Blue Film Woman
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | ブ ル ー フ ィ ル ム の 女 |
| Country of production | Japan |
| Publishing year | 1969 |
| length | 80 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Kan Mukai |
| script | Yutaka So |
| production | Daisuke Asakura |
Blue Film Woman (ブ ル ー フ ィ ル ム の 女, Burū firumu no onna , "The woman of the blue film") is a Japanese film released in 1969 thatbelongs tothe " Pinku eiga " genre. The director was Kan Mukai.
action
When his stock market investments fail, a man finds himself in serious debt to a lustful loan shark named Uchiyama. The husband's wife messes up at Uchiyama to give the husband time to pay off the debt. After Uchiyama used the woman to accompany his mentally handicapped son, she was hit by a car and her husband became desperate and ill. Her daughter works as a nightclub dancer and intends to save the money on the debt. After her father's suicide, the girl decides to take revenge.
occupation
- Mitsugu Fujii
- Ichirō Furuoka
- Miki Hashimoto
- Keisuke Kawahigashi
- Rika Koyanagi
- Reo Mizumori
- Kumi Ōsugi
- Shūsuke Sone
- Takako Uchida
backgrounds
Since 3.5 million yen was the usual budget for works in the "Pinku eiga" genre, continuous color production in the 1960s was beyond the possibilities of directors. Some films were partially shot in color, with color used only for certain scenes. This practice continued until Nikkatsu took over the genre in 1971 with his "Roman Porno" (short for "Romantic Pornography") series. Blue Film Woman was one of the first “Pinku eiga” films to be shot entirely in color.
Jasper Sharp writes that director Mukai's use of color in this film “makes up for the lack of speed by exploding into those over-saturated colors from the first frame ... flooded with prismatic dabs of mostly red and blue and silhouettes of nape feminine Bodies - not dissimilar to a more lysergic acid-inspired version of a Bond opening credits. ”That style is carried on, and Sharp notes that the film is, in sum, a“ highly stylized work ”.
Availability and reviews
Blue Film Woman is one of the few “Pinku eiga” films from this period that survived in 35mm format. In September 2008 it was premiered as part of the "Fantastic Fest" in Austin (Texas) in the United States, in the form of a newly made film copy. Following the screening, twitchfilm.net judged it was "an excellent example of an early pinku eiga [movie] that deserves to be seen." It premiered in Canada at the FanTasia International Film Festival. It was also screened at the 15th International Thessaloniki Film Festival .
Web links
- Blue film Woman in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Blue Film Woman . www.fantasiafestival.com. Retrieved July 22, 2009.
- Rodney Perkins: BEHIND THE PINK CURTAIN Retrospective: Kan Mukai's BLUE FILM WOMAN . twitchfilm.net. September 23, 2008. Retrieved July 22, 2009.
- ブ ル ー フ ィ ル ム の 女 (1969) ( Japanese ) allcinema.net. Retrieved July 22, 2009.
- ブ ル ー フ ィ ル ム の 女 ( Japanese ) Japanese Movie Database. Retrieved July 22, 2009.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Johnny "Jasper" Sharp: Behind the Pink Curtain: The Complete History of Japanese Sex Cinema . FAB Press, Guildford 2008, ISBN 978-1-903254-54-7 , pp. 62, 218, 351 .
- ↑ a b Blue Film Woman . www.fantasiafestival.com. Retrieved July 22, 2009.
- ↑ a b c Rodney Perkins: BEHIND THE PINK CURTAIN Retrospective: Kan Mukai's BLUE FILM WOMAN . twitchfilm.net. September 23, 2008. Archived from the original on March 17, 2009. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 22, 2009.
- ↑ Jasper Sharp: Pink thrills: Japanese sex movies go global . The Japan Times . Retrieved June 21, 2009.
- ↑ Pinku eiga: Beyond Pink; Blue Film Woman / Kan Mukai . International Thessaloniki Film Festival . Retrieved February 25, 2010.
