Flesh Market

 ( 1962 Films ) 

Nikutai no Ichiba is a 1962 Japanese film directed by Satoru Kobayashi and starring Tamaki Katori. It is generally recognized as the first movie in the pink film genre.

Thomas Weisser (1998). 9781889288529, Vital Books : Asian Cult Cinema Publications. . ISBN 9781889288529

Flesh Market opened at the Ueno Okura Theater in Tokyo, which was operated by the film's production company OP Eiga, on February 27, 1962. Two days after the film opened, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police stopped the film's showing and confiscated all the prints and negatives. According to an interview with Kinya Ogawa, the film's Chief Assistant Director, the staff managed to put together a new version from rushes and extra footage, removing some of the more offensive scenes. The new film was immediately profitable probably because of the Streisand effect. A new term, eroduction, was invented to describe this emerging genre of film which later became known as pink film

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Plot Only a 21-minute fragment remains of the original film which ran 49 minutes. From written accounts of the film, it concerned a young girl (played by Tamaki Katori) who is captured by criminals while investigating the mysterious suicide of her sister in Tokyo.

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Cast

• Tamaki Katori
• Hiroshi Asami
• Shirō Enami
• Kyōko Ōgimachi
• Tokiko Hisaki

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See also

• List of incomplete or partially lost films

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External links

Categories: 1962 Films, Pink Films, Op Eiga Films, 1960s Pornographic Films, Lost Japanese Films, 1960s Lost Films, Films Set In Tokyo, 1960s Japanese Films

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