Kōji Wakamatsu

WAKAMATSU Koji (Japan, 1936-2012) was given the nickname 'king of pinku eiga', the specific Japanese genre of (soft) porn film. Wakamatsu started his own production company in the mid-1960s and at the start of his career directed about 20 pink films which also always had a political undertone. From the 1970s, his work became increasingly political. Wakamatsu was also active as a producer, for instance of In the Realm of the Senses (1976) by Oshima Nagisa, and he… (mehr)