Violated Angels
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| Violated Angels | |
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| Directed by | Koji Wakamatsu |
| Produced by | Koji Wakamatsu |
| Written by | Masao Adachi Juro Kara Koji Wakamatsu |
| Starring | Juro Kara Miki Hayashi Michiko Sakamoto |
| Music by | Koji Takamura |
| Cinematography | Hideo Itoh |
| Editing by | Fumio Tomita |
| Distributed by | Wakamatsu Productions |
| Release date(s) |  March, 1967 |
| Running time | 56 min. |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
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Violated Angels (犯された白衣 Okasareta Hakui?) is a film made by controversial Japanese director Koji Wakamatsu in 1967. Wakamatsu's most famous film,[1] it is based on the mass murder spree of Richard Speck in 1966.[2]
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[edit] Plot
A young man breaks into a nurses' rooming house and one-by-one kills off the nurses therein. In the tradition of Wakamatsu's other Pinku eiga(Pink Films), there is lots of sexuality and nudity. However most of the actual murders take place off screen.
[edit] Criticism
Like many films of this nature, Violated Angels was called anti-feminist and misogynistic. In Film As A Subversive Art, a book on underground cinema, Amos Vogel praises Wakamatsu's artistic talent, yet pans the film for its "...anti-feminist sadism which is not based on any ideological explanation and finally contributes misanthropic flavour to his work."
[edit] Notes
- ^ Weisser, Thomas; Yuko Mihara Weisser (1998). Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: The Sex Films. Miami: Vital Books : Asian Cult Cinema Publications, p.499.. ISBN 1-88928-852-7.
- ^ Weisser, p.101.
[edit] References
- Firsching, Robert. Okasareta Ryakui[sic] (English). All Movie Guide. Retrieved on 2007-10-02.
- Fuchs, Christian [1996] (2002). Bad Blood. Creation Books.
- 犯された白衣 (Okasareta hakui) (Japanese). Japanese Movie Database. Retrieved on 2007-10-02.
- Okasareta hakui at the Internet Movie Database
- VIOLATED ANGELS (English). Complete Index to World Film. Retrieved on 2007-10-02.
- Violated Angels (French). pinku.cho-yaba.com. Retrieved on 2007-10-17.
- Vogel, Amos [1974] (2005). Film As A Subversive Art. Art Pub Inc..
