Interviews 
PINK CINEMA
The pinku eiga – or Japanese sexploitation – were independent film productions that from the mid-60’s to early 70’s experimented with a new form of filmmaking that blended sex and violence. Inspired by the narrative processes, esthetic and production means of the nouvelle vague, pink films and their makers are inseparable from the history of the Japanese revolutionary left. This film movement, certainly the most extreme that developed at the time in industrialized countries, is nonetheless comparable to the cinema of Pasolini, in Italy, or Fassbinder, in Germany, distilling the same subversive tendencies, the same taste for dreamy atmospheres and a denunciation of "bourgeois morality."
(Michaël Prazan, Les Fanatiques, Paris, Editions du Seuil, 2002, p. 18)
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