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Pinku eiga (ピンク映画, lit. "pink film") is a style of Japanese softcore pornographic films that originated in the early 1960s and are still being produced. The term pinku eiga was coined by journalist Minoru Murai. Pink films should be distinguished from adult videos and non-Japanese sexploitation films.

Subgenres produced by Nikkatsu studios include the early (starting in 1971) Roman Porno (short for Romantic Pornography) pink films with well known directors, and an ultra-violent rape-themed subgenre also from the 1970s called Violent Pink. Toei studios' genre of erotic sex-and-violence films is termed Toei's Pinky Violence. Unlike Nikkatsu's pink films, most of Toei's pink films were not actually centered on eroticism itself, but used frequent and gratuitous nudity, along with violent action scenes, and have some artistic merit. Examples of Toei's films include Shunya Ito's Sasori (lit. scorpion) series of women in prison films (Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion (1972), Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 (1972), Female Prisoner Scorpion: Beast Stable (1973)) based on Toru Shinohara's manga and starring Meiko Kaji, who ironically left Nikkatsu Studios to distance herself from pink films and has only one erotic scene in the series. After first Ito and then Kaji left the project, the series rapidly deteriorated in artistic quality and focused more on sex and violence.

While some directors have used pink films as a steppingstone for their careers, others work exclusively with the genre. Some notable directors of pink films include:

Kurosawa Kiyoshi
Masayuki Suo
Yojiro Takita
Yoshimitsu Morita
Takechi Tetsuji
Wakamatsu Koji
Ryuichi Hiroki
Takashi Ishii
Toshiharu Ikeda
Takahisa Zeze

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