Kandagawa Pervert Wars
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| Directed by | Kiyoshi Kurosawa |
| Written by | Kiyoshi Kurosawa |
| Starring | Usagi Aso |
| Edited by | Junichi Kikuchi |
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| Distributed by | Million Film |
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Running time | 60 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
Kandagawa Pervert Wars (神田川淫乱戦争, Kandagawa Inran Sensō) is a 1983 Japanese pink film directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, who would later go on to a career directing mainstream horror films.
Synopsis[edit]
A young girl, Akiko, in a tenement block in Tokyo's Kandagawa area, uses a telescope to spy on her neighbors in between lovemaking sessions with her boyfriend. When she discovers what seems to be an incestuous relationship between a mother and son, she decides, with her boyfriend and her friend Masami, to rescue the son from this predicament and introduce him to a "healthy sex life".
Cast[edit]
- Usagi Asō (麻生うさぎ) as Akiko
- Makoto Yoshino / Makoto Mino (美野美琴) as Masami
- Houen Kishino (岸野萌圓) as the Son
- Miiko Sawaki / Mimi Sawaki (沢木美伊子) as the Mother
- Tatsuya Mori as Ryō (Akiko's Boyfriend)
- Masayuki Suo as the Apartment Manager
Background[edit]
Kiyoshi Kurosawa was one of a number of young Japanese filmmakers, several associated with Nikkatsu, who belonged to a production organization called the Director's Company which had been founded in 1982. Through the influence of fellow Director's Company member Banmei Takahashi, Kiyoshi was offered a chance to direct a pink film for Million Film. This film became Kandagawa Pervert Wars with its references to Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window, inventive directorial devices, playful mannerisms and in-joke allusions to Kurosawa's favorite western films.[1] Jasper Sharp suggests that the studio was less than delighted with the result and Million shelved his second pink film effort College Girl: Shameful Seminar as not sexy enough. Kurosawa was able to buy the footage and reworked it into the 1985 non-pink film The Excitement of the Do-Re-Mi-Fa Girl.[1]
The cast and staff of Kandagawa Pervert Wars present a kaleidoscope of figures who would become an important part of filmmaking in Japan in the 1990s and later.[1] These include Assistant Director Toshiyuki Mizutani, Second Assistant Director Masayuki Suo who also had a minor role in the film, Third Assistant Director Akihiko Shiota, and actor Tatsuya Mori.[1][2]
Release[edit]
Kandagawa Pervert Wars was released theatrically in Japan in August 1983 by Million Film[2] and published as a DVD on April 26, 2004, by AceDeuce (販売元:エースデュース).[3]
Reception[edit]
Thomas and Yuko Mihara Weisser praised the "witty dialogue and very likable characters" and gave the film a 3 star rating (out of four).[4]
Further reading[edit]
- Weisser, Thomas; Yuko Mihara Weisser (1998). Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: The Sex Films. Miami: Vital Books : Asian Cult Cinema Publications. p. 217. ISBN 1-889288-52-7.
- Sharp, Jasper (2008). Behind the Pink Curtain: The Complete History of Japanese Sex Cinema. Guildford: FAB Press. pp. 238, 350. ISBN 978-1-903254-54-7.
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d Sharp, Jasper (2008). Behind the Pink Curtain: The Complete History of Japanese Sex Cinema. Guildford: FAB Press. p. 238. ISBN 978-1-903254-54-7.
- ^ a b 神田川淫乱戦争 (in Japanese). Japanese Movie Database. Retrieved 2011-10-04.
- ^ "エースデュース（ミリオンDVD）" (in Japanese). P.G. Web Site. Retrieved 2011-10-04.
- ^ Weisser, Thomas; Yuko Mihara Weisser (1998). Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: The Sex Films. Miami: Vital Books : Asian Cult Cinema Publications. p. 217. ISBN 1-889288-52-7.
External links[edit]
- Kandagawa Pervert Wars at AllMovie
- Kandagawa Pervert Wars at IMDb
- Kandagawa Pervert Wars at the Japanese Movie Database (in Japanese)
- 神田川淫乱戦争(1983) (in Japanese). AllCinema.
