Mamoru Watanabe

In order to be with the man she loves, Kim goes back to Japan from Korea. The man saved Kim from darkness, when she was little. But he was raised by Kim's mother under the dark world. Now, he is involved in the criminal world. To protect her love, Kim makes a dangerous plan to get the man from her mother.

Documentary filmmaker Kenjiro Fujii takes a look at the history of a distinctly Japanese brand of softcore pornography in this extensive examination of the "pinku eiga" genre (ピンク映画 Pinku eiga or Pinkeiga). For more than 40 years, so-called "pink" films have served as both a key source of revenue for the Japanese film industry as well as a launching pad for the careers of such mainstream filmmakers as Kiyoshi Kurosawa. After providing a detailed history of the still-profitable and popular genre through interviews with a variety of behind-the-scenes players and clips from such classic pink films as Fish Bait Boobies, director Fujii shifts his focus to the production of an upcoming pink film to offer a glimpse into the creative and stylistic evolution of the genre.

13-year-old Sachiko is about to encounter the most difficult moments in her young life. Her father abandons her and her mother attempts to commit suicide by slashing her wrist. Her teacher, whom she relies on heavily, leaves for northern Japan to take another job. Other students start to gossip about Sachiko and her former teacher. Sachiko then drops out of school and attempts to find herself.

The best must be the freshest. The best sake also follows the same principle to brew in which it needs the best and freshest raw materials, and also the freshest virgin to make it? Visiting one of a Japanese pub that seems to offer the best warm sake, Mononobe tries to follow the steps to reproduce the same flavor. However, he suddenly found out that those flavors are actually a combination of sake, sweat, and other bodily secretions of a virgin. As his only daughter is not a virgin anymore, the only way to make the best sake without a pure virgin is...

Sakura and Kenzo are married. Both think they can live a happy marriage, despite the fact that she cannot have children and he does not want to give up her relationship with her lover Yoko.

Nikkatsu Roman Porno

Pink film from 1985

東京の外れに建つラブホテル・シャルム。ここで20年にわたり支配人を務める花街育ちのちよは、数々の男と女のドラマを目撃してきた。本作ではなかなか明るみに出ることのないラブホテルでの騒動を、時にコミカルに、時にしっとりと紹介する。

Pink film from 1984

Based on the life of Japanese serial killer and thief Kiyotaka Katsuta.

Based on the life of Japanese serial killer and thief Kiyotaka Katsuta.

Nikkatsu Roman Porno

大学講師の吉松は駅でセーラー服の少女に一目ぼれする。美しい彼女を尾行する彼は、やがて彼女の家を突き止める。電話帳で自宅の番号を調べ猥褻な電話を掛け、母親と2人暮らしだとわかると、彼は綿密な計画を練る。

Japanese crime film

Nikkatsu Roman Porno

Tachibana is a drunk whose gambling compulsion ends up putting him in a bad way with the local Yakuza. Unable to pay his debt, he hocks the deed to his wife Izumi's restaurant (which she inherited from her now deceased father) in order to stay out of trouble with the thugs.

Pinku from 1982, distributed by Nikkatsu.

Pinku from 1981, distributed by Nikkatsu

異性に対する好奇心が旺盛な17歳の女子高生マリは、今日も親友の栄美と一緒に制服姿で歌舞伎町の歓楽街をぶらつき、いったん帰宅して服を着替えると、再び夜の街へと繰り出す。しかし、マリがディスコで踊り回っている間に、栄美は2人組の男にナンパされ、暴行されて処女を失ってしまう。翌日もその男たちから呼び出しを受け、彼らと組んで売春をするよう強要されたことを栄美から聞かされ、初めて事情を知ったマリは…。

Pinku from 1981, distributed by Nikkatsu

Pinku from 1981. A man in debt runs away from home, leaving his elderly father and wife between a rock and a hard place.

Pinku from 1981, distributed by Nikkatsu

Pinku from 1981, distributed by Nikkatsu.

