Gokushiteki Erosu, Koiuta 1974 / Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974

Kazuo Hara
Gokushiteki Erosu, Koiuta 1974 / Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974

Photographs: Kazuo Hara

Publisher: Shisso Production

96 pages

Year: 1975

Price: 250 €

Comments: Stapled softcover, 18 x 25,7 cm. Texts in Japanese. Some wears on the front cover and back cover, a tear on the top of spine. Inside is very good condition.

Kazuo HARA is a documentary filmmaker who won the Caligari Prize at the Berlinale and the Prix du Cinéma du Réel for "The Emperor's Army Advances" in 1988.

He was born in 1945 in Ube, Yamaguchi Prefecture. He was initially interested in photography and became a student at the Tokyo College of Photography. But after his encounter with severely mentally and physically handicapped children, he became oriented and devoted to this subject, he even started to work in the rehabilitation school for the disabled.

This book is a scenario for the intimate documentary « Extreme Private Eros ». Hara paints a provocative and offbeat portrait of his ex, Miyuki Takeda. It follows her in her new relationships in Okinawa, her experience giving birth to a mixed-race child, and more broadly, her life as a declared feminist in Japan in the 70s.