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The Title: Pinky Violence
🕑 Added 2025-07-22 15:35:16 +0000 UTC
You ever see the movie Hardcore with George C. Scott? Or 8MM with Nicolas Cage? Both of those movies explore the horror residing in unseen film. I love those movies. They spark imagination. Imagination of the worst possible things the individual can conjure—individual dependent.
I always have a gloop of ideas squirming in the back of my mind; some go nowhere, some become something. This story came together all at once, pulling together a lot of things peeped from those clutches of zealous piplings. One of those moments where one is jolted into feverish action.
And most of the creation stems from great points a patron outlined (thanks, Pete! [see comments under last post]). In some ways, this story came behind the title. The title helped form the story. Pinky Violence is a type of film in Japan, called pinku eiga. Pink film.
From Wikipedia: Pink film (ピンク映画, Pinku eiga) refers in Japan to movies produced by independent studios that includes nudity (hence 'pink') or deals with sexual content.[1] This encompasses everything from dramas to action thrillers and exploitation film features. Many pink films would be analogous to erotic thrillers such as Fatal Attraction or Basic Instinct.
Independent studios that release pink films include OP Eiga, Shintōhō Eiga, Kokuei and Xces. The phrase 'pink film' came into use after the major Toei began advertising some of its movies as 'porno' in 1971 and another major Nikkatsu switched to producing only Roman Porno films later that year.[2]
Until the early 2000s, they were almost exclusively shot on 35 mm film. Recently, filmmakers have increasingly used video (while retaining their emphasis on soft-core narrative). Many theaters swapped 35mm for video projectors and began relying on old videos to meet the demand of triple-feature showings.
Films that are now regarded as pink films became wildly popular in the mid-1960s, and made up a large part of the Japanese domestic market through the mid-1980s.[3][4] In the 1960s, the pink films were largely the product of small, independent studios. Around 1970, the major studio Nikkatsu started focusing almost exclusively on erotic content, but Toei, another major film production company, started producing a line of what came to be known as Pinky Violence films. With their access to higher production values and talent, some of these films became critical and popular successes.[5] Though the appearance of the adult video led viewers to move away from pink film in the 1980s, films in this genre are still being produced.
Pinky Violence will be a KT-oriented erotic thriller. It’s not a pinky violence story, in itself. Not in the traditional way. It’s a story with many pinky violence elements, so the title as a catch-all captured me. True Romance, Pulp Fiction, Hardcore, 8MM—in some ways the titling of these movies holds true for the content, but in other ways the stories are unique and original and merely hearken to what the title used to conjure in the public imagination.
But I also love that the title provides little detail to the book’s subject for about 99% of the population. If the term Pinky Violence doesn’t ring a bell, then the process of speculation begins. And with a knowledge of my booky heretofores, the speculation can lead the mind to all different sorts of terror. That may be real. Or not real. And that’s intertwined in the book’s theme, too.
Sometimes variables can come together in ways you never imagined.
(I'd love to talk about the genre in the comments. From Pink to Pinky Violent to Roman Porno to Ero Guru. Tell me some films you love, and I'll tell you my favorites as well.)
Comments
RCH
KT you may or may not remember My wife is Japanese from Osaka I've spent some time in Japan and you descriptions of the trip on the train and walk through the neighborhood were spot on! I could feel humidity and smell the tatami mats... Japanese men are pervs! Wife tells of getting groped on the crowed trains. See possibly a connection to train molestation and girl gang payback.
RCH
Just finished the first part. Interesting...
KT Morrison
Ah, infamous Bolognese. We meet again.
JamesIsAsleep
So because I took the few paragraphs I saw that talked the genre of 'Pinky violence' then read the story, my wandering mind had me connecting the juvenile behavior of Saeko in the recording at the end as an allusion to more nefarious deeds (as in petty crime or something to that effect) by Saeko, but I only say this stuff as an example of the mind games KT causes whenever she writes and she simultaneously floats these other concepts. Honestly KT can tell us about the dinner she had, then drop a story and I'd go "what does Bolognese have to do with this part? I must know!"
JamesIsAsleep
I've only ever listened to movie podcasters talk about the ins and outs of the film which did have me really respecting the film makers intention and the themes in the storyline, but yeah, that movie sounded gruesome. I don't know enough about this genre of film that the title of book derives it's name to say whether it fits but on the subject of dark movies that feature a female protagonist seeking revenge on a system of oppression, I can see the parallels. Again, assuming I understand ...
RCH
Does this qualify "The Audition" 1999. Wish I could unsee it... It still haunts me...
KT Morrison
Ha ha, no I didn't. I picked it because it was coastal and cold, and like Kamakura but not like it, too. I make Portrush sound bleak in Ian's perspective, but I actually love Portrush and some other towns along that coast.
Donkatsu
What a fruitful vein this will be. My two cents: Ecstasy (1933 with Hedy Lamarr), and Young and Beautiful, with the young and beautiful Marine Vacth. Slightly OT, Did you know when plotting this story, that the British Open would be held contemporaneously with its publication, in Ian's home town (Portrush, NI)?
