Wakamatsu Koji

Wakamatsu Koji (若松孝二) was born on April 1, 1936. Wakamatsu Koji movies and tv shows: Violated Angels (Japan), The Millennial Rapture 2013 (Japan), 11.25 The Day He Chose His Own Fate 2012 (Japan), Petrel Hotel Blue 2012 (Japan), Keitai Deka Zenigata Yui 2010 (Japan)...

Koji Wakamatsu was a Japanese film director who directed such pinku eiga films as Ecstasy of the Angels (天使の恍惚 Tenshi no Koukotsu, 1972) and Go, Go, Second Time Virgin (ゆけゆけ二度目の処女 Yuke Yuke Nidome no Shojo, 1969). He also produced Nagisa Oshima's controversial film In the Realm of the Senses (1976). He has been called "the most important director to emerge in the pink film genre," and one of "Japan's leading directors of the 1960s."

His 2010 film, Caterpillar, was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival.

In 2011, a new film on the last days of acclaimed novelist and political activist Yukio Mishima, focusing on the stream of events leading to the so-called Ichigaya incident of November 25, 1970, was announced as being on its stage of full completion. The film entitled 11.25 Jiketsu No Hi, Mishima Yukio To Wakamonotachi [11.25自決の日、三島由紀夫と若者たち] features Japanese actor Arata as Mishima. The film competed in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival.

Wakamatsu died after being hit by a taxi cab in Tokyo on October 17, 2012, on his way home after a budget meeting to discuss his next project, a movie about the Japanese nuclear lobby and Tepco.