The melodramatic story of a pink crew’s tragi-comedic adventures on location. A fictionalized adaptation of set photographer Ichiro Tsuda's 1980 book The Location (Za Rokēshon), an illustrated 229-page document about the cameraman’s experiences with pink cast and crew on the sets of several films produced in the late 1970's.
Direction
Morisaki walks the razor's edge between satire and genuine pathos
Acting
Nishida anchors the chaos with heartbreaking commitment
Cinematography
Meta-layers: shooting the shooting of exploitation cinema
Director
Azuma Morisaki
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Pink films dominated 1970s Japanese cinema as studio systems collapsed, creating weird auteur conditions for directors like Suzuki and Imamura.
Tsuda's original book photographed actual productions; Morisaki recreates specific sets from his documentation.
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