Kazuo Hara (b. 1945), currently one of Japan's most respected and iconoclastic filmmakers, made a sensational debut in 1972 with his first film, Goodbye, CP, a documentary on a radical group of people with cerebral palsy. In his second film, Extremely Personal Eros: Love Song 1974, in his uncompromising documentary style, Hara follows his former wife and radical feminist, Miyuki Takeda, to Okinawa where she works at a bar catering to African-American servicemen. In the 1970s, bars near U.S. military bases in Okinawa were racially segregated and Takeda believed in solidarity with the oppressed black GIs. Meanwhile, Hara's collaborator, producer Sachiko Kobayashi, becomes involved in the relationship of Hara and Takeda both in love and filmmaking. Hara then follows Takeda returning to Tokyo and bearing her bi-racial baby in her Tokyo apartment, and Kobayashi's bearing a baby whom Hara fathered. This is an extraordinarily intimate portrayal of the ideology, philosophy, and lives of radicals in the Vietnam era, revolving around the postwar relationship of Japan, Okinawa, and the United States.-Kyoko Hirano