The softcore Japanese sex film – known globally as Pink Film (or Pink Eiga) – is a curious beast, unlike the erotica of anywhere else in the world. While some of this is down to the curious rules of Japanese censorship – no genitalia and until recently no public hair, but all manner of kinky perversion, body fluids and violence allowed – that can’t be the whole reason why these films are so weird. After all, Britain laboured under similar sexual restraints until 2000 and rarely produced anything as whacked out as some of these films. No, beyond the inability to show hardcore, there’s something very, very strange about a lot of Japanese smut. The filmmakers seemed to take advantage of the fact that as long as the films contained the required amount of nudity and simulated sex, then anything went – the sex brought in the cash and the weirdness brought in a wider cult audience. And at around 60 minutes long each, the films rarely overstay their welcome.
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