Archive - 11th Five Flavours Film Festival
Lovers Are Wet
Film description
Katsu, an impulsive rebel, returns to his home town, hiding from yakuza. Even though the locals recognize him, he stubbornly refuses to reveal his identity and the dark secret from his past. He befriends the owner of the cinema where he starts working, and her three unusual friends. The behavior of the five of them challenges social norms. Their radical actions are balanced with austere, melancholic sea landscape, which enhances their emotional struggles.
A wild, oftentimes violent image of frustration, loneliness, and complex erotic relations, whose hypnotic frames became a part of the history of Japanese cinema. The nihilist narration and a disturbing portrait of the antihero bring to mind the poetics of the early films by Nagisa Oshima and other revolutionary filmmakers of the Japanese new wave.
One of the most renown Roman Porno titles, placed among 100 most important Japanese pictures of the 20th century by the prestigious film magazine Kinema Junpo.
Jagoda Murczyńska
Tatsumi Kumashiro
Born in 1927, died in 1995. He studied medicine, literature, and dreamed of becoming a writer. In the early 1950s, he became an assistant director in the Shochiku studio. He debuted two decades later, becoming one of the most important Japanese filmmakers of the 1970s, famous for his "wet" films (including "Woods Are Wet: Woman Hell," or "Sayuri Ichijo: Following Desire") made for the Nikkatsu studio he cooperated with for 17 years. In his work he openly ridiculed censorship and avoided trivial entertainment, taking up serious subjects, analyzing social relations and tensions between the sexes. For many years, he taught the history of western cinema and literature.
1968 A Thirsty Life / Kaburitsuki jinsei
1972 Wet Lips / Nureta kuchibiru
1974 Street of Joy / Akasen tamanoi: Nukeraremasu
1975 Wet Lust: Opening the Tulip / Nureta yokujo: Hirake! Chûrippu
1977 Painful Bliss Final Twist / Monzetsu!! Dondengaeshi
1979 A Woman with Red Hair / Akai kami no onna
1980 Path of the Beast / Shoujo shofu: Kemonomichi
1988 Love Bites Back / Kamu onna
1994 Like a Rolling Stone / Bo no kanashimi
