PINKY VIOLENCE PROFILE: Japanese Bad Girl Cinema 1965-1980 (Cult Movie Profiles)

At the dawn of the 1970s, Japanese film company Toei were at the forefront of forging a new form of exploitation cinema. Drawing together already popular movie threads of action, crime, sex, and female delinquency, Toei wove them into a new film fabric now known as “pinky violence”. With bloody gang battles, cat-fights, nudity, torture, rape and revenge, pinky violence movies were populated by a whole range of bad girl – or sukeban – icons. Female gamblers and yakuza molls, girl gang bosses and their minions, deadly women who killed by blade, bare hands or blazing guns, depraved nuns, delinquent schoolgirls, and female prisoners were the doyens of this cinematic realm, a chaotic on-screen explosion of blood, rage and naked tattooed flesh.PINKY VIOLENCE PROFILE is a profusely illustrated history of this film phenomenon, with chapters on each of the six main categories of bad girl carnage. The book is printed in full color throughout and reproduces 100 full-page film posters, as well as over 30 rare production photographs. It also includes a full index of 200 film titles and a foreword by Kagami Jigoku Kobayashi, editor of the "Tokyo Cinegraphix" book series.PINKY VIOLENCE PROFILE presents a comprehensive, full-tilt trip into the wild world of Japanese bad girl cinema. Read more