JAPANESE MOVIE: BYE BYE LOVE (1974)

Cross-posted with LA & OC Weirdo Music & Art Forum

Another film in the "WTF did I just see?" series

Date: Monday, November 24, 7:45 PM

Venue: Frida Cinema
305 E 4th St #100, Santa Ana, CA 92701
Phone: (714) 285-9422

Dinner 6:15 TBD

Tickets: $13 https://thefridacinema.org/movies/bye-bye-love-2/

Review: https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/8699-fujisawa-rediscovered-teshigahara-revisited

Trailer here

Director: Isao Fujisawa Run Time: 85 min. Release Year: 1974 Language: Japanese

Starring: Atsuko Ami, Enver Tenpai, Miyabi Ichijô, Ren Tamura, Yûzô Morita

November’s Hallucinations screening is Isao Fujisawa’s lost wonder Bye Bye Love!

Lost and nihilistic drifter Utamaro chances upon Giko, a femme shoplifter who immediately catches his eye. One thing leads to another: the couple soon find themselves on the lam for murder. This provides for a delightful pretext to explore notions of societal malaise, free love and gender fluidity in a rapidly evolving 1970s Japan, as both Utamaro and Giko begin to know each other on the road by way of a variety of surrealistic, psychedelic and frank sexual encounters.

Hosted by Polygon’s editor-in-chief Chris Plante, Hallucinations is a monthly event that spotlights movies that challenge our expectations of story, style, and “good taste”. We invite guests to bond over films that change what we expect from the medium, the world, and themselves. So come early, stay late, make friends, and watch something strange, surprising, or just shamelessly sick.