| Kandagawa Pervert Wars | |
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| Directed by | Kiyoshi Kurosawa |
| Written by | Kiyoshi Kurosawa |
| Starring | Usagi Asō |
| Editing by | Junichi Kikuchi |
| Studio | Director's Company |
| Distributed by | Million Film |
| Release date(s) | August 1983 |
| 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.
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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 finds 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."
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 film making in Japan in the 1990s and later.[1] These include Chief 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]
Thomas and Yuko Mihara Weisser praise the "witty dialogue and very likable characters" and give the film a 3 star rating (out of four).[3]
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).[4]
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