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The Sex Check

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Original title

Sekkusu chekku: Daini no seiaka

AKA

The Sex Check
Bisexual

Year

1968

Running time

89 min.

Country

Japan

Director

Yasuzô Masumura

Screenwriter

Keiichiro Ryu. Novel: Daikichi Terauchi

Cast

Music

Tadashi Yamauchi

Cinematography

Akira Kitazaki

Producer

Daiei Studios

Genre

Drama

Synopsis

Ogata plays Shiro Miyagi, a sprinter with Olympic aspirations whose dreams were shattered by WWII. A broken man, he leads the dissolute life of a gigolo until a chance meeting with a fiery young athlete named Hiroko (Michiyo Yasuda, who also plays Naomi in A Fool’s Love). Realizing that she has talent as a sprinter, Miyagi sees a second chance at Olympic glory in becoming her coach. Following Miyagi’s unconventional, military-style training, Hiroko sets a record for the 100-meter dash, but her greatest hurdle proves to be a “sex check” which all professional athletes must pass. The Second Sex shows the love-hate relationship between athlete and coach as a means to explore a hypothesis about gender, androgyny, and human potential. This is, simply put, an unclassifiable film.

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The Sex Check

1968

Yasuzô Masumura