Pink Ribbon

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 socalled 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 stillprofitable and popular genre through interviews with a variety of behindthescenes 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