Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974

These days, we’re used to a documentarian being an integral part of their own documentary. But Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974 got there decades before the likes of Nick Broomfield or Michael Moore. Here, Kazuo Hara turns his camera on himself and his relationships and charts everything he sees. As an idea of what to expect, look at each of the words in the title – it is extreme, very private etc etc… and it all takes place in 1974. Very shaky, very handheld, very confrontational and quite possibly not all of it entirely unstaged, the film is essentially a chronicle of film-maker Hara’s relationship with a bar girl called Miyuki Takeda. … Read more