Pink thrills: Japanese sex movies go global While softcore pornography is associated with low-budget, lowbrow fun, Japanese classics are now sweeping film festivals ...

For the past 50 years, the world of Japanese pink eiga, or pink films, has taken movie fans on a wild ride through crime, drama and violence — with liberal doses of sex thrown in for good measure. The ...

Tokyo: How Softcore Erotica Sustained Japan’s Film Industry and Nurtured Some Leading Directors Celebrated filmmakers to have emerged from Pink Eiga genre include Oscar-winner Yojiro Takita ...

Yuji Tajiri and Shinji Imaoka were two of the “Seven Lucky Gods of Pink” — a group of young pinku eiga (erotic film) directors who were hailed as the genre’s hope after they rose to ...

Japanese films from the 1960s that used erotic themes as allegories for left-wing political themes -- the Pinku Eiga, or Pink Film -- will be the focus of a special tribute at next month's 50th ...

This short documentary explains the unique Japanese film genre of Pink Films (or: Pinku Eiga, as they're called in Japan) - a short-form, independently produced, Japanese erotic movie.

The subtitle of this book is “The Complete History of Japanese Sex Cinema” and boy, is that accurate. Former Tokyo resident and current contributor to the specialty film website MidnightEye, Jasper ...

Roughly the equivalent of the soft-core porn flicks that populate American late-night cable, but filtered through a distinctly Japanese sensibility, "pink" movies have been a staple of Japan's ...