Directed by

Yoshishige Yoshida

Genre

drama film, biographical film

Country

Japan

Runtime

3h 36m

Rating

7.2 of 10 from 50 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The film follows two timelines. One shows a pair of students in the 1960s researching the life of anarchist Sakae Osugi. The other portrays Osugi and his involvement in radical politics and free love before his murder in 1923.

experimentalnon-linearcerebralpolitically chargedmelancholicslow-burnintensephilosophical

What happens

Eros + Massacre (Japanese: エロス＋虐殺, Hepburn: Erosu purasu gyakusatsu) is a 1969 Japanese experimental drama film directed by Yoshishige Yoshida, who wrote it in cooperation with Masahiro Yamada. The film is a biography of anarchist Sakae Ōsugi, who was murdered by the Japanese military police in 1923 (see Amakasu Incident). It is the first film in a loose trilogy, followed by Heroic Purgatory (1970) and Coup d'État (1973). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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