Japan Film Society presents: PINK EIGA a one night screening event of 2 noteable films from the Japanese Pink Eiga genre.
TIME-June 25, Friday
-7:00pm Admission starts
-7:30pm Screening start (please do not arrive late)
-Refreshments available upstairs
ADMISSION CHARGE $8 (must be 18 or over)
RSVPSend e-mail to
[email protected] FILMS1. Deep Contact (Comedy and drama)
2. Yoake no Ushi (Drama)
both films are rated
R Due to mature content, admission will be restricted to persons 18 years and older.
ABOUT THE FILMS:Goto Daisuke’s
Yoake no Ushi tells the story of a young widow who, in a desperate attempt to maintain the sanity of her elderly father-in-law, adopts the place of his long-dead prized cow. The film was the Official Selection of the 2008 Austin Fantastic Film Festival and was listed by the British review site
DVDTimes.co.uk as “a film of bittersweet sentiments, which credibly deals with loneliness, greed and the coming to terms with old age, [with a] strength in never overplaying these sentiments, leaving the film to offer subtle depictions of various human emotions…helped out in no small part by a terrific ensemble who play their roles succinctly.”
This will be followed by Kitazawa Yukio’s lighthearted
Deep Contact; a sci-fi comedy about a man caught up in a bizarre attempt to save the world through a rather unique form of psychokinesis.
ABOUT PINK EIGA:
Pink Eiga (ãƒ”ãƒ³ã‚¯æ˜ ç”»,
Pinku Eiga or Pink Film) is a style of Japanese erotic theatrical film that first appeared in the early 1960s. In the 1970s, several of Japan's major studios began to take over production as potboiler pictures to boost revenue during the decade’s decline in domestic theatrical box office receipts; and with the resulting access to higher production values and talent, many of these ended up as critical and popular successes. Though the appearance of hardcore AV (adult video) took away most of the pink film audience in the 1980s, films in this genre are still produced today and have won numerous international cinema awards.
“Erotic or not, many of these films were the starting points for notable modern Japanese Directors and the place where they honed their skills before entering the mainstream,” says JFS Communications Director Kai Saari. “Takita Yojiro, Director of the 2009 Academy Award™-winning film
Okuribito (
Departures), was at one time a prolific Pink Eiga filmmaker, and watching his early works helps immensely toward a deeper appreciation of his current style and motifs.”
ABOUT THE JAPAN FILM SOCIETY:The Japan Film Society is a non-profit organization founded to support the art of Japanese film and broaden its exposure among the audiences in the US. It is an all-volunteer network of artists, business people, and film lovers who seek out Japanese films from every genre, as well as showcase the work of Japanese, Japanese American and Japanese-inspired filmmakers.
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