<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">PLEASE SHARE AND REPOST EVERYWHERE!</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">The Kinema Club editorial collective presents this book, the second edited collection published by Kinema Club. Please share with your librarians, who can put the ebook in their collections at no cost.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">A paper version is available through print on demand. 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For foreign orders, please contact <a href="mailto:amnornes@umich.edu">amnornes@umich.edu</a>.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><font face="Helvetica"><span style="font-size: 16px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><a href="http://kinemaclub.org/pink-book-japanese-eroduction-and-its-contexts">http://kinemaclub.org/pink-book-japanese-eroduction-and-its-contexts</a></span></font></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><br></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica;"><br></p><div class="block block-system block-main block-system-main odd block-without-title" id="block-system-main" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="block-inner clearfix" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit;"><div class="content clearfix" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit;"><article about="/pink-book-japanese-eroduction-and-its-contexts" typeof="sioc:Item foaf:Document" class="node node-publication node-promoted node-published node-not-sticky author-14 odd clearfix" id="node-publication-236" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit;"><div class="content clearfix" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit;"><div class="field field-name-field-book-cover field-type-image field-label-hidden" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit;"><div class="field-items" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit;"><div class="field-item even" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://kinemaclub.org/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/pink_cover_1.jpg" width="338" height="480" alt="" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: bottom; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; image-rendering: optimizequality;"></span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit;"><div class="field-items" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit;"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Pink Book<br>The Japanese Eroduction and Its Contexts</strong></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Edited by Abé Mark Nornes</strong></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit;"><em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: inherit; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">With essays by Roland Domenig, Kimata Kimihiko, Kirsten Cather, Yuriko Furuhata, Julian Stringer, Andrew Grossman, Sharon Hayashi, Miryam Sas, Michael Arnold, Peter Alilunas and Donald Richie. Also features a fascinating collection of photographs from Tsuda Ichiro’s The Location.</em></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Free Electronic Versions (PDF and ePub):</strong></p><p class="rteindent1" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 2.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit;"><a href="http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/107423" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: none; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; text-decoration: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/107423</font></a></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Paper Version:</strong></p><p class="rteindent1" style="margin: 0px 0px 1em 2.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A print-to-order paper version is available for purchase. Send a $25 check and a USPS self-addressed Priority Mail label to Irhe Sohn, Department of Screen Arts and Cultures, University of Michigan, 6348 North Quad, 105 S. State Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1285.<span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit;"></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Japanese eroduction, known locally as the Pink Film (pinku eiga), stands out among its soft-core cousins in other parts of the world for its scale, intimate relationship to the mainstream industry, and its occasional ambition. Pink films are ultra-low budget, soft-core, 35mm narrative feature films. They emerged in the early 1960s and quickly became a significant portion of Japan’s annual output (between 100 and 700 films a year), showing triple bills in their own network of national theater chains. Their success was accomplished in the vacuum left by the crumbling studio system. Today, the industry is itself in its death throes, unable to compete with the more explicit home video market known as AV. Triple bills in air conditioned comfort can no longer compete with the privacy of home. Now is an opportune time to examine the history of the Pink Film, now on the cusp of its disappearance.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Words of praise for The Pink Book:</strong></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Just as Pink Film was a challenge to fixed ideas about Japanese cinema, being so central to the development of contemporary Japanese film yet existing on the denigrated margins of the movie world, The Pink Book, while containing work by top scholars, is a challenge to academic Japanese cinema studies. It dares scholarship to explore ways to understand the intersections between sex, gender, politics, industry, and history without resorting to safe categories like “art film” or “pop culture”. An independent production like its subject matter, it breaks boundaries with its breadth and diversity, and offers models for where film studies can go.</span></p><p class="rteright" style="text-align: start; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">—Aaron Gerow, Yale University</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This strange collection of brains has drawn an untouchable picture of the Pink Cinema. It is not simply a record of their wanderings around the utter darkness of the Japanese soft core sex film world. It is a story—for any reader—more pleasurable than a child’s secret treasure box!</span></p><p class="rteright" style="text-align: start; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">—Adachi Masao, director</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Japanese cinema has an unusual history of sexual representation. Where standard Hollywood style kisses were long forbidden in Japanese cinema until the U.S. Occupation, in the 60’s and 70’s a particular type of sex film flourished. Analogous to, but much more stylistically adventurous and widespread than, the American genre of “sexploitation”, Pink Films were differentiated from “Blue” movies by the absence of hard-core sexual action. But beyond that limitation, almost anything was possible in these widescreen, feature length, 35mm treasures where many a Japanese director learned his or her craft. The fascinating The Pink Book is for anyone who has pondered the odd prohibitions and permissions of Japanese cinema.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">—Linda Williams, UC Berkeley<br></span></p></div></div></div></div></article></div></div></div></body></html>