Blue Film Woman

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{{Infobox film
| name = Blue Film Woman
| image = Blue Film Woman.jpg
| image_size =
| caption = Theatrical poster for ''Blue Film Woman''

(1969)
| ector = [[Kan

Mukai]]<ref>Infobox data from {{cite web |url=http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1969/cs000210.htm|script-title=ja:ブルーフィルムの女|accessdate=2009-07-22|language=Japanese|publisher=[[Japanese Movie Database]]}} ''and'' {{IMDb title|1468704|Burû firumu no onna (1969)}}</ref>
| producer = Daisuke Asakura
| writer = Yutaka Sō
| narrator =
| starring = Mitsugu Fujii
| music =
| cinematography = Masayuki Hamano
| editing =
| distributor = Kokuei
| released = January 1969
| runtime = 80 minutes

| country = Japan
| language = Japanese
| budget =
| gross =
| preceded_by =
| followed_by =
}}

{{nihongo|'''''Blue Film Woman'''''|ブルーフィルムの女|Burū firumu no onna}} is a [[1969 in film|1969]] [[Japan]]ese [[pink film]] directed by [[Kan Mukai]].

==Synopsis==
As his investments in the stock market fail, a man finds himself in serious debt to a lecherous loan-shark named Uchiyama. The man's wife hires herself to Uchiyama to buy time for the husband to pay off the debt. After Uchiyama uses the wife to provide companionship for his mentally-impaired son, she is hit by a car, and her husband falls into despair and illness. Their daughter works as a nightclub dancer, intending to save the money to help with the debt. After her father's suicide, the girl decides to get revenge.<ref name="Perkins"/>

==Cast==
* Mitsugu Fujii
* Ichirō Furuoka
* Miki Hashimoto
* Keisuke Kawahigashi
* Rika Koyanagi
* Reo Mizumori
* Kumi Ōsugi
* Shūsuke Sone
* Takako Uchida

==Background==
Because 3.5 million yen was the budget imposed on works in the ''pink film'' genre, an all-color production had been beyond the means of directors in the 1960s. Some films had been shot partially in color, using color only for certain scenes, a practise that would continue until [[Nikkatsu]] took over the genre with its [[Roman porno]] series in 1971.<ref name="Fantasia">{{cite web |url=http://www.fantasiafestival.com/2009/en/films/film_detail.php?id=46|title=Blue Film Woman|accessdate=2009-07-22|publisher= www.fantasiafestival.com }}</ref> ''Blue Film Woman'' was one of the first all-color ''pink films''. Jasper Sharp writes that director Mukai's use of color in this film appears to be "making up for lost time, exploding into its super-saturated hues from the very first frame... flooded with prismatic blotches of primary reds and blues and silhouettes of naked female bodies - not unlike a more lysergically-inspired version of a Bond movie credit sequence." The style continues, Sharp writing that the film as a whole is a "highly stylised piece."<ref name="Sharp 62">{{cite book |last=Sharp|first=Jasper|title=Behind the Pink Curtain: The Complete History of Japanese Sex Cinema|page= 62|year=2008|publisher=FAB Press|location=Guildford|isbn=978-1-903254-54-7}}</ref>

==Availability and critical reception==
''Blue Film Woman'' is one of the only ''pink films'' from its era to survive in a 35mm format.<ref name="Perkins">{{cite web |first=Rodney |last=Perkins |date=2008-09-23 |url=http://twitchfilm.net/site/view/fantastic-fest-2008-kan-mukais-blue-film-woman/|title=BEHIND THE PINK CURTAIN Retrospective: Kan Mukai's BLUE FILM WOMAN|accessdate=2009-07-22|publisher= twitchfilm.net }}</ref> It made its U.S. debut in September 2008, with a new print screened at the [[Fantastic Fest]] in [[Austin, Texas]].<ref name="Perkins"/><ref>{{cite web |first=Jasper |last=Sharp |url=http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/ff20081204r1.html|title=Pink thrills: Japanese sex movies go global|accessdate=2009-06-21|publisher=[[The Japan Times]]}}</ref> After the viewing, twitchfilm.net judged that it is, "a great example of early pinku eiga that deserves to be seen."<ref name="Perkins"/> Its Canadian debut was at the FanTasia International Film Festival.<ref name="Fantasia"/> It was shown at the fiftieth [[International Thessaloniki Film Festival]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://tiff.filmfestival.gr/default.aspx?lang=en-US&loc=7&page=832&SectionID=104&MovieID=1468|title=Pinku eiga: Beyond Pink; Blue Film Woman / Kan Mukai |accessdate=2010-02-25|publisher=[[International Thessaloniki Film Festival]]}}</ref>

==Bibliography==

===English===
* {{Amg movie |477240 |Blue Film Woman}}
* {{cite web |url=http://www.fantasiafestival.com/2009/en/films/film_detail.php?id=46|title=Blue Film Woman|accessdate=2009-07-22|publisher= www.fantasiafestival.com}}
* {{IMDb title|1468704|Burû firumu no onna (1969)}}
* {{cite web |first=Rodney |last=Perkins |date=2008-09-23 |url=http://twitchfilm.net/site/view/fantastic-fest-2008-kan-mukais-blue-film-woman/|title=BEHIND THE PINK CURTAIN Retrospective: Kan Mukai's BLUE FILM WOMAN|accessdate=2009-07-22|publisher= twitchfilm.net}}
* {{cite book |last=Sharp|first=Jasper|title=Behind the Pink Curtain: The Complete History of Japanese Sex Cinema|pages= 62, 218, 351|year=2008|publisher=FAB Press|location=Guildford|isbn=978-1-903254-54-7}}

===Japanese===
* {{cite web |url=http://www.allcinema.net/prog/show_c.php?num_c=142715|script-title=ja:ブルーフィルムの女(1969)|accessdate=2009-07-22|publisher=allcinema.net|language=Japanese}}
* {{cite web |url=http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/1969/cs000210.htm|script-title=ja:ブルーフィルムの女|accessdate=2009-07-22|language=Japanese|publisher=[[Japanese Movie Database]]}}

==Notes==
{{reflist}}

{{Kan Mukai}}

[[Category:1969 films]]
[[Category:Japanese films]]
[[Category:Films directed by Kan Mukai]]
[[Category:Japanese-language films]]
[[Category:Pink films]]

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