Directed by Juliet Bashore • 1986 • United States
Starring Tigr, Sharon Mitchell, Jon Martin

Juliet Bashore’s quasi-documentary plunge into the 1980s porn industry takes an unsparing look at issues of misogyny, drug abuse, and exploitation via the story of two women—the naive Tigr and the magnetic, imperious Sharon Mitchell—caught in a toxic romance. By turns mesmerizing and unsettling, KAMIKAZE HEARTS is both a fascinating record of pregentrification San Francisco’s X-rated underground and an intense, searing lesbian love story that offers a disturbing glimpse of the modification of bodies, feelings, and lives.