Hatsukoi: Jigoku-hen (1968) aka Nanami: The Inferno of First Love
Directed by Susumu Hani
Writing credits: Susumu Hani, Shuji Terayama
Runtime: 108 min
Country: Japan
Language: Japanese
Subs: Unknown...
Color: Black and White
imdb: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061754/
Pure Hypnosis.
An insecure guy falls in love with a young nude model.But his past sexual abuse hinders him of loving inhibitedly. He meets a little girl in the park instead... The story isn't that linear and that's why the freely linked episodes of this film just takes you on a shaky underwater rollercoaster ride. Beautiful camera-shots, excellent editing, great music, great acting...
This sordid Japanese drama is also known under the more appropriate title Nanami: Inferno of First Love. The story begins with Shun (Akia Takahashi), a shy 17-year-old boy, taking pretty young Nanami (Kuniko Ishii) to a hotel room. We are primed for a garden-variety "sexual awakening" scene. Instead, Shun and Nanami spend the night talking about their lives. Shun, an orphan blighted by a miserable childhood, now has a dead-end job; his only pleasure is to go to the park and play harmlessly with a little girl of his acquaintance. Nanami had come to the Big City in search of work, but found she could only secure employment as a nude photographer's model. Later on, Shun is arrested when his attentions to the little girl in the park is misinterpreted; he is told by his psychiatrist that he should develop a healthy relationship with a girl his own age. Meanwhile, Nanami's "agents" have gotten her involved in explicit S and M photographic work. When Shun arrives at Nanami's home for a date, he is confronted by the men responsible for her humiliating photo shoots. They chase him into the street, where he is hit by a car and killed—directly in front of the hotel where Nanami is awaiting him. — Hal Erickson
Hani Susumu started his filmmaking career at the major publishing house Iwanami. The publisher created its own film unit for producing documentaries in order to exploit the burgeoning market for PR and education films. Curiously enough, the leader of the unit was remarkably open to experimentation, and many of the young filmmakers jumped on the opportunity to tamper with the conventions of the documentary. These included the likes of Higashi Yôichi, Kuroki Kazuo, Tsuchimoto Noriaki, Ogawa Shinsuke, Suzuki Tatsuo, Okumura Yûji (cameraman for this film), Tamura Masaki, Haneda Sumiko and Hani Susumu. All of them and most of the other innovative directors and cinematographers at the company, including Hani, left Iwanami for independent documentary and feature production. It is probably no exaggeration to say that their impact on 1960s Japanese cinema has yet to be adequately accounted for.
Hatsukoi.Jigokuhen.mpg 
(the first time i saw his rare film appeared on net, Susumu Hani, one of the most acclaimied japanese independent filmmaker of 60s.)
Otras copias
- VHSRip VOSI (AVI; subtítulos en inglés incrustados)
DVDRip VOSE
Finally I can see this great film.
