Yoshihiro Katô

Tokyo, fin des années 1960. Eddie, jeune drag-queen, est la favorite de Gonda, propriétaire du bar où elle travaille. Cette relation provoque la jalousie de la maîtresse de Gonda, Leda, matrone du bar. Eddie et Gonda se demandent alors comment se débarrasser d’elle…

A young man reaches adolescence and escapes the nunnery where he survived a tortured upbringing; the world outside suddenly seems even more frightening than before.

A documentary of an avant-garde theatre performance, presents an orgiastic rite of sex, degradation, and bloody sacrifice, performed by Zero-Jigen.

The story of a sexy girl with a passion for attracting men and counting the money she entices from them with her body.

The White Hare of Inaba is a film directed by Katō Yoshihiro, a central member of Zero Jigen, with cinematography by the filmmaker Ōe Masanori. Drawing on the Japanese myth of the white hare of Inaba, it presents a white hare (i.e. woman) leaping across waters full of ferocious sharks (i.e. male-dominated society), presenting a vision for a new era while capturing on film the joy of human beings’ inherent Eros and a new mode of “family” that breaks free of feudalistic social constraints.

After the Expo ’70 Destruction Joint-Struggle Group disbanded, Katō released Brahmin (Burāmin, 1971-76).