Experimental/artsy Director Koji Wakamatsu takes the Japanese pinky violence film and mixes it up with a film-noir-ish gangster flick and comes up with an interesting genre-blending experience. While I coulda done with less artistic pretense and more straight forward sleazy violence, more typical in Japanese exploitation cinema at the time, this film offers up equals parts art-film style and low-brow spectacle which would probably appeal to fans of either. We switch from black & white to color intermittently, there's lots of Japanese nudity and you get the standard Yakuza antics. Like in most of these pink films women don't get treated very well but ultimately are shown to be stronger and smarter in most ways then their male oppressors which I think is an interesting commentary on Asian society in general. A good watch that you have to at least appreciate for it's blending of cinematic forms if not for the bondage and perky nipples on display.
NAKED BULLET (Kôji Wakamatsu, 1969) from Spectacle Theater on Vimeo.
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