Beautiful Mystery

Rating:
Summary: Amaze your friends!
Review: A real hoot!

This would make a great triple bill with Schrader's bio-pic "Mishima" and Mishima's own (approx. 1/2 hour) "Rite of Love and Death." All three of these works deal somewhat with Mishima's fatal sexual obsession with Seppuku as Ritual Theatre.

This one is a very funny all-male pink film, which evidently riled Japanese nationalists when it played successfully in theatres there. It's actually a well made and entertaining little curiosity that manages to be both fairly explicit (by American standards, anyway) and rather innocent at the same time.

Look for Ren Osugi - who can be seen in a lot of "real" movies like "Beat" Takeshi's "Hana-Bi" ("Fireworks") - as the militaristic homosexual-cult leader.

Rating:
Summary: Amaze your friends!
Review: A real hoot!

This would make a great triple bill with Schrader's bio-pic "Mishima" and Mishima's own (approx. 1/2 hour) "Rite of Love and Death." All three of these works deal somewhat with Mishima's fatal sexual obsession with Seppuku as Ritual Theatre.

This one is a very funny all-male pink film, which evidently riled Japanese nationalists when it played successfully in theatres there. It's actually a well made and entertaining little curiosity that manages to be both fairly explicit (by American standards, anyway) and rather innocent at the same time.

Look for Ren Osugi - who can be seen in a lot of "real" movies like "Beat" Takeshi's "Hana-Bi" ("Fireworks") - as the militaristic homosexual-cult leader.