The Nikkatsu Corporation (日活株式会社, Nikkatsu kabushiki kaisha) is a Japanese entertainment company well known for its film and television productions. It is Japan's oldest major movie studio. The name Nikkatsu is an abbreviation of Nippon Katsudō Shashin, literally "Japan Cinematograph Company".
The company has made, and continues to make films in numerous genres. However, for most of the 1970s and 1980s, they strictly produced what they termed rom...
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The Nikkatsu Corporation (日活株式会社, Nikkatsu kabushiki kaisha) is a Japanese entertainment company well known for its film and television productions. It is Japan's oldest major movie studio. The name Nikkatsu is an abbreviation of Nippon Katsudō Shashin, literally "Japan Cinematograph Company".
The company has made, and continues to make films in numerous genres. However, for most of the 1970s and 1980s, they strictly produced what they termed roman porn (short for romance) films in order to make ends meet (see History section). Unlike "pinku eiga", Nikkatsu's films were produced with relatively high budgets and production values, as well as featuring mainstream actresses, many of whom also starred in network television and nationally released film dramas.
Term which refers to Nikkatsu's soft-core pornography was "Roman porno". It is the shortened Japanese-English form of "romantic pornography."
Nikkatsu was founded in 1912 when several production companies and theater chains...
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