Memorable, crazy movie

Don't listen to the negative reviews

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

Koji Wakamatsu is a strange dude; he was raised a farmer, but became a low-level gangster after hitting the town due to getting expelled from school for fighting. He worked for an organized crime gang which collected payments from film crews and got himself in prison for six months, where he was tormented by guards, fueling his distrust of authority. He then made a ton of pinku (soft porn) films. His other exploits include getting high with Yoko Ono in a hotel room, getting banned from entering the USA because of radical political affiliations in his youth, producing Nagisa Oshima's controversial pinku film In the Realm of the Senses and, according to some rumors, even sending his daughters to a Palestine army camp to teach them discipline.Take everything written above, and take the title "Go, Go, Second Time Virgin" and just try to visualize what sort of a film this is. And the final result, surprising no one, is weird as sh*t. A pinku Japanese New Wave exploitation art-house film shot on a shoestring budget in foru days, resorting to a single location like in other Wakamatsu films, in this case a building rooftop. In the end - the movie is very nihilistic - you can't escape the rooftop and its wickedness, and the only way out is jumping off of it to your death.The title of the film is taken from one of the poems the heroine recites, and is a reference to how she bled after getting raped on the roof even if it weren't her first time. For visual accompaniment, Wakamatsu focuses on white hanging sheets which disappear after the opening scene. The film's bleak B&W look is also sometimes interrupted by a cyan-tinted flashbacks and, later, a full color violent flashback which manages to be incredibly unsettling despite the extra-fake blood effects and the amateurish acting.It's a short watch, spanning just over an hour in typical pinku fashion, but I'd say every minute of it is well-spent even if I have trouble understanding it. It relies on poetry and jazz songs to give the story more depth, although Wakamatsu's intent is never made clear, right to the very end where the camera focuses on an children-aimed ad advertising not to sniff thinner. There's also a scene where the titular girl, Poppo, speaks to the camera and yells "Fuck you!" after confessing that neither her nor her mother felt any pleasure while getting raped. The scene has been read as Wakamatsu's attack on conventional plot points concerning rape in pinku films.One oddity in particular concerning this films is that it's tied to the Manson Family murders. Apparently, Wakamatsu based his '60s scripts on actual crime events. This movie for example ends with a quick-cut collage of violent manga extracts and pictures of Roman Polanski and his murdered wife Sharon Tate. The film begins on August 8th, the same day as the Tate murders, and 3 women and 4 men are killed in the movie (same number as the Tate-LaBianca killings).And you know what else? This movie is really good. Although I have no idea what it's trying to say, and several sequences were extremely unpleasant to sit through (it's the intent, but still), the atmosphere was just amazing. The combination of excellent jazz music and the dark, cold rooftop location was spot on. It may not be an enjoyable watch, but holy hell is it memorable.

As other reviewers have mentioned, it's difficult to know what to make of this film - and I suffered from the same problem! Go Go Second Time Virgin is as surreal and strange as its title suggests it is. The basis behind the plot is relatively simple, but I have no idea what the film is trying to say and that's what enforces the weirdness of the film. Go Go Second Tim Virgin starts with a rape sequence and from there we focus on two teenagers; one of which being the girl that was raped. The pair of them are depressed, and the girl insists that she wants to die and asks the boy to do it, but he refuses, preferring a different solution to the problem. The film is stylishly shot; most of it is in black and white although certain sequences are portrayed in colour. The bleak atmosphere is the main point of the film; this film is extremely bleak throughout and not a great deal of fun, which might not please anyone going into this film expecting something more fun, considering the film's 'pinku' origins. There's not a great deal of sleaze in the film - the rape scenes are not overly graphic and there's not a great deal of gore either. I won't name this film as a favourite or anything like that, but it's an interesting little flick that is definitely worth seeing, and therefore comes recommended.

This one presents an even more depressing (and pointless) concept than THE EMBRYO: the film is basically a series of gang-rapes committed on a young girl by a mixed group of wastrels on the roof of an apartment block, separated only by scenes in which the girl is befriended by an unwilling (and possibly impotent) hanger-on where they recite poetry and sing songs as a means of coping with their strange predicament! A couple of similarly violent reminiscences by each of these characters are effectively shown in color, as opposed to the stark monochrome photography of the main events. Despite the abundant nudity on display (the girl is naked for most of the film's running time), the end result is distinctly unerotic; not surprisingly or, perhaps inevitably, the story resolves itself with bloodshed as the gang is butchered with a knife by the enigmatic boy, after which he and the girl leap off the roof to their death!!

Koji Wakamtsu's "Go,Go Second Time Virgin" is a classic pinku eiga film.Wakamatsu was raised to be a farmer but made his move to the big city and tried his hand at being a gangster and a convict before he found his true calling as Japan's most notorious experimental movie director,who made over 30 films between 1963 and 1974,many of them too raw and disturbing to be shown in theaters but acclaimed at fine-film festivals."Go,Go Second Time Virgin" tells the story of of Poppo(Mimi Kozakura),a young girl raped(for the second time in her young life)by a gang of street ruffians one August night in Tokyo.Left bleeding on a rooftop,she survives the night and meets Tsukio(Michio Akiyama),a fellow teenager with problems of his own.Together they explore the darker side of life and sex,with Poppo's suicidal obsessions matching similar threads in Tsukio's unsuccessfully published book of poetry.The joy they find in each other inflames their rage at the unjust world around them,and their love engenders a tragic killing spree."Go,Go Second Time Virgin" is a beautifully shot film and the cinematography is brilliant.Most of the film is in gorgeous black-and-white,with a few tinted sequences and a full-color flashback to Tsukio's unfortunate orgy experience.So if you are a fan of Japanese art-house exploitation give this one a look.8 out of 10.