"Erotic films are an important camp of 'heterochromatic films', and erotic films that can be called 'heterochromatic films' are usually different from other erotic films.
They explore the most subtle corners of human nature, the darkest attributes..." Regardless of the motivation, there are not a few directors who make films that satisfy people's curiosity and pure thrill-seeking, but there are not many erotic film directors who can make feelings or even humanistic colors, who have a high artistic standard, and can be called masters.
The ten directors we have selected for you are not only Takaji Wakamatsu and Shuji Terayama, who are known as the four erotic directors of the Japanese New Wave, as well as the Italian director Dindo Barras, known as the "Emperor of Erotic Cinema", and the French feminist director Catherine Brea.
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【Dindo Barras】
Masterpieces: "Tyrannosaur Caligula", "Lady Katie", "Wings of Desire", "Black Angel"
Tindo Barras's work follows the Impressionist style: the tendency is not to present a vast and boundless landscape, but to show the landscape and the surrounding features and fragments of objects through the pan and zoom of the lens, thus imitating the observer's actual visual experience of events and providing a fast pace that the film does not expect. He often uses a method similar to that of a tv multicam, operating at least three cameras at the same time, each focusing on something different. There are many other directors whose personal trademarks pervade his filmography, starting with 1975's "A History of Nazi Absurdity", where mirrors play an important role in set design, and sometimes he even starts a paragraph with Mirror Shot as much as possible, and then pans to reflected movements, bringing out a sense of disorientation. His erotic film productions, especially Wings of Desire, Miranda, and The Seduction of the Young Woman, often highlight women's hips and armpits, almost reaching the point of blindly worshipping these particular physical features.
【Koji Wakamatsu】
Masterpieces: "Forever Virgin", "Naked Bullet", "Biography of Love Affair" At first glance, Wakamatsu Takaji seems to be more suitable for living in the shadowy underground world of cinema, which is best depicted as a Japanese underground movie, and this stage has witnessed the emergence of more "heterochromatic (rebellious)" geniuses like comets crossing the sky, from shuji Terayama to Toshio Matsumoto to Masao Adachi and Yamato Yazhu. There is no doubt that Hakamatsu is one of the most successful directors, not only in terms of production — he has made more than a hundred films — but also in terms of impact. He produces films that are belittled and despised, and from violent pink films to "documentary" killer films, he always brings surprising, heartfelt social, psychological, and political backgrounds to almost all films.
【Shuji Terayama】
Representative works: "Shanghai Alien Prostitution Hall", "Grass Labyrinth", "Goodbye Box Boat" Famous Japanese poet, critic, film director, representative of avant-garde drama. The drama masterpieces "Grass Labyrinth" and "Madman Education". Shuji Terayama is similar to the Italian film prodigy Pasolini, who is both a poet, critic and film director, and a representative of avant-garde theater. Shuji Terayama loves theater and puts his main passion into film. In the early 1970s, japan's small theater activities reached their peak, and Shuji Terayama's Louza Theater Laboratory was one of them. He died of liver disease in 1983 at the age of 47.
【Keio Ishii】
Masterpieces: "The Complete Works of Edogawa Rampage: Horror strange human world", "Lust Labyrinth" Ishii Ishii is the only outlier among independent directors, who can shoot in the studio system for decades by cleverly playing with flower guns, where he buys his time to shoot the films he wants to make, although there are occasional mediocre and stale works that fail, but more to integrate his anti-traditional feelings and visual distinctive characteristics into any film he makes. He was also a trailblazer, incorporating the erotic/grotesque traditions of nineteenth-century Kabuki into a series of Grand Guignol-style films of the 1960s and 1970s.
【Kiyoshun Suzuki】
Representative works: "The Youth of the Beast", "The Door of the Flesh", "The Legend of the Spring Woman" Suzuki Kiyoshi is responsible for the production of this series of works, the story content is mostly the formulaic bridge section of the gangster vendetta, inheriting the "hard-boiled" style of Hollywood in the 30s and 40s, but with bright colors, the plot is more exaggerated, not logical, and even a little absurd, there is a kind of "stateless, contentless nonsense". Soon, Suzuki Kiyoshi established his own unique style, and was named "Heterochromatic Director", and successively made classic gangster films and erotic B-grade films such as "Killer Branding", "Tokyo Wanderer", "Flesh's Gate", "Tattoo Generation", "Carmen of Hanoi", "Youth of the Beast", "Violent Elegy" and so on.
