Crazy Love

(Kureiji rabu)

  • Introduction

    Miryam Sas is Chair of the Department of Film & Media, and a Professor of Film & Media and Comparative Literature at UC Berkeley.

featuring

Mitsutaka Ishii, Akaji Maro, Rikuro Miyai, Tetsuo Koyama,

A queer pop collage epic, Crazy Love reflects the revolutionary cosmopolitan zeitgeist of the late 1960s. Shooting in the Shinjuku area of Tokyo, director Michio Okabe (1937–2020) combines documentation of street performances by the group Zero Jigen (Zero Dimension) and other stars of Tokyo’s underground art scene with posters, newspaper clippings, and advertisements, all set to an intermittent “mixtape” of American hits and international pop and classical music, replete with references to current events, popular musicians, and movies. As the Queer East Festival noted, Okabe “himself appears onscreen, acting out roles, including James Bond. Challenging established social norms and codes of sexual behaviour, Crazy Love is a testament both to a liberated, experimental moment in art and film, and to an iconoclastic filmmaker.”

Kate MacKay
FILM DETAILS 
Language
  • Japanese
  • with English subtitles
Print Info
  • B&W/Color
  • Digital
  • 98 mins
Source
  • S.I.G.,Inc.

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