Go, Go Second Time Virgin opens with the gang rape of a seventeen year old girl by four men. With a slow Japanese acid rock tune playing in the background, the camera focuses on the face of the young girl while she is raped by each man. This scene then goes to a flashback in sepia tones in which the viewer witnesses the first time the girl was gang raped. Instead of fleeing the scene or calling the police, the girl remains on the rooftop and makes a shaky friendship with a boy, the son of the building's manager, who witnessed her rape. Spending their time on the rooftop, the boy and girl engage in a conversation which basically consists of the girl telling the boy that she wants him to kill her. However, the boy, of course, is reluctant to do so, but as time goes on the boy agrees to do so, and it seems that he might have some experience in the area of killing.
Go, Go Second Time Virgin is a bizarre film by a director who broke many filmic taboos and directed films such as Blood Red from the Sun, The Wet Flower's Budding Eye, and Flesh Target Escape in a time in which Japan was producing one pink film after another, so where Miike can be viewed promulgator of extreme violence in Japanese film of today, Wakamatsu was pushing the envelope of eroticism over forty years ago during a time in which censorship was much stronger. However, how does Go, Go Second Time Virgin rate as a film? Upon my first watching of the film it seemed nothing more than a way to display the naked body of its lead actress as much as possible and upon my second viewing of this film it seemed as if Wakamatsu was trying to create a film that not only had erotic aspirations but was also trying to push the pink film to a new level of artistry. For some it seems that this film did reach this goal and for others this film is nothing more than a big mess. However, for those who like the films of Suzuki Norifumi, the older films of Oshima Nagisa and Imamura Shohei, or maybe the fiction of Murakami Ryu Go, Go Second Time Virgin might be a good example of some of the sleazier films produced during the 1960s in Japan.
Go, Go Second Time Virgin is a bizarre film by a director who broke many filmic taboos and directed films such as Blood Red from the Sun, The Wet Flower's Budding Eye, and Flesh Target Escape in a time in which Japan was producing one pink film after another, so where Miike can be viewed promulgator of extreme violence in Japanese film of today, Wakamatsu was pushing the envelope of eroticism over forty years ago during a time in which censorship was much stronger. However, how does Go, Go Second Time Virgin rate as a film? Upon my first watching of the film it seemed nothing more than a way to display the naked body of its lead actress as much as possible and upon my second viewing of this film it seemed as if Wakamatsu was trying to create a film that not only had erotic aspirations but was also trying to push the pink film to a new level of artistry. For some it seems that this film did reach this goal and for others this film is nothing more than a big mess. However, for those who like the films of Suzuki Norifumi, the older films of Oshima Nagisa and Imamura Shohei, or maybe the fiction of Murakami Ryu Go, Go Second Time Virgin might be a good example of some of the sleazier films produced during the 1960s in Japan.