Kandagawa Pervert Wars
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| Kandagawa Pervert Wars | |
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| Directed by | Kiyoshi Kurosawa |
| Written by | Kiyoshi Kurosawa |
| Starring | Usagi Aso |
| Edited by | Junichi Kikuchi |
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| Distributed by | Million Film |
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Running time | 60 minutes |
| Country | Japan |
| Language | Japanese |
Kandagawa Pervert Wars (Japanese: 神田川淫乱戦争, Hepburn: 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.
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 discovers what seems to be an incestuous relationship between a mother and son, she decides, with her friend Masami, to rescue the son from this predicament and introduce him to a "healthy sex life".
Cast
- Usagi Asō (麻生うさぎ) as Akiko
- Makoto Yoshino / Makoto Mino (美野美琴) as Masami
- Houen Kishino (岸野萌圓) as the Son
- Miiko Sawaki / Mimi Sawaki (沢木美伊子) as the Mother
- Tatsuya Mori as Ryō (Akiko's Boyfriend)
- Masayuki Suo as the Apartment Manager
Background
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 filmmaking in Japan in the 1990s and later.[1] These include 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]
Release
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).[3]
Reception
Thomas and Yuko Mihara Weisser praised the "witty dialogue and very likable characters" and gave the film a 3 star rating (out of four).[4]