At The Movie Sleuth, the Gutter’s own Michelle Kisner writes about Kazuo Hara’s Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974 (Japan, 1974). “In his autobiography Camera Obtrusa, Kazuo Hara speaks candidly about his obsession with pulling out and filming the most intimate parts of a person. He is not interested in romanticizing his subjects; he wants to find the deepest aspects of their inner emotions. 

Extreme Private Eros encapsulates all of his views on romance, fear, love, heartbreak, joy, and confusion. Hara was dating a headstrong woman named Miyuki Takeda when, out of the blue, after having a child with him, Miyuki decides she wants to leave him and move to Okinawa. Instead of trying to stop her, Hara follows her and films her new relationships; one with a woman and another with a black serviceman.”

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