Kichiku Dai Enkai is a 1997 Japanese film. It was written and directed by Kazuyoshi Kumakiri.

Story

In the year 1972, a small group of left-wing students are living at a dingy Tokyo

Tokyo

, ; officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan. Tokyo is the capital of Japan, the center of the Greater Tokyo Area, and the largest metropolitan area of Japan. It is the seat of the Japanese government and the Imperial Palace, and the home of the Japanese Imperial Family...

 apartment in the mountain village of Karuizawa in Nagano-ken, Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

. While the group leader, Aizawa waits to be released from prison, his promiscuous girlfriend, Masami is left in charge of the group. While waiting for Aizawa's release, Masami uses her overt sexuality and engages in promiscuity with the fellow students. As the days pass by, things take a tragic turn. Within a few days of his release, the group's leader soon commits hari-kiri. After learning of Aizawa's suicide, the shotgun

Shotgun

A shotgun is a firearm that is usually designed to be fired from the shoulder, which uses the energy of a fixed shell to fire a number of small spherical pellets called shot, or a solid projectile called a slug...

- toting Masami loses control and the group quickly falls into self-destruction, as sex

Sex

In biology, sex is a process of combining and mixing genetic traits, often resulting in the specialization of organisms into a male or female variety . Sexual reproduction involves combining specialized cells to form offspring that inherit traits from both parents...

, distrust

Distrust

Distrust is a formal way of not trusting any one party too much in a situation of grave risk or deep doubt. It is commonly expressed in civics as a division or balance of powers, or in politics as means of validating treaty terms. Systems based on distrust simply divide the responsibility so that...

, paranoia

Paranoia

Paranoia [] is a thought process believed to be heavily influenced by anxiety or fear, often to the point of irrationality and delusion. Paranoid thinking typically includes persecutory beliefs, or beliefs of conspiracy concerning a perceived threat towards oneself...

, and violence overtakes the group.

External links

• Giuseppe Sedia (October 2006), Interview with Kumakiri Kazuyoshi (Italian) at Asia Express.