Kamikaze Hearts (1986)

Interesting facts

Kamikaze Hearts is a 1986 American quasi-documentary film directed by Juliet Bashore and written by Bashore and Tigr Mennett. It stars Sharon Mitchell, Tigr Mennett, Jon Martin, Sparky Vasque, Jerry Abrahms, and Robert McKenna. The soundtrack was composed by Georges Bizet, Walt Fowler, and Paul M. Young.

Background & production

Kamikaze Hearts, originally named Fact or Fiction, was conceived after Juliet Bashore, a filmmaking student working on a documentary on the porn industry in San Francisco, met Tigr Mennett. Mennett, an assistant director, was in a relationship with pornographic film actress Sharon Mitchell; the couple met while filming a scene.

Multiple elements of the film are fictional, including the Carmen parody and the leading couple's arguments, which were scripted and storyboarded. While actual people who worked within the porn industry starred in Kamikaze Hearts, these performers improvised, portraying different versions of themselves.

Juliet Bashore began shooting the film in the mid-1980s. It was filmed on location in North Beach, San Francisco, Embarcadero Freeway, and the Mission District, San Francisco.

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