pinku films

[Dick Stegewerns & Ingeborg Hansen]

Dear Graham,

As a regular translator and interpreter for the Rotterdam Film Festival, I
happened to do the English subtitles for Sato Toshiki's [Tandem] and I would
not be all that surprised if these ended up on the video version as well.
Nevertheless, I am afraid that I can not recommend the film. There have been
a few enthousiastic reviews of this film, but my feeling is that this rather
means that it is fairly interesting within its genre. Although the pink
cinema offers young Japanese directors a training school, the genre usually
is too limited (in the sense of budget, actors, story, etc) to produce
really good films. The Rotterdam Film Festival very admirably tries to show
us each year that notwithstanding the harsh circumstances Japanese cinema is
still alive and kicking, but especially in the year when it presented the
pink movie special the audience was clearly not convinced.

Best regards,

Dick Stegewerns   
Lecturer, Osaka Sangyo Daigaku


> I haven't seen Dream of Garuda, as it looked like it was pretty tacky but if
> anyone has any comments on Tandem I'd appreciate hearing them. 


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