Virgo twice
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Virgo twice |
| Original title | ゆ け ゆ け 二度 目 の 処女 |
| Country of production | Japan |
| original language | Japanese |
| Publishing year | 1969 |
| length | 63 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Kōji Wakamatsu |
| script |
Masao Adachi , Kazuo Komizu |
| production | Kōji Wakamatsu |
| music | Meikyu Sekai |
| camera | Hideo Ito |
| cut | Kansuke Guryu |
| occupation | |
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Twice virgin ( Japanese ゆ け ゆ け 二度 目 の 処女 , Yuke Yuke Nidome no Shojo , Eng . "Go! Go! Second time virgin") is a Japanese social drama by director Kōji Wakamatsu from 1969 . Pink Eiga , produced outside the rigid Japanese studio system, is about two young people, victims of violent sex crimes, who take revenge on their tormentors and ultimately commit double suicide out of love .
The nihilistic sexploitation film moves between erotic and art films. With his experimental work, the mixing of socially critical issues with the help of sex and violence, Wakamatsu revolutionized Japanese cinema in the 1960s. Today he is considered to be one of the most outstanding directors of the Pink genre.
On July 16, 2010, the feature film was broadcast in a television premiere on the German / French cultural channel ARTE in the original language with German subtitles.
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One evening, the 17-year-old schoolgirl Poppo is raped by four criminal youths on the flat roof of a high-rise building. It is the second time that she has been forcibly forced to have sex. The gruesome crime is voyeuristically observed at close range by the seemingly powerless Tsukio . The caretaker's son, who suffers from disturbed sexuality, participates passively in the abuse.
The next morning the student soberly - in the presence of Tsukio - declares her second abuse. Although victim and voyeur have little to say to each other, they gradually become friends. A little later, the rapists return to the crime scene. Tsukio remains passive again, while Poppo desperately asks her tormentors to kill her, since a “poor” suicide is out of the question for her. Your wish goes unheard, another violent sex crime follows.
From then on, the student asks the shy Tsukio to put an end to her meaningless life. The young man promises to do so if she can give him a reason. In the following, the two tell each other about their eventful past. Orphan Poppo describes her family circumstances, while Tsukio, himself a victim of sexual assault, leads the girl to his bloody vengeance scene. There he killed the four people involved in his abuse with a knife. Poppo and Tsukio are now discovering similarities at the latest: Longing for death, both want to end their lives of hopelessness and humiliation.
At a late hour there is a momentous reunion on the roof of the skyscraper with the gang of young rowdies - Poppos rapists. At first it seems as if Poppo gives in to abuse again, until Tsukio gives up his self-imposed passivity and becomes a bloody avenger. In a real frenzy of blood, he kills the four culprits and three companions. Poppo repeatedly asks Tsukio to kill her, but he refuses. The film ends with the two jumping to their deaths.
background
Director Kōji Wakamatsu worked between 1963 and 1965 for the Japanese film production company Nikkatsu , for which he directed 20 exploitation films during this time. With his controversial film Stories Behind Walls ( 壁 の 中 の 秘 事 , Kabe no Naka no Himegoto ), the opening film of the 1965 Berlinale , Wakamatsu came into conflict with the government in the face of naked bodies, rape and voyeurism. In 1965 he broke with Nikkatsu due to a lack of support; Wakamatsu started his own production company. He subsequently produced a variety of avant-garde genre posts that mixed political messages with sex and extreme violence. Some critics rate the films of the time as "deliberate provocation".
His independently produced films of the late 1960s were often made for less than a million yen . Expensive studio recordings with artificial light are rare. Exterior shots and a reduction in the places of action dominate. Two times Jungfrau was filmed mainly on the roof of a seven-story house in four days. As a rule, the works are in black and white, although Wakamatsu occasionally enriched his works with color scenes in order to intensify a theatrical effect.
Reviews
The Lexicon of International Films praises the socially critical film for its " experimental visual language between melancholy and hallucination ". It is also written that the production casts a “ socially critical look into social abysses ” full of “ fear, hopelessness and despair ”.
Web links
- Twice Virgin in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Two virgins in the online film database
- Entry on arte.tv
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Virgo twice. Lexicon of International Films, accessed July 17, 2010 .
- ^ Patrick Macias in Ecstasy of the Angels: Tenchi no kokotsu . TokyoScope: The Japanese Cult Film Companion. 2001. San Francisco: Cadence Books. Page 180. ISBN 1-56931-681-3 .
- ↑ cf. Entry on arte.tv ( memento of the original from July 21, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed July 19, 2010
