Apartment Wife: Affair In the Afternoon

Apartment Wife Affair In the Afternoon , Danchizuma hirusagari no jji? aka Fromto Sex is a 1971 Japanese film in Nikkatsus Roman porno series. The first film in this successful new direction for the studio, it was directed by Shgor Nishimura and starred Kazuko Shirakawa.

During the late 1960s and early 1970s, Nikkatsu, Japans oldest film studio, was losing much of their audience to television and the importation of American films, and suffering from expensive, unsuccessful projects. Struggling to keep the studio out of bankruptcy, Takashi Itamochi, Nikkatsus president, decided to put the companys high production values and professional talent into the adult, or pink film industry as a way of attracting a new audience. Until this time the pink film market had been almost entirely the realm of lowbudget independent companies. This new direction for the studio was inaugurated with Apartment Wife Affair In the Afternoon. These often wellmade and artistic softcore pornographic films proved popular with both the public and the critics. This introduction of pornography into mainstream Japanese movie theaters has been credited with saving Nikkatsu from collapse at that time. For the nextyears Nikkatsu produced Roman Porno films almost exclusively.Apartment Wife Affair In the Afternoon was an immediate hit with film audiences, and gained critical approval. The film made a mainstream star of Kazuko Shirakawa, who had been appearing in independent pink films since 1967. ........

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