Bye Bye Love
Director: Isao Fujisawa Run Time: 85 min. Release Year: 1974 Language: Japanese
Starring: Ren Tamura, Miyabi Ichijô, Yûzô Morita, Atsuko Ami, Satomi Oki
Bye Bye Love (1974), is about a fast, unlikely romance between a nihilistic drifter and femme shoplifter who both end up on the lam for murder. A doomed summer road trip through Japan, which in turn reflects on the dissipating promise of 1960s counterculture and free love. The Japanese queer landmark explores societal malaise, free love and gender fluidity in rapidly evolving 1970s Japan, as both Utamaro and Giko get to know each other on the road, by way of a variety of psychedelic and frank sexual encounters.
Get tickets for Bye Bye Love only for Pop’s Cult Theater Double Feature alongside Looking for an Angel