Pinku Eiga

[Stephen Cremin]

Just to add that the term "pink eiga" within the industry is slowly 
becoming to specifically mean the type of sex film shot over five days 
on a budget of approximately US$20,000.  So a film such as Ian Kerkhof's 
"Shabondama Elegy", which recently screened in Rotterdam, wouldn't 
qualify to some as a "pink eiga" ... not for its hardcore sex but for 
the size of its budget and relatively long shooting period: two weeks.  
Incidentally, the French director of "Carne" was jealous that Kerkhof 
had made the first "pink eiga" by a foreigner and would like to come to 
Japan to put his own stamp on Japanese film history.

Incidentally, does anybody have contact details for Fukuma Kenji, author 
of the definitive book on "pink eiga", "Pink Nouvell Vague", who is 
apparently in Wales on a teacher exchange programme?

Stephen Cremin
The Asian Film Library
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