http://evilmonito.com/2009/11/09/the-films-of-koji-wakamatsu/ Issue No. 24 Wed, 17 Mar 2010 05:52:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://evilmonito.com/2009/11/09/the-films-of-koji-wakamatsu/comment-page-1/#comment-8259 United Red Army | Evil Monito Thu, 03 Dec 2009 17:32:33 +0000 http://evilmonito.com/?p=30808#comment-8259 [...] Koji Wakamatsu, the father of Japan’s pinku eiga genre, pays tribute to the fiery rhetoric and violent history of the United Red Army in his 2007 film of the same name. Wakamatsu has long been a critic of Japan’s militarist past and America’s militarist present. The film is equally meant to be subversive and acerbic in its tone. With a score by Jim O’Rourke, the film was produced and distributed entirely by Wakamatsu himself. [...] [...] Koji Wakamatsu, the father of Japan’s pinku eiga genre, pays tribute to the fiery rhetoric and violent history of the United Red Army in his 2007 film of the same name. Wakamatsu has long been a critic of Japan’s militarist past and America’s militarist present. The film is equally meant to be subversive and acerbic in its tone. With a score by Jim O’Rourke, the film was produced and distributed entirely by Wakamatsu himself. [...]

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