A no-holds-barred, narcissist and funny film correspondence between a Master Home-Movie-maker and an idiosyncratic artist-nymphomaniac. In this début film by the young film-maker, artist and composer Obitani Yuuri, his visits an exhibition of work by Yosufu Kosuzu. She has put a ‘hair diary’ on show: in a short time she went to bed with more than fifty different men and collected a pluck of pubic hair from each, stuck it on paper and framed it, each with the name of the man and the date neatly printed on a card. Obitani filmed her with his super8 camera at the exhibition and is obviously charmed by the perverse nature of the work – inJapan showing pubic hair is completely taboo. He later sent her a film and a camera so she could reply. That is the start of a comic and open-hearted film correspondence which turns into a more direct and finally into a very direct confrontation.The Hair Opera is a realistic report of the film correspondence but also the story of a seduction, a love story. Tony Rayns (Vancouver film festival catalogue): ‘Not since David Holzman shot his famous Diary has first-person film-making been so startling and compulsive.’
