DVD review of Female Yakuza Tale: Inquisition & Torture - DVD Town

DVD review of Female Yakuza Tale: Inquisition & Torture - DVD Town: "To counter the continued decline in cinema attendance throughout the 1960’s due to the rapidly emerging popularity of television, some independent Japanese film studios decided to create a new genre of film that they hoped would help jumpstart the industry. Introduced sometime in the early 60’s, these films became known as pinku eiga or pink films, a form of softcore pornographic films. Unlike its hardcore Western counterpart, these pink films were intended for theatrical release and have to conform to strict Japanese screen censorship laws, which prohibits the depiction of genitilia and pronounced sexual activity. Using the genre’s required sex scenes as a form of titillation may be its primary objective but as this genre grew, it eventually matured into adding some sort of character and story development as well. In any case, even offering big helpings of nudity and sex is sometimes not enough to lure an audience back. To further spice things up, gore and violence was later added into the mix, which, by most account, seems like a natural progression for these types of exploitation films.