A high school girl is recruited by a photographer to be a model for a photo book. Thinking that she can make lots of money she agrees. He starts innocently enough but slowly convinces her to pose for more explicit shots.
Direction
Araki blurring his own photography with fiction
Cinematography
Grainy 16mm captures sleazy authenticity
Director
Nobuyoshi Araki
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Araki shot this between his infamous 'Sentimental Journey' honeymoon photos and his wife's death, making its obsession with young female bodies even more queasily autobiographical.
This quietly launched the 'pink film' subgenre of pseudo-artistic softcore that dominated Japanese independent cinema throughout the 1980s.
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