Yoko Muto

A young student activist flees from Tokyo with his beautiful sister-in-law after he accidently shoots his brother, a policeman, during a squabble after a major political demonstration. As they attempt to suppress their guilt and the desire they feel for one another, they are haunted by visions of the murdered husband. (Jasper Sharp)

A critique of the Japanese family, seen here as militaristic, absurdly incestuous, and patriarchal. Nihilistic destruction by the young ones seems to be the only way out. This should be seen as Wakamatsu’s answer to Nagisa Oshima’s The Ceremony, made in the same year.