with Kamichika) and renamed her character to Itsuko Masaoka. Even after this, Kamichika was still adamant to not let Yoshida release the film, and ended up suing him for invasion of privacy. Yoshida would end up winning the case and released the film. It wouldn't be until 2002 (25 years after Kamichika's death) that Yoshida's original cut would be released to the public. However, due to there only existing one heavily damaged film print, the cut that was released is said to be missing around nine minutes of footage, all of which is considered lost. Cast Mariko Okada as Noe Itō/Mako Toshiyuki Hosokawa as Sakae Ōsugi Yuko Kusunoki as Itsuko Masaoka Etsushi Takahashi as Jun Tsuji Toshiko Ii as Eiko Sokutai Daijirō Harada as Kiwamu Wada Reception Allan Fish, writer for Wonders in the Dark, considered Eros + Massacre to be the greatest film ever made. He writes: "Upon watching this film for the first time, even in the shorter 166m version that was for a long time the only one available anywhere with English subtitles, one is left drained, a quite literal mental wreck. Even those versed in the seminal works of Yoshida’s contemporaries, Oshima and Imamura, will be unprepared for this. That his work still remains unavailable to the English speaking world, barely mentioned in any major film guide or tome, is one of the greatest oversights of accepted film reference literature. If he only made this one film, Yoshida would be recognised as a giant." David Desser named his book, Eros plus massacre: an introduction to the Japanese new wave cinema, after the film. See also Amakasu Incident References Sources External links 1969 films 1960s biographical films 1960s avant-garde and experimental films Japanese biographical films Japanese avant-garde and experimental films Films about anarchism Anarchism in Japan Films directed by Yoshishige Yoshida Films set in the 1910s Films set in the 1920s Films set in the Taishō period Films set in the 1960s 1960s Japanese films