Fantastic in Pink
One retrospective at this year's Fantastic Fest that has fest director Tim League all giddy is their showcase of Japanese "Pink" films - Japan's version of soft core porn. The genre blossomed in the '60s and '70s as a way for filmmakers to get a budget and distribution. All they had to have was 35 minutes of sex on screen. The rest was up to them.
"They aren't like American soft core, with is kinda a joke. Some of these are real movies. Porn is an afterthought," said League.
One film he's looking forward to screening - "The Glamorous Life of Sachiko Hanai." What's it about?
At a café a woman is involved in an argument and shot in the head. Rather than killing her, the lodged bullet gives her extraordinary mental powers. And in her pocket she finds a cloned copy of George W. Bush's finger, which the North Koreans want for their nuclear holocaust plans.
Oh, and she's a call girl. So every ten minutes she has sex.
Michael Jones is the film festival editor at Variety.com. 
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