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Sing a Song of Sex

1967 · 103 min

A restless, fragmented collage of youth, desire and provocation that feels both playful and unsettling.

Tagline
Youth Is Wasted On The Young.
Overview
Four sexually hungry high school students preparing for their university entrance exams meet up with an inebriated teacher singing bawdy drinking songs. This encounter sets them on a less than academic path.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • satiricalstrength 2 of 3
  • absurdstrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • whimsicalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • sexuality
  • obsession
  • identity
  • rebellion
  • coming-of-age
Places
  • big city
  • school
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
  • ensemble
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language strong
  • Violence mild
  • Sex strong
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror2
Humour5
Realism6
Romance3
Tension5
Darkness7
Complexity8
Emotional weight6

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
Nagisa Ōshima
Written by
Nagisa Ōshima, Tsutomu Tamura, Mamoru Sasaki, Toshio Tajima
Starring
Ichiro Araki, Jūzō Itami, Kōji Iwabuchi, Akiko Koyama, Kazuyoshi Kushida, Nobuko Miyamoto, Hideko Yoshida, Hiroko Masuda
Music
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Cinematography
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Runtime
103 min
Country
Japan
Languages
Japanese

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