Hara Kazuo makes confrontational documentary films in close collaboration with his subjects. This publication features a synopsis of Kyokushiteki erosu koiuta 1974 [Extreme Private Eros / Love Song 1974], a milestone in self-critical documentary and a powerful study of the stakes and limits of the sexual revolution, it is illustrated with stills, and includes a series of essays.

This film focuses on Hara's former partner, Takeda Miyuki, as she comes to terms with her bisexuality and intense scepticism towards traditional family structures. It portrays Hara as a jealous and resentful ex-partner for whom filming serves as self-therapy. Hara made Extreme Private Eros in close collaboration with Takeda, who invited him to follow her to Okinawa, where she had gone with their child to live with her new girlfriend. Takeda also asked Hara to document her giving birth unassisted to another child, the result of her relationship with a black American Gl. Adding further emotional complexity to the project, Hara invited his new girlfriend and producer Kobayashi Sachiko to assist in the production - resulting in a scene featuring a stinging conversation between the two women about Hara's abilities as an artist, his qualities as a lover, and his character as a person.

First edition; oblong 4to (182 x 258 mm, 7¼ x 10¼ in); black-and-white film stills and illustrations, film script and texts by Hatano Tetsuro, Ai Fumihiko, Saeki Yoko, Mizuho Fukuda, Iwatsuki Sumie, Minamikawa Taizo, Tahara Soichiro, Saito Jiro, and an interview between Satoru Saishu and Sasaki Mikiro; wire-stitched printed wrappers, red and white; covers rubbed, handling creases, short splits to head and foot of spine, light foxing and crease to corner of lower wrapper, a good copy; 96pp.