Extreme Private Eros: Love Song (極私的エロス 恋歌 1974, Gokushiteki erosu: Renka 1974), Kazuo Hara, 1974
In 1972, Miyuki tells her exlover Kazuo that shes going to Okinawa with their son. Kazuo decides to film her. He narrates his visits to her there: first while her flatmate is Sugako, a woman Miyuki is attracted to; then, while she works at a bar and is with Paul, an AfricanAmerican soldier. Once, Kazuo brings his girlfriend, Sachiko. We see Miyuki with her son, with other bar girls, and with Sachiko. Miyuki, pregnant, returns to Tokyo and delivers a mixedrace child on her own with Kazuo and Sachiko filming. She joins a womens commune, talks about possibilities, enjoys motherhood, and is uninterested in a traditional family. Does the filmmaker have a point of view
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