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Eclipse Series 49: Five Radical Documentaries by Kazuo Hara and Sachiko Kobayashi Blu-Ray (US Import)
Criterion

Pre-sale - Release date: 25.08.2026

Original title: Goodbye CP / Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974 / The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On / A Dedicated Life / Sennan Asbestos Disaster

Year: 1972 - 2016
Country: Japan
Region code: A
Content: Blu-Ray
EAN: 715515338912

Image: 1.33:1, 1.55:1, 1.78:1 (1080p)

HDR: -

Audio: Japanese

Subtitles: English

Age rating: Not Rated

Genre: Documentary

Cast: various

Director: Kazuo Hara, Sachiko Kobayashi


Synopsis:

Shocking, confrontational, and made with white-hot fury, these radical documentaries—directed by Kazuo Hara and produced by his wife and longtime creative partner, Sachiko Kobayashi—give voice to the outsiders and iconoclasts who wage war against the conformism of modern Japanese society. From a woman willing to risk everything on her journey toward personal and sexual liberation (Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974) to a man whose quest to expose Japanese wartime atrocities borders on madness (The Emperor’s Naked Army Marches On), the unforgettable subjects of these films are invited to be collaborators in Hara and Kobayashi’s process, resulting in works of unmatched power and immediacy.

Extras:

• An essay by film scholar Markus Nornes