Underwater

Underwater Love (2011)

First published by Little White Lies Underwater Love (aka Onna no kappa) announces its generic affiliation from its very opening frame: a screen filled with lurid pink. For this is the kind of Japanese low-budget softcore ‘eroproduction’ known as pinku eiga or ‘pink film’. At its prurient peak in the Sixties and Seventies, today the genre tends…