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BD 84 Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974
Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2026 6:44 pm
by What A Disgrace
April 20
• Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974 (Gokushiteki Erosu: Renka 1974) presented from a new HD transfer of the film.
• A new filmed introduction to the film by writer and critic Chris Fujiwara.
• Interview with Kazuo Hara: The director in conversation at the 2018 International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam.
• Trailer.
• Booklet with new writing on the film by author and critic Tony Rayns.
• New and improved English subtitle translation.
• Region Free (A/B/C) Blu-ray.
• World premiere on Blu-ray.
Re: BD 104(?) - Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974
Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2026 8:04 pm
by zedz
A challenging, disturbing and fascinating film (you can take the first three words in the title at face value!) I wonder if his similarly confrontational previous documentary Goodbye CP is on the horizon as well?
Re: BD 104(?) - Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974
Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2026 8:13 pm
by swo17
I thought I remembered hearing there was a set in the works. Was that just Criterion's forthcoming Eclipse set?
Re: BD 104(?) - Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974
Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2026 11:35 pm
by What A Disgrace
swo17 wrote: Wed Mar 04, 2026 8:13 pm
I thought I remembered hearing there was a set in the works. Was that just Criterion's forthcoming Eclipse set?
Yes, a set of five films in the new Eclipse series.
Re: BD 104(?) - Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974
Posted: Wed Mar 04, 2026 11:42 pm
by zedz
That's great for availability, but most of Hara's films would benefit from a lot more context than a combined essay can offer.
Re: BD 104(?) - Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974
Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2026 1:42 am
by What A Disgrace
Yes, personally I'm not going to get the Criterion set unless a few years pass and Second Run (or anybody else in the UK) have yet to release any further works after this disc. I just might regret it if I did.
Besides the two that SR have/will released, Janus also has Goodbye CP, A Dedicated Life and Sennan Asbestos Disaster, but the announcement specified Hara's five works with Sachiko Kobayashi, which includes Minamata Mandala and excludes A Dedicated Life.
Re: BD 104(?) - Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974
Posted: Thu Mar 05, 2026 11:52 am
by Bikey
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Re: BD 84 Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974
Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2026 10:49 am
by Bikey
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Re: BD 84 Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974
Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2026 2:43 pm
by Bikey
"For anyone serious about personal documentary, Japanese independent cinema, or the ethics of nonfiction filmmaking, this disc is indispensable - raw, unflinching, and long overdue."
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Re: BD 84 Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974
Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2026 1:22 pm
by Bikey
"[Kazuo Hara] is a genuinely unique, fearless talent, and the proof is right here."
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Re: BD 84 Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974
Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2026 2:29 pm
by What A Disgrace
I only just realized, now that my copy has arrived, that this IS spine #84, sitting right between Barnabas Kos and The Hop Pickers, which came out a year and a half ago. I wonder what held up the release?
Re: BD 84 Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974
Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2026 11:01 am
by ikms
Showed my wife the package "it's by the guy who did Emperor's Naked Army, sure to be crazy" and she replied "How do you know?" which caused me to note the lack of BBFC certification... oh right, because it's a documentary. Watched it last night and for the first time considered the audience/purpose of those UK censors; is it to protect the viewer, or the participants/subjects (human or otherwise)? Given Radiance has titles with multiple disc masters to avoid potential prosecutions, how incredible that a humble documentary gets an easy pass, even when it is up there with some of the more transgressive of the Japanese new wave.
Re: BD 84 Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974
Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2026 11:14 am
by GaryC
ikms wrote: Mon Apr 27, 2026 11:01 am
Showed my wife the package "it's by the guy who did Emperor's Naked Army, sure to be crazy" and she replied "How do you know?" which caused me to note the lack of BBFC certification... oh right, because it's a documentary. Watched it last night and for the first time considered the audience/purpose of those UK censors; is it to protect the viewer, or the participants/subjects (human or otherwise)? Given Radiance has titles with multiple disc masters to avoid potential prosecutions, how incredible that a humble documentary gets an easy pass, even when it is up there with some of the more transgressive of the Japanese new wave.
Under the Video Recordings Act, documentary material can be exempted from BBFC certification, but as per the amendment in 2014 (Video Recordings Act 1984 (Exempted Video Works) Regulations 2014) there is a list of material that cannot be exempted and, as it says on the BBFC site, "The effect of these Regulations is that if content is likely to be classified above PG it is not exempt." I haven't seen this film, but is that likely? If it is exempted, it hasn't been submitted to the BBFC so they haven't classified it. Maybe someone could comment?
Re: BD 84 Extreme Private Eros: Love Song 1974
Posted: Tue May 19, 2026 10:24 am
by Bikey
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