Endless Waltz

Description: Koji Wakamatsu who in the past has directed such pungently titled exploitation flicks as Go Go Be a Virgin a Second Time and Violated Women in White spins this biopic about jazz saxophonist Kaoru Abe Kou Machida and his wife noted writer Izumi Suzuki Reona Hirota A sort of Sid and Nancy for the free jazz set the film opens with Suzuki dialing a wrong number and getting Abe Instead of hanging up he asks her out on a date and soon the two are shacked up and living together Sex drugs and Ornette Coleman feature prominently in the early phase of their relationship and soon they realize that they are in fact soulmates Abe is a romantic artist as well as a self destructive self absorbed manchild prone to angry tirades and epileptic seizures In turn Izumi is first presented as a bubble headed hippie chick who goes through men like tissues but as her relationship with Abe deepens into marriage and motherhood Izumi reveals a steel will and pragmatism refusing to sacrifice herself to Abe s muse Their tempestuous relationship grows increasingly destructive A beautiful late Wakamatsu film about japanese free jazz legend Kaoru Abe Lots of screeching saxophones drug taking booze drinking abundant nudity and assorted madness Nice appearances by some of the most iconic figures of japanese underground music like Haino Keiji with Fushitsusha and writer and critic Teruto Soejima and nice performances from Shibusashirazu Fedayien members Naohiro Kawashita Shiro Ohnuma and Daisuke Fuwa

Country:  Japanese

Released: 1995

Genre: Drama Romance Music

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