Behind The Pink Curtain: The Complete History of Japanese Sex Cinema - Softcover

Jasper Sharp

Softcover

ISBN 10: 190325454X ISBN 13: 9781903254547

Publisher: Fab Press Limited, 2008

Synopsis

Takes the reader on a wild joy ride deep into the hinterlands of Japanese culture, society and radical politics by way of the weird and wonderful world of the country's distinctive sex film movements. Focusing on one of the most notorious secrets of Japanese filmmaking, the erotic Pink Film (or pinku eiga) genre, Behind the Pink Curtain features numerous interviews with leading figures in the field and offers an exhaustive, yet colourful, trawl through Japan's most vibrant and prolific film sector.

About this title

Review:

"All you need to know about the cutting edge of Japanese film - animated, inventive and imaginative." -- Donald Richie

About the Author:

Jasper Sharp is the co-editor of the Japanese film website Midnight Eye and has curated for London's Raindance Film Festival and acted as an advisor for the Japan Foundation UK's annual touring season since 2005. His critically-acclaimed book The Midnight Eye Guide to New Japanese Film, joint-written with FAB Press author Tom Mes (Agitator: The Cinema of Takashi Miike and Iron Man: The Cinema of Shinya Tsukamoto), was published in 2003.

About this edition

• Publisher: Fab Press Limited
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 190325454X
• ISBN 13: 9781903254547
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256