Violated Angels

Violated Angels
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Directed by	Kōji Wakamatsu
Produced by	Kōji Wakamatsu
Written by	Masao Adachi Jūrō Kara Kōji Wakamatsu
Starring	Jūrō Kara Keiko Koyanagi Miki Hayashi
Music by	Koji Takamura
Cinematography	Hideo Itoh
Edited by	Fumio Tomita
Distributed by	Wakamatsu Productions
Release dates	March 1967 (1967-03)
Running time	56 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Violated Angels (犯された白衣,, Okasareta Hakui) is a film made by controversial Japanese director Kōji Wakamatsu in 1967. Wakamatsu's most famous film, it is based on the mass murder spree of Richard Speck in 1966.

Plot

A young man breaks into a nurses' rooming house and one-by-one kills off the nurses therein. In the tradition of Wakamatsu's other Pinku eiga, there is lots of sexuality and nudity. However most of the actual murders take place off screen.

Cast

• Jūrō Kara as The Handsome Boy
• Keiko Koyanagi as The Head Nurse
• Miki Hayashi as Nurse A
• Shoko Kidowaki as Nurse B
• Makiko Saegusa as Nurse C
• Kyoko Yoyoi as Nurse D
• Michiko Sakamoto as The Young Girl
• Gusaku Satô as Riot Policeman
• Shûzô Tanaka as Riot Policeman
• Matajûrô Arafune as Riot Policeman
• Kentarô Aichi as Riot Policeman

Production

The film was shot in just three days, probably much of it improvised and because of the low budget, many of the actresses were not professionals.

Criticism

Like many films of this nature, Violated Angels was called anti-feminist and misogynistic by some critics. In Film As A Subversive Art, a book on underground cinema, Amos Vogel praises Wakamatsu's artistic talent, yet pans the film for its "...anti-feminist sadism which is not based on any ideological explanation and finally contributes misanthropic flavour to his work."

External links

• Violated Angels at IMDb
• 犯された白衣 at the Japanese Movie Database (Japanese)
• Violated Angels at AllMovie