Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974

1974 [JAPANESE]

Documentary

Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 91% · 2 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 91%
IMDb Rating 7.1/10 10 433 433

Plot summary

When his wife, the outspoken feminist Miyuki Takeda, announced that she was leaving him in order to find herself, Kazuo Hara began this raw, intensely personal documentary as a way to both maintain a connection to the woman he still cared for and to make sense of their complex relationship. Granted at times shockingly intimate access to Miyuki’s personal life, Hara follows her wayward journey toward liberation as she explores her sexuality with both men and women, becomes pregnant and raises a family as a single mother, and grows increasingly disenchanted with the constraints of traditional social structures.

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Kazuo Hara as Self
Miyuki Takeda as Self / former lover of Hara
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857.26 MB
960*720
Japanese 2.0
NR
23.976 fps
1 hr 33 min
Seeds 1
1.55 GB
1440*1080
Japanese 2.0
NR
23.976 fps
1 hr 33 min
Seeds 5

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by mr-db

best nouvelle vague of the world

inspiring documentary that shows one of a kind Japanese woman. featuring an alternative side of early seventies in japan this movie reveals the beginning of cultural and sexual new conflict of modern Asia. director follow his ex for three years or so through the islands. see her bisexual and interracial relationships with a neutral acceptance and even cries showing a fragility rare in Japanese manhood. walk around contacting dancers, strippers and bar girls of Okinawa. take the risk of putting his new wife in contact with the intelligent, brilliant, helpful former wife. and shows an out of focus amazing scene of baby being born without any help. beautiful, subtle, honest and strong. and the director was one of the kids on National Kid TV series! fantastic...
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Reviewed by uwmasianfilm-1 8 / 10

A good portrait of a brave woman

Very much a good watch. Hara's ex-girlfriend Takeda Miyuki is an incredible subject matter as well. Her headstrong ways, while sometimes seeming arrogant, are impressive considering the time and culture in which she was living. Her bisexual relationships, not to mention her interracial child she births, are very brave. She is obviously a very independent. so independent in fact, that she births her half black half Japanese baby all by herself while Hara watches on from his camera and another woman sits next her watching while holding a microphone. While she has this incredible can-do attitude she doesn't make much of it, which makes it all the more impressive.

While one could nitpick at the film for its technical shortcomings-- out of sync sound and blurry shots-- yet in many ways these things lend the film its authentic feeling. It is akin to watching an old homemade film, except the subject-person is more interesting than your family is likely to be.

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