Violated Angels is the first Wakamatsu film I've had the pleasure of seeing, and seeing as though it's akin to getting hit over the head with a 2x4, I intend to see (and post) as many films of his as I can find.
Violated Angels is weird...hauntingly weird. The readmore can do more justice to the film than me anything I can blabber about, but I will tell you it's based on the Richard Speck murders of the Filipino nursing students in Chicago in 1966. Wakamatsu's approach to this film harkens back to traditional Japanese theater...on acid. The main character (the murderer) has his share of psychic breaks throughout the film, but I don't know who is stranger: him or "the Conch". My pick would be "the Conch".
This is an extremely tough find (custom English subs by Polifem at ADC), so I'm not getting into your business, but this is a MUST download...that is, if you're into Japanese cinema.
P.S.: This is not Pinku. Violated Angels a work of art by a master director.
From Nick Rucka at Subway Cinema News:
Divisive, exploitative, cruel, vengeful, erotic, political, provocative, avant-garde — Koji Wakamatsu is all these things, and a ridiculous amount more. A country bumpkin who wandered his way through the Yakuza and into one of the most prolific directing careers in Japan, Wakamatsu has created an unsurpassed, massive filmography of unique and disobedient works. While inextricably connected to the pinku eiga (Japanese soft-core film), Wakamatsu himself has always insisted that his films were something more. Certainly they contain copious amounts of sex and nudity, but this often was a cover for leftist political diatribes decrying Japan’s imperial inclinations, and its subservience to US foreign affairs on Asian politics. Now in his seventies and having produced more than 200 films in his career, Wakamatsu and his uncompromising worldview show no signs of slowing.
[...]One of Koji Wakamatsu’s more infamous productions (and inspired by the real-life case of Richard Speck’s 1960s student nurse killing spree in Chicago,) Violated Angels is a compact celluloid acid trip into one man’s derangement as he kills a group of nurses and regresses to a child-like state. Acting more as a protest piece than Grand Guignol debauchery — although it strongly delivers the goods in that department, with shocking deaths filmed in lurid color by Hideo Ito (In The Realm of the Senses), and a bevy of ravaged beauties — the film draws a strong analogy between the man’s dehumanized actions and the Vietnam War protest movement going on concurrently with its production in 1967. Filmed Corman-style in less than one week in order to seize upon the wave of publicity wafting off of the Speck murders, this melancholy mini-masterpiece plunges the viewer headlong into ice-cold madness.
Technical Information:
Title: 犯された白衣/Violated Angels
Year: 1967
Country: Japan
Director: Koji Wakamatsu
Source: DVD5 Retail
DVD Format: PAL
Container: .iso + mds
Size: 3.01 GB
Length: 0:56:31
Programs used: SubRip, Subtitles Workshop, Maestro, PgcDemux, Muxman, VobBlanker, DvdSubEdit
Resolution: 720x576
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Video: MPEG2 @ ~6800 kb/s
Frame Rate: 25 fps
Audio: Japanese- Dolby AC3 Stereo @ 192 kb/s
Subtitles: French, English (custom)
Menu: Yes
Video: Untouched
DVD Extras: Preface by Marina de Van (in French)
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