With all of the recent horror documentaries, it’s nice to have a documentary on something more interesting than a single film. Acclaimed documentarian Yves Montmayeur is doing a thorough look at pinku eiga, or erotic pink films from the exploitation days of Japan during the 70s, called Pinku Eiga: Inside the Pleasure Dome Of Japanese Erotic Cinema.
For those who are unknown to this sub-genre, here’s a quick lowdown (as told by Wiki): “Pink film is a style of Japanese softcore pornographic theatrical film. Films of this genre first appeared in the early 1960s, and dominated the Japanese domestic cinema from the mid-1960s through the mid-1980s.[1][2] In the 1960s, the pink films were largely the product of small, independent studios. In the 1970s, some of Japan’s major studios, facing the loss of their theatrical audience, took over the pink film. With their access to higher production-values and talent,...
For those who are unknown to this sub-genre, here’s a quick lowdown (as told by Wiki): “Pink film is a style of Japanese softcore pornographic theatrical film. Films of this genre first appeared in the early 1960s, and dominated the Japanese domestic cinema from the mid-1960s through the mid-1980s.[1][2] In the 1960s, the pink films were largely the product of small, independent studios. In the 1970s, some of Japan’s major studios, facing the loss of their theatrical audience, took over the pink film. With their access to higher production-values and talent,...
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