TOKYO – Koji Wakamatsu, the prolific and pioneering Japanese cult helmer known for his work in the pink-film adult genre, died on Wednesday from injuries sustained when he was hit by a taxi in the ...

TOKYO (AP) – Japanese director Koji Wakamatsu, who ruthlessly challenged authority with the grotesque and sexual, has died after a traffic accident this month. He was 76. His production company said ...

Very few young men who are imprisoned for gang activities become film directors. Very few truly radical directors have found a wide audience. Koji Wakamatsu, then, has a distinctive place in the ...

Human nature's dark side is the menacing midwife to the stillbirth of '60s idealism in the initially challenging and ultimately riveting "United Red Army." Human nature’s dark side is the menacing ...

Kōji Wakamatsu (若松孝二 Wakamatsu Kōji, 1 April 1936 – 17 October 2012) was a Japanese film director who directed such pinku eiga films as Ecstasy of the Angels (天使の恍惚 Tenshi no Kōkotsu, 1972) and Go, Go ...

Mark the 40th anniversary of ’68 once more with Kôji Wakamatsu’s grueling, engrossing three-hour United Red Army. The movie’s hectic first hour uses newsreel footage, scored by Jim O’Rourke’s ongoing ...

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Hengameh Panahi’s Paris-based Celluloid Dreams has acquired international rights to cult movies by Koji Wakamatsu, the bad boy of Japan’s ’60s New Wave whose latest film, “The Millennial Rapture” ...

BUSAN (AFP) ― Asian Filmmaker of the Year Koji Wakamatsu has said a lack of government support for young directors in the region is stifling artistic freedom. “Only commercial films are being ...