Eros + Massacre (エロス＋虐殺, Erosu purasu gyakusatsu) is a 1969 Japanese experimental drama film directed by Yoshishige Yoshida, who wrote it in cooperation with Masahiro Yamada.

[1][2] The film is a biography of anarchist Sakae Ōsugi, who was murdered by the Japanese military police in 1923 (see Amakasu Incident).

Parallel to the telling of Ōsugi's life, two students (Eiko and Wada) do research on the political theories and ideas of free love that he upheld.

[10] Instead of using flashback sequences, Yoshida interweaves the two levels of narrated time,[11] while visual elements such as the repeated use of reflections of the characters or collapsing shoji screens accentuate the fusion of reality and fiction and the illusionary nature of truth.

"[14] For Isolde Standish, Yoshida, by emphasising effect and visual style and denying the viewer's expectations, attempts to communicate to the audience that what they see on the screen are fabrications which need to be completed by their interpretation.

[…] Ultimately, the frames of past and present completely disappear, in this way, there is the sense that contemporary young women and Noe Itō are able to converse.

[16] In a 1970 interview for the magazine Cahiers du Cinéma, Yoshida explained: "In making this film, I wanted to transform the legend of Osugi by means of the imaginary.

"[16] Eros + Massacre was screened in the theatrical version at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, in 2008[17] and at the Harvard Film Archive in 2009[18] as part of retrospectives on Yoshida's work.