Yuke yuke nidome no shojo

Plot synopsis:
Poppo, a teenage girl, is raped by four boys on the roof of a seven-story apartment building. She asks them to kill her, but they mock her and leave. Tsukio, a teenage boy, has been watching the rape passively. Over the course of a day and a night, Poppo and Tsukio begin a relationship, telling each other of their troubled past and philosophizing about their fate. Poppo describes an earlier rapes shown in flashback. In a color flashback, Tsukio tells of his own recent sexual abuse at the hands of a neighboring foursome, all of whom he has stabbed to death. Poppo repeatedly asks Tsukio to kill her, but he refuses.
When the gang returns and again rapes Poppo, Tsukio kills each of them and their three girlfriends. While he is doing this, Poppo follows him complaining that he refuses her request, yet is killing the gang. The story ends with Poppo and Tsukio both jumping off the apartment roof to their deaths.

Tags: revenge

Review:
In beautifully shot black and white with some gory color sequences this film takes you on a compelling, nihilistic trip through the claustrophobic existence of two teenagers living on the edge of society.
Koji Wakamtsu's "Go,Go Second Time Virgin" is a classic pinku eiga film.Wakamatsu was raised to be a farmer but made his move to the big city and tried his hand at being a gangster and a convict before he found his true calling as Japan's most notorious experimental movie director,who made over 30 films between 1963 and 1974,many of them too raw and disturbing to be shown in theaters but acclaimed at fine-film festivals."Go,Go Second Time Virgin" tells the story of of Poppo(Mimi Kozakura),a young girl raped(for the second time in her young life)by a gang of street ruffians one August night in Tokyo.Left bleeding on a rooftop,she survives the night and meets Tsukio(Michio Akiyama),a fellow teenager with problems of his own.Together they explore the darker side of life and sex,with Poppo's suicidal obsessions matching similar threads in Tsukio's unsuccessfully published book of poetry.The joy they find in each other inflames their rage at the unjust world around them,and their love engenders a tragic killing spree."Go,Go Second Time Virgin" is a beautifully shot film and the cinematography is brilliant.Most of the film is in gorgeous black-and-white,with a few tinted sequences and a full-color flashback to Tsukio's unfortunate orgy experience.So if you are a fan of Japanese art-house exploitation give this one a look.8 out of 10..
Amazingly bleak film, and quite shocking to watch.
A strangely jaunty, optimistic sounding title for such a grim and nihilistic movie though."If you tell me why you want to die, then I'll kill you""Really?" "Yes?" "It's because I'm so hopelessly unhappy in this life"(Bit of a rough quote there I'm afraid).
opens with a 17 year old girl being dragged to a rooftop and raped by a gang of thugs, whilst a boy of a similar age watches on expressionless.
Awkward conversation arises, and the girl reveals that this is the second time she's been raped.
I don't know what it is about the Japanese, but they seem to have a knack of producing the strangest and most disturbed movies in the world.
Takashi Miike might be shocking audiences and provoking walk outs now, but 32 years ago Koji Wakamatsu was producing movies that were at least as dysfunctional and disturbing.
It feels in many ways more 'film' like than most movies today...
the cinematography is all very photographic, and the way the interesting soundtrack is blended with the movie - definitely 'cinema as art'.
If nothing else, the stark black and white cinematography is gorgeous, and director Wakamatsu's use of music is masterful.
The director later went on to produce Oshima's In the Realm of the Senses, which, while certainly a good film, is far less daring and compelling as Go Go Second Time Virgin.
But this has got to be one of the most bizare,yet interesting films that has come out of japan in recent years.
unlike American teen angst films were you just have a bunch of dialog and crying this one has action and visual imagery that follows the characters though out the whole film the combination of both color and black and white film is a rare treat indeed..
Go Go Second Time Virgin is as surreal and strange as its title suggests it is.
Go Go Second Tim Virgin starts with a rape sequence and from there we focus on two teenagers; one of which being the girl that was raped.
