Ecstasy of the Angels

Maverick auteur Koji Wakamatsu once again marries softcore porn with radical politics with this trippy tale about a member of a militant group coming apart at the seams as it plans its latest strike against society. The members of the group, who all go by code names based on the days of the week, ...more

Having made such comparatively linear works as Go, Go Second Time Virgin and Violated Women in White, Koji Wakamatsu pushes the limits of narrative and experimental filmmaking with this exploitation freak out. This go around, Wakamatsu evokes the cloistered life and dry-mouthed paranoia of radical terrorists on the lam while fusing it with a dizzying assault of violent sex and nudity. In one scene, a longhaired thug plunges a pencil into the thigh of the female lead. The image is as grizzly as ...more