Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974

When his first wife, the outspoken feminist Miyuki Takeda, announced that she was leaving him in order to find herself, Kazuo Hara began this radical documentary as a way both to maintain their complex relationship and to make sense of it. Assisted by his new partner, Sachiko Kobayashi, Hara is granted shockingly intimate access to Takeda’s wayward journey toward liberation, as she explores her sexuality, becomes a single mother, and grows increasingly disenchanted with traditional social structures. As complicated and uncompromising as Takeda herself, Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974 explodes the boundaries between subject and filmmaker to portray a woman willing to risk everything to live on her own terms.