Akira Mori

Documentary filmmaker Kenjiro Fujii takes a look at the history of a distinctly Japanese brand of softcore pornography in this extensive examination of the "pinku eiga" genre (ピンク映画 Pinku eiga or Pinkeiga). For more than 40 years, so-called "pink" films have served as both a key source of revenue for the Japanese film industry as well as a launching pad for the careers of such mainstream filmmakers as Kiyoshi Kurosawa. After providing a detailed history of the still-profitable and popular genre through interviews with a variety of behind-the-scenes players and clips from such classic pink films as Fish Bait Boobies, director Fujii shifts his focus to the production of an upcoming pink film to offer a glimpse into the creative and stylistic evolution of the genre.

Kazuyo, who possesses a slightly stronger-than-average spiritual intuition, had been working as a fortune teller in Tokyo; however, she fled to a rural town with her lazy boyfriend, Ichiro, to escape the debt collectors after he racked up a massive debt. While standing under a waterfall, Kazuyo lost her clothes and bag to the current, forcing her to don a shrine maiden’s robe that Ichiro had stolen. Tominaga, a prominent local figure who happened to pass by, fell instantly in love with Kazuyo in her shrine maiden attire; upon learning she was a psychic, he suggested she set up a spiritual fortune-telling business in the detached building of his estate...