The series Keiko Sato: Pinku Maverick starts on Mubi on March 3, 2021 in many countries.Above: Blue Film WomanThese films, “Pink Cinema,” are anything but easy to digest; women are violently abused and objectified, sex is often un-consensual or underaged, murder, torture, suicide and castration are commonplace, and incest is an assumed normality. It’s fair to say that the appeal of these films, for many modern-day audiences, is not necessarily clear. So why are these films being restored and rewatched now?The long-debated question “is pornography essentially harmful to women?” is brought to the fore in these films and lingers on each drawn-out sexual violence scene. Amia Srinivasan, reflecting on this question with reference to Nancy Bauer’s essay on pornography, notes that “to fully understand this question, we need to attend more carefully to the particularities of pornography and the role it plays not just in culture generally but...
- 3/9/2021
- MUBI
Pinku-eiga, usually full of misogynistic scenes and almost painful for the viewer’s eyes exploitation, doesn’t seem to have much in common with feminism. Unless we talk about Masao Adachi and his “Gushing Prayer” – an untypical pinku-eiga film, which is still appearing in programs of the most important festivals like Berlinale or International Film Festival Rotterdam.
The early 70s. Japan has just come through 1968 and radicalized students protests. Yasuko, Yoichi, Koichi and Bill are teenagers, who started their own fight against adulthood and its doubtful morality by, as they say, “beating sex”. When Yasuko confesses that she slept with their teacher, her peers unanimously accuse her of breaking their secret rule and call her “a prostitute”. As if that was not enough, Yasuko turns out to be pregnant, which bothers her friends even more. These unexpected circumstances trigger off the teenagers, who decide to examine the...
The early 70s. Japan has just come through 1968 and radicalized students protests. Yasuko, Yoichi, Koichi and Bill are teenagers, who started their own fight against adulthood and its doubtful morality by, as they say, “beating sex”. When Yasuko confesses that she slept with their teacher, her peers unanimously accuse her of breaking their secret rule and call her “a prostitute”. As if that was not enough, Yasuko turns out to be pregnant, which bothers her friends even more. These unexpected circumstances trigger off the teenagers, who decide to examine the...
- 3/11/2020
- by Ina Karpinska
- AsianMoviePulse
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