Go, Go, Second Time Virgin is the story of two damned and abused teenagers who meet and fall in mutant love on a Tokyo rooftop. Their only hope is to cement their love with an escape into oblivion.
Direction
Wakamatsu turns a rooftop into infinite space through sheer will.
Cinematography
High-contrast black-and-white that makes violence look like calligraphy.
Writing
Dialogue so spare it feels chanted rather than spoken.
Director
Kōji Wakamatsu
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Wakamatsu shot this in four days for $3,000 — Pink Film economics forced his radical minimalism.
Released months after the 1968 student protests collapsed, the film channels defeated revolutionary energy into private apocalypse.
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