Violated Angels

Violated Angels
Directed by Kōji Wakamatsu
Produced by Kōji Wakamatsu
Written by Masao Adachi
Juro Kara
Kōji Wakamatsu
Starring Juro Kara
Reiko Koyanagi
Miki Hayashi
Music by Koji Takamura
Cinematography Hideo Itoh
Edited by Fumio Tomita
Distributed by Wakamatsu Productions
Release dates
  • March 1967
Running time
 56 minutes
Country Japan
Language Japanese

Violated Angels (犯された白衣 Okasareta Hakui) is a film made by controversial Japanese director Kōji Wakamatsu in 1967. Wakamatsu's most famous film,[1] it is based on the mass murder spree of Richard Speck in 1966.[2][3]

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, there is lots of sexuality and nudity. However most of the actual murders take place off screen.

Cast

Production

The film was shot in just three days, probably much of it improvised and because of the low budget, many of the actresses were not professionals.[4]

Criticism

Like many films of this nature, Violated Angels was called anti-feminist and misogynistic by some critics. 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."

Notes

  1. ↑ Weisser, Thomas; Yuko Mihara Weisser (1998). Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: The Sex Films. Miami: Vital Books : Asian Cult Cinema Publications. p. 499. ISBN 1-889288-52-7.
  2. ↑ Weisser, p.101.
  3. ↑ Sharp, Jasper (2008). Behind the pink curtain: The complete history of Japanese sex cinema,. UK: FAB Press. p. 91. ISBN 1-903254-54-X.
  4. ↑ Sharp, p. 86

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