A Womb to Let (1968)
Douban
代孕女
/
腹貸し女
/
Haragashionna
director:
Kōji Wakamatsu
playwright:
出口出(足立正生)
actor:
門麻実
/
吉沢健
/
伊地知幸子
genre:
Drama
region:
Japan
language:
Japanese
release date: 1968-03
IMDb: tt0288037
腹貸し女
overview
A slightly experimental entry by Wakamatsu that is full of the 60s hippy culture. A wife with a fertility problem wants to use her sister's womb to have children, but her sister is enjoying her boyfriend and sexual freedom. The husband is a commanding chauvinist and this soon turns out to be an uninteresting study on authority, patriarchy and conservatism vs. free love and youth culture. The cinematography uses many artsy superimpositions, compares a man breathing hard while running, to sex and gynecology visits, and employs mixtures of color, tints, B&W, and dream sequences while the people have sex, orgies and a bloody abortion.