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News reaches us that veteran director Koji Wakamatsu has died following his accident with a Tokyo taxi last Friday. Never afraid to court controversy, Wakatmatsu had directed over one hundred films since beginning his career in the avant-garde political pink film genre. His career had been experiencing something of a resurgence of late with new films at Cannes and Venice and the director had, in fact, only just returned from Busan where he was awarded the Asian Filmmaker of the year award. It is certainly very sad indeed that we shall never see where his career might have take him next.
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This is so sad. At least he went out on a high after winning Asian Filmmaker of the Year but still whether you liked his films or not the guy was a true filmmaker. I have only just begun to explore his works.
I’ve only seen a couple of his films myself, though United Red Army and Caterpillar have been in my to watch pile for a stupidly long time. So sad when it seems he had a lot more to say.