From Kazuo Hara, director of The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On, this intensely personal film is a detached, radical examination of the interplay between the director and subject. In order to maintain contact with his former partner, Miyuki, Hara shot this raw, intimate film as a way to both maintain a connection with her and to make sense of their complex relationship.
Shocking and uncompromising, the legendary Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974 explodes the boundaries of documentary filmmaking to create a shockingly candid portrait of an independent woman living on her own terms, and Hara’s own struggle to accept her rejection.
BLU-RAY SPECIAL FEATURES:
• Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974 (Gokushiteki Erosu: Renka 1974) presented complete and uncut from a new HD transfer of original materials, approved by director Kazuo Hara.
• A new filmed introduction to the film by writer and critic Chris Fujiwara.
• Interview with Kazuo Hara: The director in conversation at the 2018 International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam.
• Trailer.
• Booklet with new writing by author and critic Tony Rayns, and an essay by film writer Ela Bittencourt.
• New and improved English subtitle translation.
• Region Free (A/B/C) Blu-ray.
• World premiere on Blu-ray.