Probably the source of one of the most characteristic images of Roman Porno (the one featured) here, “The Oldest Profession (aka Confidential Report: Sex Market or Secret Chronicle: She Beast Market), is among the most distinctive titles of the category, was restored in 2021 by Nikkatsu, screened in Venice in 2022 and is now finding its way in Camera Japan.
The Oldest Profession is screening at Camera Japan
It’s the height of summer in Kamagasaki, home to Tsutenkaku Tower, which overlooks Osaka. 19-year-old Tome quarrels with the proprietress of a small restaurant that has been arranging her sex services, striking out on her own. Life for a lonely prostitute, however, is not easy, and even more for Tome, who has to live with her mother, also a sex worker who is jealous of her, and her mentally handicapped younger brother, Saneo, who is looking towards her to satisfy his sexual needs,...
The Oldest Profession is screening at Camera Japan
It’s the height of summer in Kamagasaki, home to Tsutenkaku Tower, which overlooks Osaka. 19-year-old Tome quarrels with the proprietress of a small restaurant that has been arranging her sex services, striking out on her own. Life for a lonely prostitute, however, is not easy, and even more for Tome, who has to live with her mother, also a sex worker who is jealous of her, and her mentally handicapped younger brother, Saneo, who is looking towards her to satisfy his sexual needs,...
- 9/23/2023
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Yutaka Ikejima was born on March 30, 1948. He studied Literature at Waseda University. He first entered the entertainment business in the late 1970s as an actor with Shuji Terayama’s theatrical group Tenjō Sajiki. His film debut was in the 1981 Genji Nakamura pink film Semi Documentary: Housewife Prostitution Team aka Document Porno: Married Woman Prostitution Techniques. In contrast to his stage career, in his screen work, Ikejima has stayed in the erotic genres.Between 1981 and 1988 he appeared in over 500 softcore pink films, working for such directors as Hisayasu Satō, Yōjirō Takita and Ryūichi Hiroki. Ikejima appeared in Satō’s gay-themed “Temptation of the Mask” (1987), a film significant for joining three of the “Four Devils” or “Four Heavenly Kings of Pink” in one work. Though most-awarded and recognized as a director, Ikejima has continued acting to the present day.
He began his directorial career in 1988, at first working mainly in AVs (adult...
He began his directorial career in 1988, at first working mainly in AVs (adult...
- 5/12/2020
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Close-Up is a feature that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Akihiko Shiota's Wet Woman in the Wind (2016), which is receiving an exclusive global online premiere on Mubi, is showing from November 24 - December 24, 2017 as a Special Discovery.Much like Hollywood, the Japanese film industry goes to the well as often as possible once it hits a lucky strike. Such was the case with the so-called Roman Porno films of the 1970s, an infamous genre of sexploitation primarily identified with Japan’s oldest major studio, Nikkatsu. Financial trouble necessitated a popular, inexpensive product, and these softcore numbers were just the ticket. This may have been the studio where Kenji Mizoguchi and Shohei Imamura made films early in their careers, but by 1971 the Roman Porno factory was in full swing, producing quick, cheap, titillating product for an audience hungry for female toplessness and a great deal of convulsive thrusting.
- 11/23/2017
- MUBI
Okay, a little bit of history. In the early 1970’s, recognizing that the Japanese film industry was changing and that their previous formulae for generating hit films was no longer cutting it, Nikkatsu Studios - Japan’s oldest film production house - switched their entire studio over to producing nothing but a new genre of picture they labeled Roman Porno films. Highly sexual - though nowhere close to what we’d consider hard core pornography - these titles actually drew a fair amount of ‘legitimate’ talent to them thanks to the high levels of freedom the studio gave their creators and the results were often some incredibly well made and unusual pictures.
Nikkatsu’s Roman Porno output has been largely unseen in the west, known only to film cultists and tape traders for years but that’s about to change with news that cult DVD distributor Mondo Macabro have picked...
Nikkatsu’s Roman Porno output has been largely unseen in the west, known only to film cultists and tape traders for years but that’s about to change with news that cult DVD distributor Mondo Macabro have picked...
- 7/20/2008
- by Todd Brown
- Screen Anarchy
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