Pinku from 1981, distributed by Nikkatsu.

Pinku from 1981, distributed by Nikkatsu

Pinku from 1981, distributed by Nikkatsu

Pinku from 1980, distributed by Nikkatsu.

Pinku from 1980, dsitributed by Nikkatsu

Pinku from 1980, dsitributed by Nikkatsu

Pinku from 1980.

An erotic drama reflecting the painful lust of two couples living in a residential complex. When a man got drunk, he undressed his wife and tied her up, and was a pervert who enjoyed insidious pleasures. The wife also experienced the joy of abnormal guilt, but was not satisfied with this one and started an affair with a man from the next room.

Pinku from 1980, distributed by Nikkatsu

Pinku from 1980, distributed by Nikkatsu.

Separated from her lover Kenji after he is sent off to war, Sanae is raped by general Takada and gives birth to a girl, Junko, who grows up to become a prostitute. One day, Kenji accidentally meets Junko and confuses her with Sanae, prompting Junko to tell him of her mother's fate. They make love, leaving Junko pregnant with his child - Hiroko, who goes on to have a chance encounter with Takada at a hostess club...

激情のトリプル遊戯！三つの肉体がからみ合う気が遠くなる程の歓喜！ 寝室では、友子、博、幸江の裸身がからみあい、悶えと、歓喜が部屋を支配している。その中で友子の声がエコーし、”あしたは、誰を訪ね様かナ…”。

A man plays the bondage show with his wife, has lung disease, in the end of the 19th century. After his wife dies, an ex-military police guy helps him to get stable life without bondage shows. One day, he meets a woman who closely resembles his ex-wife and she wants to be tied by rope for her husband, who is an artist and near to death, to paint. The woman desperately asks the man to tied her up by rope...

Pinku from 1979.

Pink film from 1979

Pink film distributed by Nikkatsu alongside their Roman Porno series of films.

Pink film distributed by Nikkatsu alongside their Roman Porno series of films.

16 year-old girl named Aya is infatuated with the proletarian politics of working-class rebel, Miyata. Her sister Sono believes the boy is not a good influence and she allows her ‘Master’ (a powerful Judge with whom she is a mistress) to arranged for the authorities to kill Miyata. After the boy’s death, Aya tries to take revenge against the Master but gets arrested for attempted murder. Due to the Master’s influence, Aya is sentenced to house arrest… at the Master’s home (!). She is soon raped and introduced to bondage and extreme sexual abuse.

Nikkatsu Roman Porno

The story of a group of artistic people centred around a bar in Shinjuku.

pinku from japan 1977

Nikkatsu Roman Porno

Nikkatsu Roman Porno

Nikkatsu Roman Porno

Nikkatsu Roman Porno

Nikkatsu Roman Porno

Nikkatsu Roman Porno

Nikkatsu Roman Porno

Nikkatsu Roman Porno

Nikkatsu Roman Porno

Nikkatsu Roman Porno

Japanese crime film

Pinku from 1972.

Pinku from 1971.

Pinku from 1971.

邦画界の巨匠・渡辺護×希代の天才脚本家・大和屋竺のコンビによる仁侠時代劇の傑作!!!!!! 女侠客・弁天のお加代の活躍を描いた『男ごろし極悪弁天』(70)の続編。渡辺護は脚本を大和屋竺に依頼し、打ち合わせの席で伊藤大輔や山中貞雄の映画について熱く語ったという。その時代劇への思いの強さに応えて、大和屋は純度の高い娯楽活劇を書いた。 物語は、弁天の刺青のお加代(香取環)と吉祥天の刺青のセイガク(国分二郎)の運命の恋を中心に展開する。遠く離れていても、セイガクはお加代がヤクザと戦うのを背の刺青で感知し、敵の親分のもとへ導くために尺八を吹く。すると、お加代も刺青で尺八の音を聞き取り、天を仰いでふっと微笑む。刺青を介して二つの魂が交感する奇跡を渡辺は鍛えあげた演出力で見事に映像化している。 渡辺護はこの会心の作についてこう語っている。「おれは『尺八弁天』を撮り終えたくなかったんだ……

