It’s safe to say that, aside from Japan, there is no other country where a handful of top directors, including famous directors and Oscar winners, can learn their craft in adult films. Or even anywhere else in the world imaginable.
But when the movie is shown at the same time the TV comes into the home1960s, it’s the so-called Pink Eiga Sustained much of the film industry for decades, nurturing a generation of directors, screenwriters, and other film-making teams.
usually in 67 and 1960 between minutes long, shot at mm And released in theaters, usually in three tickets, low-budget productions give directors a lot of freedom, as long as they deliver a prescribed number of sex scenes.
In 20 the world-renowned Japan reemerges on the world stage after World War II as Tokyo The government was not happy when the host of the Olympic Games, Shochiku, brought Tetsuji Takechi’s daydreams to the fore. The film had a relatively large Pink Eiga budget and also pushed the boundaries of censorship, causing certain body areas to be blurred, a restriction that continues to be imposed on Japanese adult films to this day.
Despite the controversy, the genre thrived and a network of theaters across the country built exclusively for Pink Eiga.
Japan’s film industry has always been dominated by a Hollywood-like studio system. Once operating, directors, producers, screenwriters and actors are all contracted to one of the integrated film production and distribution specialties.
“Under such a system, there is no room for new ideas or innovations to be tried out quickly in a movie; the lineup is decided a year in advance,” said Nikkatsu Studio’s assistant director and later pornographic producer Koichiro Kanayama explained.
When mainstream film revenues fell,” Kanayama added.
The late Koji Wakamatsu was one of the first famous directors to dabble in the genre One, his Secret Behind the Wall was screened in Berlin 1965, the first film in Pink Eiga screened overseas. Shortly after, the director left Nikkatsu to form his own Wakamatsu production company, which would release pink and art films, often filled with countercultural themes and messages. Wakamatsu’s non-pink fare was later Will compete in Berlin and Cannes.
“Many new directors, screenwriters and assistant directors will come from that world to this world if they show talent, such as the crew who worked with Koji Wakamatsu,” Jinshan said.
He likened the process to the way new talent emerges from the indie music scene and student theater, especially in 60 and 1970s.
Other filmmakers who have ventured into the porn genre include internationally acclaimed director Kurosawa Qing(Spy); Yojiro Takita, 2009 Oscar with Departure Foreign Language Award Winner; with Masayuki Suo ( Shall we dance? ).
Takahisa Zeze, Director The Last Will , the opening film of this year’s Tokyo International Film Festival, cut out the director’s teeth at the end of
to Pink Eiga. s. Even after his mainstream debut and being known as one of the “Four Kings” of the genre, he continued to film them into the early 2000.
“Pink Eiga had a low budget but gave the director a lot of creative freedom to express himself. It’s this freedom that’s important to me,” Zeze told The Hollywood Reporter. “There’s also the atmosphere created by a lot of young people working together as a team, which is enjoyable. In a sense, it’s the foundation of my filmmaking. “
The genre has a special place in the history of Nikki, which faced bankruptcy at the dawn of s when it launched its Roman Porno brand. Although still Just a fraction of the cost of a commercial movie, but Roman Porno’s budget is about 20 million yen (about $67, at the current exchange rate), in multiples of the average Pink Eiga cost.
More than 1, title will be produced by Nikkatsu before the home video effectively paid Roman Porno in 1988, but the brand’s No less credit for saving this legendary studio. Kanayama had the honor of serving as assistant director at Bed Partner of Daisuke Goto’s last title.
But Nikko will be at 2016, bringing a star-studded list of directors – Hideo Nakata (The Ring), Yuanyuan, Kazuya Shiraishi ( Wolf Blood ), Isao Yukisada and Akihiko Shiota — each have their say in Roman Porno Reboot.
And celebrate 20 On the anniversary of the brand’s founding, Nikkatsu returns to Roman Porno Now this year with three films. Among them, the one produced by Kaneko Hideosuke and Kanayama When the Rain Falls.As the director of Death Note, both nationally and internationally renowned, Kane also debuted in Debut in Roman Porno, back 1988 .
