One of the significant features and parts of the Japanese filmmaking industry is Pinku Eiga movies. According to various studies, Japanese erotic films with English subtitles make today around half of the volume of production of movies in Japan. The trend has been roughly such since the 1970s.
Together with other “adult-only” content produced in the country, Japanese Grindhouse films with English subtitles are subject to strict legal regulations. The latter changes, however, might completely reform the industry of Japanese Pink films with English subtitles.
What Are The Pinku Eiga Films?
Pinku Eiga films with English subtitles are movies plentifully filled with scenes of intercourse, displaying nudity of both genders, and using characteristic & creative styles of shooting and editing. Japanese Pink movies with English subtitles are usually low-budget pieces of oeuvre, with approximately 1 hour of screen time, during which 10 to 15 scenes of intercourse shall occur by default. Since they are low-budget, they usually have poorly configured plots filled with holes, bad acting, and shot not in pavilions but in real scenery (bars, apartments, houses, streets, etc.).
However, some Pinku Eiga movies with English subtitles are made by larger production companies and are deprived of those faults.
The two biggest significant points that affect the entire industry of Japanese erotic films are the unrestrained imagination of their authors and legal restrictive regulations.
The first makes it possible to shoot Japanese Pink movies with an incredible diversity of stories, even absolutely insane from the point of view of regular morality and common sense.
The second imposes the ban on the public display of genitals in their explicitness and detailing, would they be static or dynamic (moving in the scenes of the intercourse). There are very harsh restrictions, which are not easy to overcome (we’ll talk about them below).
How Legislation Limits The Japanese Grindhouse Movies With English Subtitles
Not before the 1940s-1950s, showing nudity in public was bad in the Japanese mind. People in the country treat it normally because it is a regular part of nature and human essence. But when Japan fell under the occupation of allied troops after losing in WWII, the occupation regime instilled in the hearts and heads of the Japanese that it was bad. That’s how Japan adopted the morality of the West (not instantaneously, though, of course).
The Japanese government introduced the prohibition on the public display of nudity and the most private parts of the human body. Even pubic hair was banned (having even one such hair in the frame could lead to a ban on the entire Japanese Grindhouse movie). The ban touched Japanese erotic movies of all sorts, comic books, novels, and artworks.
So the directors of Japanese Pink films should resort to various complications, approaches, and editing practices to make a film that fully complies with the law. They used such post-production techniques as blurring, posterization, pixelization, fogging, camouflaging, and censor bars of various colors. The production methods of hiding the private parts include covering them with objects, other people between the camera and the nude part, and utilizing various opaque and translucent objects that hide or blur the resulting image. They also used angles, shadow & light to make the conceived movie that would comply with the law yet cater to the desires and fantasies of the audiences.
How Legislation About Japanese Erotic Movies With English Subtitles Changes Now
The legislative landscape has been actively changing since the first Japanese Grindhouse films appeared on screens in the early 1960s. Many legal court cases were opened to prosecute those filmmakers and artists who dared to show “too much”.
The landscape was also largely self-regulating because many organizations established internal rules on the boundaries of artworks of all industries (in the film industry, too). That forced all the makers to periodically change their creative approaches and become more inventive not to break the legal and industrial rules yet, to still make a product that would be interesting and popular among consumers.
Finally, in June 2022, the Japanese government completely lifted the country’s restrictions on “adult explicit content,” legalizing it. The new wave of Japanese erotic movies with English subtitles shall come, which will no longer have to blur the most “interesting” parts.
While we’re waiting for the appearance of such new films with great anticipation, we now offer you to become acquainted with our extensive catalog of Japanese erotic movies that is being actively replenished to cater to broader audiences. View these films on our website now and tell us in the comments what other pieces of artwork you would love to view, so we work on adding them.
