Eros + Massacre

Eros + Massacre

7.5 / Rating 46 votes 1969
Genre: Drama
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan

Two interwoven stories. The first is a biography of anarchist Sakae Osugi which follows his relationship with three women in the 1920s. The second centers on two 1960s students researching Osugi's theories.

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Eros + Massacre is a 1969 Japanese experimental drama film directed by Yoshishige Yoshida, who wrote it in cooperation with Masahiro Yamada. The film is a biography of anarchist Sakae Ōsugi, who was murdered by the Japanese military police in 1923. It is the first film in a loose trilogy, followed by Heroic Purgatory (1970) and Coup d'État (1973).