In the seventies Nikkatsu, one of Japan’s major film studios, successfully dipped their toes in the sexploitation market. Their films were known as Roman Porno, distinguishable from the regular pinku eiga of the time by their higher budgets and the fact that directors were given full artistic freedom - as long as they included sex or nudity in the films roughly every ten minutes. A recent attempt to reboot the series saw modern directors given the same brief and here’s Sion Sono pushing things to the absolute limit with an expressionist tirade on the illusion of freedom, the hypocrisy of pornography and a damning indignation of the role of women in Japanese society, with some sex or nudity happening roughly every ten minutes.
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