Eros + Massacre

Eros + Massacre
Directed byYoshishige Yoshida
Written byMasahiro Yamada
Yoshishige Yoshida
Produced byYoshishige Yoshida
Shinji Soshizaki
StarringMariko Okada
Toshiyuki Hosokawa
Yūko Kusunoki
Kazuko Ineno
CinematographyMotokichi Hasegawa
Music byToshi Ichiyanagi
Production
company
Gendai Eigasha
Distributed byArt Theatre Guild
Release dates
  • 15 October 1969 (1969-10-15) (France)
  • 14 March 1970 (1970-03-14) (Japan)
Running time
167 mins. (Japanese theatrical cut)
216 mins. (original cut)
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese

Eros + Massacre (エロス+虐殺, Erosu purasu gyakusatsu) is a 1969 Japanese experimental drama film directed by Yoshishige Yoshida, who wrote it in cooperation with Masahiro Yamada. The film is a biography of anarchist Sakae Ōsugi, who was murdered by the Japanese military police in 1923 (see Amakasu Incident). It is the first film in a loose trilogy, followed by Heroic Purgatory (1970) and Coup d'État (1973).