Closed Vagina
Genres
Overview
Adachi's follow-up to Bowl using the figure of a woman suffering from an unusual sexual aliment has often been taken as a controversial allegory for the political stalemate of the Leftist student movement after their impressive wave of massive fiery protests failed to defeat the neo-imperialist Japan-US Security Treaty. The ritualistic solemnity of the charged sexual scenes contribute to the oneiric qualities of Closed Vagina which Adachi would later insist was an open work, not meant to deliver any kind of deliberate political message. - Harvard Film Archive
Details
Budget
$0
Revenue
$0
Runtime
56 min
Release Date
1963-11-03
Status
Released
Original Language
Japanese
Vote Count
4
Vote Average
9
Hiroshi Takeda
Kyôko Kimura
村岡久美子
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