1974: Fifty Years Later / A Wife To Be Sacrificed & Castle Of Sand

Support our Patreon: www.patreon.com/thepinksmoke 1974 was a
landmark year for film, a convergence of exciting international
cinema and the original voices of New Hollywood that still
resonates 50 years later. In our new series we invite a different
guest for each episode to choose a 1974 movie to talk about,
ranging from giant blockbusters to minor cult curios and everything
else in between. The early 70's was a particularly transitional
period for Japanese cinema in which major stars and directors found
themselves shut out by the studios while the "Pinku eiga" era, in
which celluloid sex and violence ran rampant, was on the rise.
Surviving this shift in the landscape, director Yoshitaro Nomura,
leading man Tetsuro Tamba and legendary screenwriter Shinobu
Hashimoto collaborated on the police procedural The Castle of Sand.
On the other end of the spectrum was audacious auteur Masaru Konuma
and his muse Naomi Tani who in 1974 teamed up for two movies
including the BDSM melodrama Wife to Be Sacrificed, featuring
"perhaps the most beautifully photographed flogging scene ever."
Join us for this bizarre double feature programmed by Daniel
Castro, writer and co-founder of the Colombian online film
criticism portal Filmigrana, in which we discuss the state of
Japanese cinema in the 70's, the pushing of boundaries versus the
tugging of the heart, and the thin line between art and
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