This thesis relates the debates about modernity, culture and revolution in the perspective of the depictions of the violated and sexualized body, and explores the repercussions of such debates in what became known as the political season of Japan after World War II. Specifically, the analysis focuses on the problematization of the revolutionary left factions by the films of Oshima Nagisa (1932-2013), recognized as mentor of the Nuberu Bagu (Japanese New Wave), of Wakamatsu Koji (1936-2012) and of Adachi Masao (1939-), from the Pinku eiga (Pink Film) genre, which dealt with the erotic and the pornographic. Filmmakers whose production was driven by the fusion of politics, sex and violence, and marked by the activism of pro-democracy movements beginning in the 1950s — supplanted in the early 1970s, when the country became a world economic power. The debate about the aporia of Japanese modernity, based on the persistence of agonizing pre-capitalist vestiges in a capitalist society, produced several antagonistic narratives throughout the twentieth century. Among them, that which refuted the cultural subordination to the West gave support to the ultranationalist imperialism in the war that squandered the country. As a result of the process of democratization and demilitarization during the US occupation of Japan (1945-1952), and the conflicts that came with its subsequent reversal, discussions of modernity multiplied in the troubled post-war period. The abolition of the political powers of the emperor Hirohito, who was led to publicly abdicate his divine condition and declare himself a mere mortal, was the most shocking of the changes made in the period. In declaring the defeat of the country and his carnality, the emperor imploded the power of the Kokutai, the nation-body, which organized the entire Japanese symbolic system. In the early years of the occupation, writers such as Sakaguchi Ango (1906-1955) and Tamura Taijuro (1911-1983), exponents of carnal literature in the kasutori underground culture, exalted the carnal body (nikutai) as a counterpoint to the nation-body (Kokutai). In fact, carnal literature was one of several postwar expressions, which, in dissonant approaches, revered nikutai, and the concept of shutaisei. In it, decadence and immorality were defended as the basis for a more realistic apprehension of human precariousness, for the construction of a new ethics, subjective and autonomous (shutaisei), and as a condition for access to the modern. The political philosopher Maruyama Masao (1914-1996), one of the best-known modernists who defended the ethics of shutaisei, posited carnal literature, however, against a democratic and cultured (or modern) Japan, since the sensual representations and violent ones expressed precisely the nature that should be overcome. That is, the approaches to sexuality, cruelty and perversion, while claiming the modern (or the refusal of the Kokutai s authority), referred back to the pre-modern native sensibility. This suggests that the aporia of modernity in the disintegration of post-defeat was expressed in the ambiguity of the political apprehension of the shutaisei. This notion would be central to the formation of the political subject linked to the pro-democracy movements and the avant-garde art expressions from the 1950s to the early 1970s.