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	Nikkatsu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Though the company has made films in numerous genres, they are best known for their softcore pornography; indeed, for most of the 1980s, they strictly produced what they termed "roman porn" (short for "romance") films.
		Unlike the 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.
		Nikkatsu: "Pink is the Color of Sex" in mini-tofu #3
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nikkatsu (177 words)

	Midnight Eye Round-Up #16: Nikkatsu Action special
		One of the oddest sub-genres to emerge from Nikkatsu's mukokuseki akushun (borderless action) range is the bizarre cross-cultural hybrid of the Eastern Western.
		Seijun Suzuki has been hailed as a renegade doing his own thing within Nikkatsu's conveyor-belt production system, and Branded to Kill as the pinnacle of his anarchic style, but Nomura's My Colt is My Passport reveals the director's swansong effort for the studios to be not quite the one-off it is hailed to be.
		Gangster VIP is a far more mature and serious film than most of Nikkatsu's akushun films from the 60s, benefiting from some great acting, especially from its lead Watari (Tokyo Drifter), and the poignant final scenes will stick in one's mind for a long time after the film is over.
	www.midnighteye.com /reviews/round-up_016.shtml (2225 words)

	Midnight Eye interview: Jo Shishido and Toshio Masuda
		During the 50s when Nikkatsu first started producing films again, there were several directors, such as Tomu Uchida and Shohei Imamura, who were making quite artistic movies.
		Nikkatsu Action movies were different from other countries' action movies at the time, for example, those of Hong Kong.
		During those years, Nikkatsu's business wasn't going so well, the box office revenues declined and all the talented actors and actresses left around this time, so the studio heads knew that they had to do something radical to bring the business back.
	www.midnighteye.com /interviews/shishido_masuda.shtml (1835 words)

	Yaju no Profile
		At the height of his popularity, which coincided with the peak of Nikkatsu's early 60's "hard-boiled" action film craze, Shishido Jo became known for his ability to create outlandish realism, dramatically and physically.
		A tag which prompted Nikkatsu to use the image of Jo holding a pistol with the Ace of Spades balanced on its upturned barrell for the poster of the 1962 hit, "Hitori Tabi" ("Solo Trip").
		Nikkatsu and Jo seemed to be happily linked for good.
	www.angelfire.com /ok4/shishido/bio2.html (988 words)

	The History Daiei.
		Nagata, who had entered Nikkatsu as a studio guide in 1924, eventually was to spend ten years with the company and become manager of the production and scenario department of the studio's new Tamagawa production house.
		Nikkatsu told the print media a different story, saying the Nagata had resigned because he had heard that the studio was investigating the report of his having accepted a bribe.
		Nikkatsu did not become completely dissolute for Kyusaku Hori was allowed to retain Nikkatsu as a theatre-holding company.
	www.historyvortex.org /HistoryDaiei.html (3070 words)

	One print in the age of mechanical reproduction: film industry and culture in 1910s Japan
		In 1918, Nikkatsu's Mukojima studio (specializing in shinpa films) was making four to five pictures a month and Nikkatsu's Daishogun studio in Kyoto (for kyuha) about seven to eight, which for just one company amounts to about eleven to thirteen titles a month - most about 4000 feet in length.
		Amidst this flood of products, Nikkatsu and Tenkatsu took a variety of measures to save costs, ranging from rereleasing old films either as is or under new titles, or "remaking" films by using old footage and just adding a few newly shot scenes.
		It might strike some as odd that Nikkatsu, which was formed by buying up Yoshizawa, Yokota, M. Pathe, and Fukuhodo, did not also as a result acquire the Asian rights to Kinemacolor, even though Fukuhodo had bought those rights and applied for a Japanese patent well before it agreed to the merger.
	www.latrobe.edu.au /screeningthepast/firstrelease/fr1100/agfr11e.htm (6178 words)

	DVD Times - Angel Guts: The Nikkatsu Series
		Nikkatsu has had a long, rich life in the world of filmmaking, often breaking new ground.
		In addition Nikkatsu had some superb directors helming their films, notably Seijun Suzuki, whose later film Koroshi no Raikuin (Branded to Kill) in 1967 would earn him a dismissal from the company and a fllisting from every other top studio, until he managed to return to filmmaking ten years later.
		There are fleeting moments when he manages to provide a little information about a particular actor or how many films Nikkatsu would release at a given time but for the most part he sticks to the obvious, addressing Ishii's career again and the ideals behind these films and what they stand for.
	www.dvdtimes.co.uk /content.php?contentid=56640 (7724 words)

