Sex Game

Having participated in student protests himself, Adachi Masao revisited his own university a few years later to film this fiction feature from behind the barricades of a real-life student occupation. A female student activist is raped on campus by three youths. However, when one of the boys falls in love with her, she decides to invite him to join her on an ‘experiment’ to pursue the true meaning of radicalism. Incorporating documentary shots of student protests and on-street performances, the film taps into the zeitgeist of 1960s Japan and features actors from the Situation Theatre and Ankoku Butoh, leading Japanese avant-garde theatre and dance troupes. Adachi’s controversial fourth 'pink' film with Wakamatsu Productions brings together sex and radical politics as two forms of expression that can intertwine in unexpected ways.