GO, GO SECOND TIME VIRGIN
(Yuke yuke nidome no shojo)
Japan, 1969, 66 min.
Original version with Portuguese subtitles.
A teenage girl is raped by a gang on the roof of a building while a shy boy silently witnesses the scene. The following day, the girl asks him to kill her. Based on this apparently simple plot that Wakamatsu produces a film full of a nihilist poetry, as touching as despairing. His pessimistic vision of a drifting Japan, which is threatened by wanton violence and young people’s disillusion, is told in a cold and detached way, thus increasing tenfold the impact of the striking sequences, the climax being a totally perverted debauchery. Shot in four days on the roof of the building where his production company is set, and given rhythm by a heterogeneous soundtrack (from psychedelic rock to free jazz), Go, Go Second Time Virgin is a movie as fascinating as frightening.
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Japan, 1969, 66 min.
Original version with Portuguese subtitles.
A teenage girl is raped by a gang on the roof of a building while a shy boy silently witnesses the scene. The following day, the girl asks him to kill her. Based on this apparently simple plot that Wakamatsu produces a film full of a nihilist poetry, as touching as despairing. His pessimistic vision of a drifting Japan, which is threatened by wanton violence and young people’s disillusion, is told in a cold and detached way, thus increasing tenfold the impact of the striking sequences, the climax being a totally perverted debauchery. Shot in four days on the roof of the building where his production company is set, and given rhythm by a heterogeneous soundtrack (from psychedelic rock to free jazz), Go, Go Second Time Virgin is a movie as fascinating as frightening.
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