These days the more cheaply produced AV (adult video) has largely taken
over from the soft-core Japanese independent film known as pink film
or pinku eiga and its mainstream studio-produced equivalent, roman porno
(romantic pornography). Recently, pinku eiga has been making a comeback,
with films such as The Bedroom (Sato: 1992), Tandem (Sato: 1994), The Woman
in Black Underwear (Zeze: 1997) and Lunchbox (Imaoka: 2004). However,
before the Allied Occupation, the only way to see sexually explicit films was
either to visit the city and purchase a burumubi (blue movie) from an erotogushi
(‘smut peddler’) or to attend an underground screening of domestically
produced ‘stag’ films (Macias 2001: 172).