"Someone like Jean-Luc Godard is for me intellectual counterfeit money when compared to a good kung fu film."
January 21, 2006
The movies are called pinku eiga or "pink films", softcore erotic films produced in Japan. These movies are waist-deep in kink, sometimes seriously subversive, sexually, aesthetically and politcally, and sometimes violent (and, at times, reprehesively so). And these films were not all strictly straight; there are gay pink movies too. In the male dominated Japanese film idustry, pink movie production was about the only way a woman filmmaker could actually direct a commercial feature film. One such director is Sachi Hamano, who has been directing pink films since 1971; you can see a 5 minute interview with her, courtesy of SexTV. If you're interested in advertising art, check out this nice gallery of pink movie posters.
posted by Sean on 1/21/2006 11:08:00 PM| link