The pair of them are depressed, and the girl insists that she wants to die and asks the boy to do it, but he refuses, preferring a different solution to the problem.
The film is stylishly shot; most of it is in black and white although certain sequences are portrayed in colour.
There's not a great deal of sleaze in the film - the rape scenes are not overly graphic and there's not a great deal of gore either.
I won't name this film as a favourite or anything like that, but it's an interesting little flick that is definitely worth seeing, and therefore comes recommended..
Not an easy and an art movie, Koji Wakamatsu's Go-Go Second Time Virgin' won't let you without a second see, because it's just amazing.
More than that (can you imagine) Go-Go Second Time Virgin' is a strange and beautiful combination Bunuel-Resnais-Antonioni in a Japanese manner.
It is true that the movie is violent, really violent, but physical violence is a indispensable element in Go-Go Second Time Virgin', especially when the same violence is not being followed for any single moment by Wakamatsu.
The TITLE signifies purity, and in the beginning, a 17 years old girl is gang raped on a roof, while a boy is watching without participating.
The boy remains there, right next to the raped girl till the morning, 8th of August, a warm and sunny one.
The girl gets up and, even though she wasn't a virgin, she still bleeded after the rape.
She bleeded for the second time, because she didn't lose her innocence, and directly comes the title, Go-Go Second Time Virgin'.
For the same reason the movie is build' on and around a ROOF, with many WHITE SHEETS in the 8th of August morning scene.
The girl is sad and she wants to die, and the boy, an anonymous poet, pretends that he does not understand why.
We go down the roof in a flat where the image turns for the last time from B/W (not a coincidence) into colour, this time, and there is a murder scene with four bodies and a lot of blood.
From this moment 'till the end, the movie turns into a not losing purity dilemma, and the climax is the night i'm-gonna-kill-you-dance, all WHITE SHEETS are gone and a misty morning on the 9th of August.
As for the set, the image and the shot, Tarkovsky's and Kieslowskyi's fans would be delighted seeing Go-Go Second Time Virgin' a '65 minutes everyday Masterpiece about trying, keeping and fighting for your own purity.
And so it goes, still camera and long takes, repetitious dialogue and pretentious poetry, the slow unfolding of terminal youth, sorry isolated kids playing out sex and death on what might as well be the roof of the world.
Referred to in the credits simply as girl and boy, Poppio and Tsukio find their obsessions entwine, find tenderness amidst cruelty but best of all for the viewer find expression as remarkably credible characters.
Films dealing with the darker side of youth seem eternally prone to sensationalism and that is present here, but for all the exploitation gears that this film moves through the characters are authentic, their inescapable thoughts, the bindings of determination, of society, of their own desperation, all is real, bleak to a wrenching degree but always unsettlingly real.
Director Koji Wakamatsu demonstrates mastery of his craft, exquisitely binding exploitation to art-house treatment, switching to colour for memory or grisly violence and deploying once or twice hand-held camera for shocking style as he pulls his actors inexorably to climax.
The film does slip into the realms of the unnecessary in using photographs of Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate, underlining the climatic violence and its riff on the then all over the papers Tate/Lo Bianco murders but it felt somewhat out of place to me.
Incredibly bleak pink film.
Personally i find "Second Time Virgin" more disturbing though.
Very minimalist film, almost entirely shot on a grimy rooftop, where a young woman gets raped repeatedly, mostly because after the first rape, she decides to STAY on the roof, to wait for someone to kill her or rape her again!
Effectively filmed in black and white, with some jarring color flashback scenes, this film can really get under the skin.
Many people die, and the casual way the deaths are filmed makes for a surreal and unpleasant mood.
Bleak "Day In The Life" Of Two Japanese Teenagers....
Koji Wakamatsu's GO, GO SECOND TIME VIRGIN is a dark tale of rape, revenge, teen-angst, depression, and feelings of solitude.
