With over one hundred films to his name, the ultra-prolific and provocative producer-director Koji Wakamatsu (1936-2012) began as a contract director for Nikkatsu Studios. Eventually, he would quit the studio to form his own company, Wakamatsu Pro. Wakamatsu’s subsequent independent pink films (pinku eiga) of the late 1960s and 1970s were extremely low-budget, yet aesthetically daring works concerned with sex and extreme violence mixed with political commentary. A close associate of Nagisa Oshima and Masao Adachi, Wakamatsu remained committed to radical politics and aesthetics throughout his entire career. His iconoclastic cinema unceasingly challenged the Japanese status quo while also interrogating the nature of ideologically motivated political movements themselves.