【Takashi Miike】
Representative works: "Visitor Q", "Skin Love" studied at the Yokohama Radio and Film Academy (Japan Film School). In 1991, Takashi Miike filmed his first video film, Storm! Mini Patrol" was followed by more than a dozen video films based on gangster novels and outlier comics, gaining enough experience and popularity for his future entry into the film industry. Unlike other cult filmmakers, Takashi Miike has a greater film mission. He also manipulated the future of many genres of Japanese cinema outside of cult films. Although he is not an author filmmaker, although he has not yet received authoritative recognition. However, in the 1990s, when Japan's local commercial films were on the verge of falling, Takashi Miike's emergence injected a tonic into the Japanese film industry, and he shifted the attention of Japanese audiences to local films, making everyone confident in the films of his hometown again. Not only is he a box office guarantee, he also has a talent for speed. In the only thirteen years since his debut, he has completed the shooting of more than sixty film and television works. Such a prolific speed and crazy energy cannot but be called a miracle in Japan and even in the world.
[Just Jack King]
Masterpieces: "Emmanuelle", "O's Story" Justin JackKin, a French director, is famous for filming the sensational "Emmanuelle". The subsequent "The Story of Lady O" and "Madame Chatterley's Lover" made him the first person to adapt a banned book into a movie. Known as the erotic film of Emperor Caesar. And Emmanu has become a legend in film history, has been remade countless times, and has become a cult-like genre film. The success of the film set off a boom in the Western SOFTCORE, which came to be known as EURO CHIC. From his debut film "Emmanuel" in 1974, Justinkin directed his last film, Yun Du Niang, and directed a total of 8 feature films and a TV series in 10 years. He resolutely left the film industry, and then only made cameo appearances in the filming of a few documentaries. Justus claimed that although Ayman made him famous, the work was not the film he was most satisfied with, because he did not have the right to actually control the film at that time. On the contrary, the mediocre response of "THE LAST ROMANTICLOVER" and "Yun Du Niang" are his most satisfactory works. "Yun Du Niang" now seems to have no highlights except for its own definition of a movie, and some plots are even very childish and ridiculous. After filming Yun Duniang, he resolutely left the film circle, when he was physically and mentally exhausted as he said, and he was alone. After getting married, he and his wife continued to work artistically, and their focus has shifted to photography, sculpture, and painting. A large number of artwork images will be seen on the official website named after their husband and wife.
【Valerian Borovchik】
Masterpieces: "The Story of Immorality", "The Beast" The famous heterochromatic film director Valerian Borovczyk, was a well-known painter in his youth, and his paintings won the Polish National Award. In the early sixties, he went to France and began to contact the film industry, mainly engaged in the design and production of animation films and film posters, and was a well-known animation director. His first feature film was Lonely Island Love, released in 1968. This film, which was quite influenced by the French New Wave, with its distinct picture style and strange and bold love, was widely concerned by French audiences at that time. In 1974, Walerian's landmark erotic film "The Story of Immorality" was released, which consisted of four QS short films depicting the first reward of sex, the inducement of sex, the extremism of sex, and the evil of sex. The film has a unique style, beautiful pictures and a concise plot. No matter how much it compares with the works of any film master in this genre, it is not inferior.
【Catherine Brea】
Representative works: "Romance", "Sister Erotics", "Hell's Anatomy" Catherine Brea, a famous French female director. Brea is a well-known contemporary stalwart director, sometimes considered the first to think about gender relations from the perspective of a real woman, and some people say that Brea "authorized" pornographic films. Brea said: "My films only have the resentment and desire of women and not the psychology of men. She allows women's bodies and desires to speak, elevating the thinking of sex to a philosophical level like never before.
【Oshima Nagisa】
Masterpieces: "The Kingdom of the Senses", "The Undead of Love" Nagisa Oshima, a representative of Japanese "New Wave" films. His films have a unique personality, the early and middle films have a clear avant-garde color, almost all of his works have anti-traditional, anti-system concepts to varying degrees, the main characters in his films can be more or less called "anti" heroes, as for his independent production ideas and authorship attitude since the establishment of the "Creation Society" in the early 60s, he is completely separated from the studio work style of most Japanese filmmakers. This is a samurai without a monarch, a ronin of the movie world, who with his own Bushido spirit carved the artistic life of "chrysanthemum and sword".
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