	Scifilm -- Reviews, MONSTER FROM A PREHISTORIC PLANET (1967)
		In the early 70s, Nikkatsu's box office slumped dramatically due to the influx of Western films and the rise of low budget soft-core "pink eiga" films.
		In response, Nikkatsu rolled out their own train of sexually charged but more artistic "Roman Porno" movies which soon came to dominate the Japanese sexploitation market.
		Yes, Gappa not only destroyed Tokyo, it also drove Nikkatsu into the porno industry, a point which is pretty funny when you take into account that baby Gappa is kidnapped by the evil publisher of "Playmate" magazine.
	www.scifilm.org /reviews3/monsterprehistoric.html (1343 words)

	DVD Verdict Review - Angel Guts: The Nikkatsu Series
		Nikkatsu Studios, struggling to stay afloat in the 1960s and 1970s, needed a gimmick to draw people out of their living rooms and back into the cinemas.
		These men are clearly proud of their work and are anxious to explain all the reasons why it rules—again, I don't always agree with their takes and observations, but their inclusion is a boon to this DVD release.
		Angel Guts: The Nikkatsu Series is a high-quality box set of some of the most reprehensible films I have ever had the misfortune of seeing.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/angelguts.php (2686 words)

	Namco sells movie subsidiary - News at GameSpot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Nikkatsu was founded in 1912 and is considered Japan's oldest motion picture studio and owner of theaters.
		During the 1970s, Nikkatsu Corp. was reduced to producing soft-core pornography; in 1993 it filed for bankruptcy.
		Namco's decision to sell Nikkatsu should not affect the upcoming Tekken movie, which is being created by Crystal Sky Entertainment and USEN subsidiary Gaga Communications.
	www.gamespot.com /news/2005/04/21/news_6122739.html (351 words)

	Akagi Keiichiro
		In the wild, swinging days of the Nikkatsu Action boom, there were three heavy box office hitters that just couldn't be topped.
		During his Freshman year, Nikkatsu held yet another of their nationwide, new talent searches, resulting in his being selected as one of the "Fourth Group of Nikkatsu New Faces".
		In keeping with their "get 'em while they're hot!" modus operandi, Nikkatsu produced and released 11 Akagi Keiichiro films in 1960--many of which are among the best genre films of the period, and all of them were top box office attractions.
	shishido0.tripod.com /akagi.html (745 words)

	The Criterion Collection: Branded to Kill
		Far from the highly respected award-winning films on the international film circuit, these were the popular low-budget B pictures that the public thrived on.
		Countless directors flourished in the studios of Daiei, Toei, and Nikkatsu as directors for hire—auteurs in their own right.
		Of the forty-two films Suzuki made for Nikkatsu, the final fourteen films he made between 1963 and 1967 are some of the most important, original, and Japanese films of all cinema, and of all his disturbing masterpieces, none is as powerful or unique as Branded to Kill.
	www.criterionco.com /asp/release.asp?id=38&eid=55§ion=essay (646 words)

	iFMagazine.com Features - GANGSTERS, WHORES & WHIP-WIELDING DAMES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Working for the low-rent Nikkatsu studio in the 50s and 60s, Suzuki made about 42 films between 1956 and 1967, most of them contemporary crime dramas that were the bottom bills of double features and most of them unremitting junk.
		Because Suzuki was directing the B-movies of a B-studio, bosses in the formula-driven, tradition-bound Japanese studio system weren't paying him much attention, and at least for a while, he could get away with making progressively crazed films, as long as they came in on time and budget.
		Suzuki's reaction to his firing was, basically, to commit seppuku on his film career, suing Nikkatsu to seek enforcement of his employment contract.
	www.ifmagazine.com /feature.asp?article=333 (1320 words)

	Tokyo on the Hudson - New York Times
		The style of the studios has changed a great deal over the years (Nikkatsu, facing bankruptcy in the 1970's, turned to making the soft-core pornography called pink films), but in their early incarnations they reflected a division in Japan's collective idea of cinema that is still relevant.
		At Nikkatsu, resistance to the American style was stronger, and the studio came to specialize in historical dramas - jidaigeki - drawn from or inspired by traditional Kabuki and Bunraku (puppet) plays.
		The house style at Nikkatsu was perhaps best embodied by Mizoguchi (though he also worked for many other companies, including Shochiku), who developed his sublime, long-take, moving camera style (so different from Ozu's fixed camera and precise cutting) through the samurai tales and historic melodramas that were Nikkatsu's staple.
	www.nytimes.com /2005/09/04/movies/04kehr.html?ex=1283486400&en=8f5ee7b7342c5dc5&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss (833 words)