This is a strong film showing the inner-turmoil of two teenagers who've each had a rough life.Tsukio follows after a gang of guys who take a young girl to a rooftop to rape her.
He stands by and watches, and stays on the roof until the girl wakes up the next morning.
They eventually take revenge against the gang that raped her, and decide to take their own "destinies" into their own hands...Much like Wakamatsu's earlier film, THE EMBRYO HUNTS IN SECRET - G,GSTV is a pretty bleak film punctuated with poetic and strangely beautiful moments.
There are a few rape scenes and a little bit of splatter for the sleaze-heads out there (of which I am proudly one...) but this is not an overtly sleazy film.
Now as it happens, I was watching films when this was made, so even though I'm coming to it out of its context, I do know the Manson murders and some notion of where Japanese film and society were.
But the truth is that I cannot connect with this the way the filmmaker intended; I'm just too far removed in time and culture.I can guess from the outside: the nudity would have been shocking in the time and place; the dramatic devices more effective.
The depiction of society as fundamentally damaged is universal and reachable but not through the vehicles used here: the Japanese obsessions with virginal sex; the particular abstractions of Japanese comics; the Japanese tradition of suicide, essentially religious; the Japanese tradition of ritualized stage drama  the role that filmmakers played in Japanese society as challengers of culture that has no counterpart in the west.And then there's the dark side of zen, that violence heals.So how do I watch this?
And if I am pretending, do I go as far as pretend to be the audience the filmmaker is criticizing instead of being on the filmmaker's side?Do I watch it for historical value, looking for its place in the development of films that do affect me directly today?
But it seems a lot of layers to go through for something that was meant so simply.The story here is of a girl who defines herself as a virgin because she bleeds when gangraped.
We kill everyone we see, something underscored by photographs of a filmmaker (Polanski) and murdered wife (Sharon Tate).Ted's Evaluation -- 2 of 3: Has some interesting elements..
It is a mix of art-house and exploitation and it marries the two seamlessly.A girl, who is tired of life, begs a shy, troubled geek to kill her.
The soundtrack is minimal, the music sparingly employed at key moments.Wakamatsu has an original, anti-establishment perspective that makes his more personal films very intriguing and fresh..
His other exploits include getting high with Yoko Ono in a hotel room, getting banned from entering the USA because of radical political affiliations in his youth, producing Nagisa Oshima's controversial pinku film In the Realm of the Senses and, according to some rumors, even sending his daughters to a Palestine army camp to teach them discipline.Take everything written above, and take the title "Go, Go, Second Time Virgin" and just try to visualize what sort of a film this is.
A pinku Japanese New Wave exploitation art-house film shot on a shoestring budget in foru days, resorting to a single location like in other Wakamatsu films, in this case a building rooftop.
In the end - the movie is very nihilistic - you can't escape the rooftop and its wickedness, and the only way out is jumping off of it to your death.The title of the film is taken from one of the poems the heroine recites, and is a reference to how she bled after getting raped on the roof even if it weren't her first time.
For visual accompaniment, Wakamatsu focuses on white hanging sheets which disappear after the opening scene.
The film's bleak B&W look is also sometimes interrupted by a cyan-tinted flashbacks and, later, a full color violent flashback which manages to be incredibly unsettling despite the extra-fake blood effects and the amateurish acting.It's a short watch, spanning just over an hour in typical pinku fashion, but I'd say every minute of it is well-spent even if I have trouble understanding it.
It relies on poetry and jazz songs to give the story more depth, although Wakamatsu's intent is never made clear, right to the very end where the camera focuses on an children-aimed ad advertising not to sniff thinner.
There's also a scene where the titular girl, Poppo, speaks to the camera and yells "Fuck you!" after confessing that neither her nor her mother felt any pleasure while getting raped.
The scene has been read as Wakamatsu's attack on conventional plot points concerning rape in pinku films.One oddity in particular concerning this films is that it's tied to the Manson Family murders.
This movie for example ends with a quick-cut collage of violent manga extracts and pictures of Roman Polanski and his murdered wife Sharon Tate.
