Birth Control Revolution

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Birth Control Revolution (????, Hinin Kakumei) a.k.a. Contraceptive Revolution is a 1967 Japanese pink film directed by Masao Adachi for K?ji Wakamatsu's production studio.

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Synopsis

The insane gynaecologist, Dr. Marukido Sadao (Marquis de Sade), theorizes that a woman is unable to become pregnant if she is writhing in intense pain during intercourse. He sets about testing this new method of birth control by torturing women during sex.

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Cast

• Mikio Terajima (????) as Dr. Marquis de Sade (Marukido Sadao - ?????)
• Kozue Kashima (?????) as Mitsuko Marukido
• Atsushi Yamatoya (????) as Nishimura
• Kuniko Masuda (????)
• Hachir? Tobita (????)
• Hatsuo Yamaya (????) as Sabur? Ky?tani
• K?ji Wakamatsu as Weekly magazine photographer
• Shigeomi Sat? (????) as Blue film actor

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Background and critical appraisal

Masao Adachi filmed Birth Control Revolution for K?ji Wakamatsu's Wakamatsu Productions and it was released theatrically in Japan by Nihon Cinema on February 21, 1967. Adachi used the character of the crazy gynaecologist, Marukido Sadao--a Japanese pun on "Marquis de Sade"--in his first pink film, Abortion (1966). He used the name in one or two of his film scripts directed by K?ji Wakamatsu. According to writer on Japanese cinema, Roland Domenig, these "mad gynaecologist" films, as well as Wakamatsu's "embryo" or "return to the womb" films such as The Embryo Hunts in Secret (1966), represent a re-imagining and parody of the "birth control" films which lured in audiences with titillating marketing strategies during the 1950s.

Allmovie notes that despite the main character's "silly name", the film is actually a quite grim "twisted softcore S & M film". The review warns off viewers who are not comfortable with sadism as entertainment, in the style of many pink films. In their Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: The Sex Films, the Weissers also note that it is a dark film, and "one of those excursions into sado-erotic fare that makes Western audiences cringe".

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Bibliography

English

• Cowie, Peter (editor) (1977). "Japan". World Filmography 1967. London: Tantivy Press. p. 359. ISBN 0-498-01565-3. CS1 maint: Extra text: authors list (link)
• Fentone, Steve (1998). "A Rip of the Flesh: The Japanese 'Pink Film' Cycle: Contraceptive Revolution". She; Japanese Sinema. 2 (11): 10. 
• Hinin Kakumei at AllMovie
• Hinin kakumei (1967) on IMDb
• "HININ KAKUMEI". Complete Index to World Film. Retrieved 2010-03-30. 
• Sharp, Jasper (2008). Behind the Pink Curtain: The Complete History of Japanese Sex Cinema. Guildford: FAB Press. pp. 99, 341. ISBN 978-1-903254-54-7. 
• Weisser, Thomas; Yuko Mihara Weisser (1998). Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: The Sex Films. Miami: Vital Books : Asian Cult Cinema Publications. p. 65. ISBN 1-889288-52-7. 

Japanese

• ????(1967) (in Japanese). allcinema.net. Retrieved 2010-03-30. 
• ???? (in Japanese). Japanese Cinema Database (Agency for Cultural Affairs). Retrieved 2010-03-30. 
• ???? (in Japanese). Japanese Movie Database. Retrieved 2010-03-30. 

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Notes

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