Post by morrisondylanfan on Sept 17, 2019 2:39:47 GMT
Hi all,going in knowing nothing about the feature,I found it a fascinating hidden gem (it has no IMDb reviews.)
Note: I know the image feature nakedness but this is far from being a mere "Adult" flick.
Student Guerilla/ Jogakusei gerira (1969) 9
“All in all,this was a too small battle.”
Leaving film making behind in the 70’s to join the armed militant/terrorist organization the Japanese Red Army, writer/directing auteur Masao Adachi & cinematographer Hideo Ito ignite the school rebellion in a stark Japanese New Wave (JNW) stylisation,cutting the ground in raw black and white, trimmed by restrained wide-shots glimpsing the utter wilderness. Backed by a pitch-perfect unnerving, stray instruments score by Meikyu Sekai, Adachi carves the film with small splinters of colour lighting the battle that the girls want to win.
Stating near the end of the film that the battle was too small, the excellent screenplay by Adachi takes a clinical dissection on patriarchal insistence within leftist movements aimed at social disruption The pure revolutionary vision the girls have eventual is torn apart by male jocks looking to enjoy something hip,and the bruised egos of soldiers, (who the women have sex with in coldly shot scenes) who want to unleash their brittle masculinity on the students over a small battle.