SING A SONG OF SEX (NC16) by OSHIMA Nagisa - Japanese Film Festival Singapore 2010

SING A SONG OF SEX / 日本春歌考

1967, 103 min, colour, 35mm, Japanese with English subtitles, NC16
Directed by OSHIMA Nagisa / 大島 渚
Cast: ARAKI Ichiro, YOSHIDA Hideko
Print Source -- JAPAN FOUNDATION
TRAILER

Despite flights of comedy, sexual fantasy, youthful yearning, karaoke and hootenannies, Sing a Song of Sex offers an intent, penetrating portrait of a generation confronting its new freedoms and its inability to act on them.

A group of provincial students arrives in Tokyo to take university entrance exams. Disillusioned and nihilistic, they spend their time singing dirty songs and fantasizing about strangling a rich girl. Set on a politically charged day -- the Founder's Day holiday, reinstated in 1967 after the American Occupation had banned it -- amid gently falling snow, this tender, crushingly sad examination of the alienation of Japanese youth suggests that solidarity is illusionary, and that political action will always be trumped or undone by sexual desire. The portrait of Otake, the students' mentor who teaches them sex songs, which he says express the despair of the oppressed, is movingly ambiguous. The film's final sequences are among Oshima's most disturbing.

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