The pinku eiga (ピンク映画, sometimes transcribed pink eiga , pinku-eiga or pink-eiga ) means “pink cinema literally” and indicates an erotic form of cinema Japanese. Afterwards 1971, the studios Nikkatsu called Romance porn their pinku eiga .

The kind pinku eiga

This term is composed of the English word pink , meaning pink, and of the word Japanese eiga , meaning cinema. The kind pinku eiga gathers films with more or less erotic content, without the erotism being necessarily the central object of film: the first pinku eiga were often judged films obscenes for some anecdotic scenes the naked ones, and censures it, which in particular prohibited to show pilosities or of the bodies genital, forced the realizers to maintain the interest the spectator by means of conventional cinematographic processes. The pinku eiga would be thus to bring closer to the Softcore or Cinema of exploitation (more precisely, sexploitation ). The scenario remains relatively important, the sex is not shown crûment, various forms of perversions and especially of sadism with the regard of the women often constitute the erotic main resource, and the films pinku eiga are generally made with a tiny budget. The photographic quality of the first pinku eiga distinguishes them too modern erotic films: it were turned in 35 mm and were planned for to be projected on big screen.

History of the pinku eiga

Beginnings

The beginnings of the pinku eiga correspond to a difficult phase of history of the Japanese cinema. When in the middle of the Sixties hearths start to be largely equipped with television sets (movement strongly accelerated by the behavior of the Olympic Games of summer of 1964 with Tokyo), the large production companies undergo a decline of audience worrying. They react in producing films with the topics plus touts, the center of which the sex (with the pinku then the Romance porn ) and violence (in particular in the Yakuza eiga ). In this economic context, the pinku eiga becomes inevitably a kind of commercial cinema with small budget. The Olympic Games 1964 were also the occasion, for government, of to clean the shady mediums in the objective posted to give an image more presentable of the Japan: the pornographic Striptease S and films were prohibited, which contributed certainly to the rise of the pinku , and to push the kind towards the large studios and a stronger visibility. Thus the first pinku eiga which marked the history was Kuroi yuki ( Black Snow ) of Tetsuji Takechi because of its lawsuit for “obscenity” in 1965, whereas the true ones first pinku , for which the word was invented, went back to the years 1962 - 1963 but circulated in an independent distribution network, with the restricted public.

Since end of the year 60

Of anecdotiquement erotic (some scenes the naked ones, or sexual relations more suggested than shown) in the neighborhoods of 1965, the pinku became more corrosive and close to the cinema of exploitation towards end of the year 60 and during the Seventies, in particular through sound prolongation in the productions of the Nikkatsu called Romance porn . This popularity declined during the Eighties, when the market of the Vidéo he imposed the competition of erotic films purely or pornographic. But the kind did not completely disappear, and one still produces some pinku eiga nowadays.

After 1971, the “novel porn” of Nikkatsu

The term of Romance porn (ロマンポルノ, Romance for “romantic” and porn in the direction of erotism software ) is rather a lucky find marketing of the company of production Nikkatsu that a really innovative kind compared to pinku eiga : it is under this name that many erotic films produced by Nikkatsu to leave from 1971 will be indicated. Films of the same kind produced by others companies will be rather called erodakushion , productions erotic. As with the pinku , the very moderate erotism of the Romance porn will surprise perhaps less the contemporary Western spectator that his leaning for various forms of sadistic violence: the Japanese censure was strong, and the scenes of love explicit (or the monstration of pilosities or sexual organs) were rigorously impossible, any failure would severely be condemned. Nikkatsu was continued besides in 1972 to have produced 4 judged films obscenes.

The films of the kind Romance porn were mainly produced during the Seventies (although the series of the Romance porn was not officially stopped that in 1988). These films were carried out very quickly (generally less than 15 days, Turning and Assembly included/understood), with small budgets, was short (70 to approximately 80 minutes) and produced into large numbers (of order 6 or 7 films per month). But the Romance porn were turned by realizers professionals and tested, in general in 35 mm, and they were not always stripped of esthetic qualities if not artistic interest.

Notorious authors and works

The most famous realizers of the kind are Tetsuji Takechi, Koji Wakamatsu, Osamu Yamashita, Masao Adachi and Takahisa Zeze. Curriculum vitae of the sexual connections and the Embryo are famous pinku eiga .

Tatsumi Kumashiro, Noboru Tanaka and Akira Kato was famous realizers of Romance porn . wet Desire , the House of perversities and the True story of Abe Sada are notorious examples of Romance porn .

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