邦画界の巨匠・渡辺護×希代の天才脚本家・大和屋竺のコンビによる仁侠時代劇の傑作!!!!!! 女侠客・弁天のお加代の活躍を描いた『男ごろし極悪弁天』(70)の続編。渡辺護は脚本を大和屋竺に依頼し、打ち合わせの席で伊藤大輔や山中貞雄の映画について熱く語ったという。その時代劇への思いの強さに応えて、大和屋は純度の高い娯楽活劇を書いた。 物語は、弁天の刺青のお加代(香取環)と吉祥天の刺青のセイガク(国分二郎)の運命の恋を中心に展開する。遠く離れていても、セイガクはお加代がヤクザと戦うのを背の刺青で感知し、敵の親分のもとへ導くために尺八を吹く。すると、お加代も刺青で尺八の音を聞き取り、天を仰いでふっと微笑む。刺青を介して二つの魂が交感する奇跡を渡辺は鍛えあげた演出力で見事に映像化している。 渡辺護はこの会心の作についてこう語っている。「おれは『尺八弁天』を撮り終えたくなかったんだ……

This humorous film provides a fascinating insight into Japan’s pornographic underworld, following a band of itinerant smut-peddlers, consisting of Hisao, his wife and main model Saku, and their partner in crime Tori, as they arrive, penniless, at a hot spring resort and attempt to make their money selling nude photos, staging live sex shows and screening homemade blue movies.

Pinku from 1970.

1969 pink film directed by Mamoru Watanabe.

Japanese crime film

Pinku from 1969.

A young bonze who has been deceived by a woman becomes a pornographic painter. He proceeds to tie up his models, rape them and kill them.

After her husband's suicide, young and beautiful Mitsuko Fuji feels alone and helpless -- until one of her husband's major creditors, Mr. Kito, offers a sympathetic ear and a cancellation of all debts. However, Mitsuko soon learns that Kito's intentions are anything but pure, as she's forced to become his personal concubine. Her only, improbable hope for redemption lies with her one true admirer: Kito's very own son.

After her husband's suicide, young and beautiful Mitsuko Fuji feels alone and helpless -- until one of her husband's major creditors, Mr. Kito, offers a sympathetic ear and a cancellation of all debts. However, Mitsuko soon learns that Kito's intentions are anything but pure, as she's forced to become his personal concubine. Her only, improbable hope for redemption lies with her one true admirer: Kito's very own son.

A woman joins with an insurance clerk in trying to kill her husband and thus secure a big insurance pay-out.

A woman joins with an insurance clerk in trying to kill her husband and thus secure a big insurance pay-out.

Pinku from 1965.

16歳の立子は、社長の父・剛造の財産目当ての後妻・文枝の本性を見抜き父に離婚を勧めるが、文枝と結託する早田の策略で拉致され処女を奪われる。変わり果てた娘を憐み自殺した父の葬儀を終えた立子は、姿を消す。ピンク映画界の巨匠と言われた渡辺護のデビュー作にして自他ともに認める最高傑作。長らくフィルムが行方不明だったが監督没後に16mmフィルム短縮版の上映用プリントが発見された。

16歳の立子は、社長の父・剛造の財産目当ての後妻・文枝の本性を見抜き父に離婚を勧めるが、文枝と結託する早田の策略で拉致され処女を奪われる。変わり果てた娘を憐み自殺した父の葬儀を終えた立子は、姿を消す。ピンク映画界の巨匠と言われた渡辺護のデビュー作にして自他ともに認める最高傑作。長らくフィルムが行方不明だったが監督没後に16mmフィルム短縮版の上映用プリントが発見された。