Created on June 24th, 2008 by KamuiX
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I was so impressed after watching Koji Wakamatsu’s Go, Go Second Time Virgin (review) that I’ve really made a point to seek out more of his work as well as read up on him as a director. Firstly, the man was a workhorse, much in the vein of Takashi Miike, making well over 35 films a decade in the 60s and 70s (including a dizzying 20 between 1963 and 1965!). He was also firmly entrenched in making films on his terms and in his own way, going so far as bailing on a lucrative contract with Japanese studio Nikkatsu when they handled his first foray into the Pink genre poorly, due to fear of retaliation from the government. So he decided to self-finance his films, creating his own Wakamatsu Studios, and The Embryo Hunts in Secret was its first production. Wakamatsu obviously knew what was good for him creatively, because more than just having a cool title, The Embryo Hunts in Secret is a claustrophobic nightmare that regardless of being his first foray into independently produced cinema is just as effective and assured as his later work.
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