Photo courtesy of Third Window Films. ©Source: Third Window Films press release Special Thanks to Adam Torel and Claire Marty UK distributor Third Window Films is pleased to announce the release of PINK FILMS VOL 3 & 4, the latest in their Dual-Format DVD/Blu-ray series of newly restored Japanese pink films from the 1960s through the 1980s. The set, which includes the films ABNORMAL FAMILY and BLUE FILM WOMAN plus the extra PINK THRILLS: Jasper Sharp on Pink Eiga, a 35 minute video essay on pink cinema, will be available May 25, 2020. ABNORMAL FAMILY (??????????, Hentai Kazoku Aniki no Yome-san, 1984) Directed by Masayuki Suo 63 minutes The debut film of the director of the international hit comedy SHALL WE DANCE (1996) follows the Mamiya family after the latest arrival of the voluptuous new bride of over-sexed eldest son Kôichi. Kazuo sees his new sister-in-law as a source of release from study stress, while his sister Akiko, after donning her Office Lady uniform heads straight to a workplace that offers much more in the way of financial incentive. Suo’s only ever pink film is a bawdy pastiche of the works of Ozu Yasujirô, presenting this far-from-typical family through idiosyncratic editing and compositional.
Photo courtesy of Third Window Films. © 2018 KOKUEI/RAPID EYE MOVIES
Photo courtesy of Third Window Films. © 2018 KOKUEI/RAPID EYE MOVIES
Photo courtesy of Third Window Films. © 2018 KOKUEI/RAPID EYE MOVIES
Photo courtesy of Third Window Films. ©KOKUEI/RAPID EYE MOVIESBLUE FILM WOMAN (?????????, Bur?firumu no Onna, 1969) Directed by Kan Mukai 78 minutes BLUE FILM WOMAN is a feverish mishmash of horror, blackmail sexploitation and trippy nightclub sequences revolving around the daughter of a stockbroker who is brought to his knees by an unexpected financial crash. In order to stave off bankruptcy, he offers up his wife to his sleazy, reptilian creditor Uchiyama who, after prodding and pawing over her, locks her up in the shed at the bottom of the garden where his mentally challenged son Hiroshi lurks in the attic. She manages to escape from his clutches in the nick of time, only to be mown down by a passing car. With her father now reduced to a gibbering wreck, it is left to daughter Mariko to seek revenge. Rising from her job as a nightclub go-go dancer to a high-class call girl catering for prosperous businessmen, Mariko deploys all the tools of her trade to bring down those responsible for her family’s demise.
Photo courtesy of Third Window Films. ©KOKUEI/RAPID EYE MOVIESSpecifications Cat No. TWFBD049 Region: B/2 Number of Discs: 2 RRP: £19.99 (Approximately $24.59 US) Release Date: May 25, 2020 Rating: 18 Audio: Japanese Subtitles: English and German
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