	Asian Film Foundation
		The last ten movies he made for Nikkatsu are among the most fiercely creative films of their time, hip and swinging pictures that often deal with interesting issues in extroardinarily novel ways.
		The Nikkatsu bosses needed a fall guy to take the rap for the financial failure of their studio (but really, after ten years, crime-action movies and remakes of Rebel Without a Cause just weren't catching the public's interest anymore).
		After sueing Nikkatsu for unlawful dismissal (and winning) he spent a decade flballed from the entertainment industry.
	www.asianfilm.org /modules.php?name=Reviews&rop=showcontent&id=44 (440 words)

	TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES
		When he first went to work for Nikkatsu Studios in the late 50s (after leaving a lower-paid position at Shochiku Studios), it was a struggling film company specializing in genre films.
		But shortly after Suzuki's arrival, Nikkatsu began to realize its biggest commercial successes were in the yakuza genre and Suzuki was responsible for some of the best.
		In an amazingly prolific seven years, he helmed more than 25 films and finally achieved critical acclaim with the breakout success of Yaju no Seishun (1963), considered by some to be the film that actually sparked the Japanese moviegoers' craze for yakuza films.
	www.tcm.com /thismonth/article/?cid=138065 (1071 words)

	Tokyo Drifter DVD
		During the 1960’s, Japan’s Nikkatsu Studios hired Seijin Suzuki to film a series of crime melodramas that were to play on the bottom-half of double feature theater showings.
		Because these were low-budget productions shot within a thirty day time period, Nikkatsu allowed the directors free reign as long as the bottom line (violence and gun fights) were met.
		One of his films, BRANDED TO KILL (1967) got him in hot water with Nikkatsu, and they promptly fired him--even though that film is regarded as a masterpiece of world cinema today.
	www.dvdcult.com /rev_TokyoDrift.htm (2035 words)

	Ozu - 90th Anniversary book - part one of two
		As a gag in this Nikkatsu film, the names of scenario-writers of Shochiku were used for the names of the characters.
		As a countermove, the names of scenario writers from Nikkatsu were quoted in Days of Youth.
		Finally, it was transferred to the director Tomu Uchida (of Nikkatsu), and became Uchida's film Unending Advance (Kagirinaki zenshin, 1937).
	www.ozuyasujiro.com /resources/90thanniv/90thanniv.htm (7291 words)

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		While most of his movies were meant to be shown as the bottom halves of double bills, he still made stars of several of his lead actors and actresses.
		So strange a film it was when it was finished, the studio Nikkatsu fired Suzuki on the spot; the script he was assigned had been reworked and finally discarded and the result must have been shocking to the studio heads.
		After toiling through their system for many years and feeling unsatisfied, he began indulging his own desires to break out of that system and develop movies that challenged himself and his audience.
	www.lycoszone.com /info/seijun-suzuki.html (605 words)

	Japan Hero
		In the early part of career she starred as a bit player in a number of low budget Nikkatsu films.
		It was not until she starred in the female gang movie “Onna Bancho Noraneko Rock” (Female Boss – Alley Cat Rock; Hori Pro, 1970) that she started to get some notice.
		His most famous role however was as the villainous Yagyu Retsudo in the TV series “Kozure Okami” (Lonewolf and Cub, 1973).
	beyond.japanhero.com /samurai-ninja/Shura_Yuki_Hime.htm (1115 words)

	DVD Talk Review: Angel Guts: The Nikkatsu Series
		One of the things they quickly capitalized on were looser content codes and began offering theatergoers things you couldn't see on tv.
		So, that is why you ccan say, Nikkatsu Studios was saved by boobies.
		So long as they delivered a steady stream of sex scenes, Nikkatsu directors had a lot of creative freedom, resulting in the studio birthing some provocative flesh peddlers.
	www.dvdtalk.com /reviews/read.php?ID=15020 (1878 words)

	tokyodrifter
		Controversial Japanese director Seijun Suzuki, a hired hand at Nikkatsu studio where he made some 40 films, turns out the visually stylish and bizarrely humorous B-movie Tokyo Drifter, but like all his films it lacks narrative clarity.
		The film displeased the studio heads, who mainly wanted it to be a vehicle to make the newcomer lead actor Tetsuya Watari into a star.
		Suzuki made just two more films for Nikkatsu, Fighting Elegy and his masterpiece Branded to Kill, after which the studio fired him for making "incomprehensible" movies.
	www.sover.net /~ozus/tokyodrifter.htm (617 words)

