Pinku eiga

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Pinku eiga ( Japanese ピ ン ク 映 画 , German "pink film") is a Japanese film genre between erotic and art films that has produced more than 5000 works since the 1960s.

history

The term Pinku eiga was coined in 1963 by the journalist Minoru Murai. In the 1970s, Pinku Eigas made up about half of Japanese film production. Due to the explicit representation of sexuality of all kinds, which can best be compared with Western softcore films, Pinku Eigas, in contrast, usually have an independent framework, whose function goes beyond the coherent stringing together of sex scenes. While the quality of many of the one-hour films that can be shot on 35 mm within a week is only moderate, many works are characterized by a mixture of sex and artistic standards or avant-garde implementation, which is rare in Western cinema.

The feminist pornography movement radiated from the United States to Japan. Sachi Hamano was the first female director to shoot Pinku eiga. She directed over 300 such films in the 1980s and 1990s, bringing female sexual power and agency to the screen. In doing so, she also questioned the portrayal of women as sex objects that should only fulfill male fantasies.

Subgenres

  • Roman Porno (Abbreviation for Romantic Pornography ), from 1971
  • Pinky Violence (action film with elements of Pinku eiga ), from 1970
  • Violent Pink (focus on particularly violent portrayals of rape), from 1976
  • Rose Films (focus on gay sexual activity), from 1983

Films (selection)

The following films are not pink films in the narrower sense due to formal criteria (exceeding the length limit and budget), but have become well known outside of Japan precisely because of their quality:

Directors

actor

literature

  • Marcus Stiglegger : The revolt of the flesh under the red sun . Notes on Pinku Eiga, Roman Porno & Ero Guro. Splatting Image # 76, December 2008.
  • Jasper Sharp: Behind the Pink Curtain. The Complete History of Japanese Sex Cinema . Fab Press, Guildford 2008, ISBN 978-1-903254-54-7

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Constance Penley, Celine Parreñas Shimizu, Mireille Miller-Young, Tristan Taormino: Feminist Porn. The politics of producing pleasure. In: Kristin Lené Hole, Dijana Jelača, E. Ann Kaplan, Patrice Petro (eds.): The Routledge Companion to Cinema and Gender . Routledge, London, New York 2017, ISBN 978-1-138-92495-6 , pp. 155-163, p. 160 .