The film begins on August 8th, the same day as the Tate murders, and 3 women and 4 men are killed in the movie (same number as the Tate-LaBianca killings).And you know what else?
Mama, I'm Heading Off. Go, Go Second Time Virgin opens with the gang rape of a seventeen year old girl by four men.
With a slow Japanese acid rock tune playing in the background, the camera focuses on the face of the young girl while she is raped by each man.
This scene then goes to a flashback in sepia tones in which the viewer witnesses the first time the girl was gang raped.
Instead of fleeing the scene or calling the police, the girl remains on the rooftop and makes a shaky friendship with a boy, the son of the building's manager, who witnessed her rape.
Spending their time on the rooftop, the boy and girl engage in a conversation which basically consists of the girl telling the boy that she wants him to kill her.
However, the boy, of course, is reluctant to do so, but as time goes on the boy agrees to do so, and it seems that he might have some experience in the area of killing.Go, Go Second Time Virgin is a bizarre film by a director who broke many filmic taboos and directed films such as Blood Red from the Sun, The Wet Flower's Budding Eye, and Flesh Target Escape in a time in which Japan was producing one pink film after another, so where Miike can be viewed promulgator of extreme violence in Japanese film of today, Wakamatsu was pushing the envelope of eroticism over forty years ago during a time in which censorship was much stronger.
However, how does Go, Go Second Time Virgin rate as a film?
Upon my first watching of the film it seemed nothing more than a way to display the naked body of its lead actress as much as possible and upon my second viewing of this film it seemed as if Wakamatsu was trying to create a film that not only had erotic aspirations but was also trying to push the pink film to a new level of artistry.
However, for those who like the films of Suzuki Norifumi, the older films of Oshima Nagisa and Imamura Shohei, or maybe the fiction of Murakami Ryu Go, Go Second Time Virgin might be a good example of some of the sleazier films produced during the 1960s in Japan..
GO, GO SECOND TIME VIRGIN (Koji Wakamatsu, 1969) **1/2.
This one presents an even more depressing (and pointless) concept than THE EMBRYO: the film is basically a series of gang-rapes committed on a young girl by a mixed group of wastrels on the roof of an apartment block, separated only by scenes in which the girl is befriended by an unwilling (and possibly impotent) hanger-on where they recite poetry and sing songs as a means of coping with their strange predicament!
A couple of similarly violent reminiscences by each of these characters are effectively shown in color, as opposed to the stark monochrome photography of the main events.
Despite the abundant nudity on display (the girl is naked for most of the film's running time), the end result is distinctly unerotic; not surprisingly or, perhaps inevitably, the story resolves itself with bloodshed as the gang is butchered with a knife by the enigmatic boy, after which he and the girl leap off the roof to their death!!.
A rape and revenge movie that leaves the beaten path far behind, but there was no 'beaten path' in 1969, was there?
So, was this the first rape and revenge movie?
If it was, then it has its own added set of rules.Main characters Tsukio ('boy') and Poppo ('girl') have charm and charisma in spades, which can be crucial in any kind of exploitation film.
It is the end of an era in which pretty anything goes, but that never happens without consequences.This is a crazy, bloody, poetic, musical, haphazard trip taking place in, on and around an apartment building somewhere in (I assume) Tokyo mostly in black and white, and it might not be for everyone...10 out of 10 because 'Yuke yuke nidome no shojo' just does nothing wrong (well, if you want to split hairs: near the end I saw the shadows of the camera and crew a couple of times and the beach scene had a continuity goof in it)..
Bespectacled, effete young man watches a young girl get gang raped on top of an apartment building.
The girl claims it's the second time she's been raped.
A mysterious bond grows between them, and inviting her to his apartment, he reveals a little secret -- he's a psychotic mass murderer who's just murdered four people who forced him into an orgy!Seeing as they are both the victims of sexual abuse, the girl's attackers return to the roof of the apartment building.