When you fight the past, the past fights back.

Until very recently you wouldn’t find film director Sachi Hamano in the reference books: Japan’s mainstream film industry has historically been more than a little reluctant to allow women behind the ...

LONDON — Japanese films from the 1960s that used erotic themes as allegories for left-wing political themes — the Pinku Eiga, or Pink Film — will be the focus of a special tribute at next month’s 50th ...

Hisayasu Sato is a Japanese exploitation film director. He has worked prolifically in the pinku eiga genre. He is known for his "sledgehammer" filmmaking style, and using his exploitation career to ...