	notcoming.com \| Seijun Suzuki's Taisho Trilogy
		It’s not often that mainstream film critics and the enthusiastic Asian cultfilm fanboys (are there any fangirls?) are in agreement, but with the case of Seijun Suzuki there is a remarkable convergence of opinion, a shared acknowledgement of the inventiveness and exuberance of his work.
		Although, it has to be said, that judgement is essentially based on a viewing of a line of mostly pulp yakuza pictures that Suzuki made for Nikkatsu Studios up to 1968.
		This is a long way from the world of the Nikkatsu yakuza pictures, and this is the major surprise for anyone coming to the Taisho Trilogy with expectations formed by the likes of Tokyo Drifter and Branded to Kill.
	www.notcoming.com /features.php?id=75 (942 words)

	Hotwax - Asian DVD Guide Forum
		Volume 6 includes articles about Nikkatsu's "roman porno" films, the Downtown Boogie Woogie Band, and the Lone Wolf And Cub films.
		This is a good indication that the next Hotwax Trax CD (#7) will be devoted to Nikkatsu's "roman porno" films.
		It will be devoted to Nikkatsu's "roman porno" films.
	adg.invisionzone.com /index.php?showtopic=1288 (791 words)

	Movie Info for Monster from a Prehistoric Planet on MSN Movies
		The sole foray into the giant-monster arena from Nikkatsu Studios (producers of the classic The Burmese Harp) presents a cutesy clone of Toho's Rodan with a plot lifted from British city-stomper Gorgo.
		Naturally, this incurs not only the ire of the island natives, but the wrath of Baby Gappa's full-grown parents, who storm off to Tokyo to inflict rubber-suited mayhem on some particularly cheap-looking model buildings.
		Nikkatsu's lack of experience with the genre shows in the goofy-looking monster suits, shoddy effects and exaggerated cuteness.
	entertainment.msn.com /movies/movie.aspx?m=487794 (192 words)

	GreenCine Daily: Udine Dispatch. 4.
		It was raining even harder Monday morning, impeding my early departure to the second theater on the other side of town to catch another Nikkatsu Action film.
		Although such a reference might seem unnecessary, it worked off the James Dean image the lead actor, Akagi Keiichiro, had after his untimely death at the age of 21 when he crashed his go-cart on the Nikkatsu lot.
		The film follows a circuitous route of gangster alliances, along with a love interest between Akagi's character and a blind woman for whom he sets up the obligatory fantasy of a miraculous cure.
	daily.greencine.com /archives/000927.html (794 words)

	IGN: Tokyo Drifter (The Criterion Collection) Review
		Though they often reek of camp and experimentation, Suzuki's films for the legendary Japanese film studio Nikkatsu are straight-up excellent entertainment.
		Prior to the filming of Tokyo Drifter, Suzuki had been out of favor with Nikkatsu who found his films to be a long way off from what Nikkatsu wanted.
		Suzuki eventually got fired from Nikkatsu (two films later) and Tokyo Drifter remains as one of the better films from his Nikkatsu period.
	dvd.ign.com /articles/307/307170p1.html (956 words)

	Nikkatsu Roman Porn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Nikkatsu Corporation is a Japanese entertainment company well known for its film and television productions.
		Its film studio was formed in 1912, making it Japan's oldest major film studo.
		If the directors who emerged from the Nikkatsu variant Roman Porno - Negishi Kichitaro, Kaneko Shusuke, Nakahara Shun, Ishii Takashi, Sai Yoichi, Morita Yoshimitsu, Higashi Yoichi and Somai Shinji - are included, the list of pink eiga filmmakers could stand as a representative digest of Japanese cinema over the past decade.
	www.jahsonic.com /Nikkatsu.html (164 words)

	East Asian Collection - UW Madison
		Imamura Shôhei/Nikkatsu Kabushiki Kaisha. Nikkatsu Kabushiki Kaisha, 1994 (1964). VHS. 150 min.
		This story is based on the diary of a 10-year-old girl who, despite her parent's death and struggle against poverty, finds strength and hope in their lives.
		Yamamoto Satsuo/Nikkatsu Kabushiki Kaisha. Nikkatsu Kabushiki Kaisha, 1993 (1973). VHS. 201 min.
	www.library.wisc.edu /guides/EastAsia/j_featurefilmsjpn.htm (5779 words)

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