is a 2006

2006 in film

- Highest-grossing films :Please note that following the tradition of the English-language film industry, these are the top-grossing films that were first released in the United States in 2006...

 Japan

Japan

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ese pink film directed by Yutaka Ikejima

Yutaka Ikejima

is a Japanese film director, actor, and producer. Considered the most successful filmmaker in the pink film genre in the 2000s, his films are popular with traditional pink film audiences, fans of cinema, and with critics. Because of his prolific contributions to the pink film he has earned the...

 and written by his wife and frequent collaborator, Kyōko Godai. It won the award for Fifth Best Film at the Pink Grand Prix

Pink Grand Prix

The or is an annual Japanese film award ceremony which recognizes excellence in the pink film. Known as the "Academy Awards of the Pink Film", the ceremony attracts a diverse audience of industry personnel, film scholars and the general public....

 ceremony, and Itsuka Harusaki was given a Best New Actress award for her performance in the film.

Synopsis

The story follows the lives of the Kazama family in Tokyo in the 30th year of the Shōwa period: 1955. The father, Ichirō, is a salaryman. His wife, Eiko, is a housewife. The daughter, Akiko, works as a clerk in a factory, and Shigeru, the son, is a college student.

Cast

• Itsuka Harusaki as Akiko Kazama
• Kozue Ikeda as Yuriko Matsuda
• Yuria Hidaka  as Ruiko Sakurazawa
• Atsushi Tsuda as Shigeru Kazama
• Seiji Nakamitsu as Ichirō Kazama
• Naohiro Hirakawa as Satoshi Tanaka
• Anzu Yoshihara as Eiko Kazama
• Kazu Itsuki as Tsuchitani
• Kanae Ohara as Mitsue
• Takayuki Mogi as Endō
• Yutaka Ikejima
  Yutaka Ikejima
  is a Japanese film director, actor, and producer. Considered the most successful filmmaker in the pink film genre in the 2000s, his films are popular with traditional pink film audiences, fans of cinema, and with critics. Because of his prolific contributions to the pink film he has earned the...
  
   as Matsuda

Availability

Yutaka Ikejima

Yutaka Ikejima

is a Japanese film director, actor, and producer. Considered the most successful filmmaker in the pink film genre in the 2000s, his films are popular with traditional pink film audiences, fans of cinema, and with critics. Because of his prolific contributions to the pink film he has earned the...

 filmed Shōwa Erotic Romance: The Virgin's Bashfulness for his own production studio, Cement Match and it was released theatrically in Japan by OP Eiga

OP Eiga

, also known as is the largest and one of the oldest independent Japanese studios which produce and distribute pink films. Along with Shintōhō, Kantō, Million Film, and Kōji Wakamatsu's production studio, Ōkura was one of the most influential studios on the pink film genre...

 on April 8, 2006. It became available online on March 5, 2008 through the Hokuto Corporation

Hokuto Corporation

The is a Japanese joint stock company involved in the distribution of adult videos and adult toys. The firm, founded in March 1990, is headquartered in Tokyo at the Ebisu Garden Place Tower. By late 2008, Hokuto was handling products from more than 150 different adult video studios, making it the...

's online service, DMM.

External links

• 昭和エロ浪漫／生娘の恥じらい at www.okura-movie.co.jp (Official site)