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Wikipedia article
is a 1967 Japanese 'pink film' directed by Toshio Okuwaki for World Eiga. One of the director's most praised films, it features an early appearance by Naomi Tani.
Synopsis
The husband of a young wife discovers she has a promiscuous background as a bar hostess. Feeling that his honor has been slighted, he refuses to have intimate relations with her. The woman flees her old-fashioned husband for solace in the arms of a former lover.
Cast
* Setsu Shimizu
* Michiko Saky
* Naomi Tani
Critical appraisal
In their 'Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: The Sex Films', Thomas and Yuko Mihara Weisser judge 'Bed Dance' to be one of director Toshio Okuwaki's better efforts. The film's cast is noted as one of the strong points of 'Bed Dance', particularly the appearance early in her career of Naomi Tani. The poorly thought-out script and conflicting themes, however, are said to be weaknesses of the film.
The film's description at the time of its 2003 showing at the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival noted a surprisingly Freudian touch to the film's plot. Allmovie also writes that 'Bed Dance' is one of Okuwaki's better films, and that, besides erotic interest, its storyline provides a glimpse of cultural and sexual mores at a time of rapid change.
Director Toshio Okuwaki
Director Toshio Okuwaki is generally not well known today. Besides his marriage to Tamaki Katori, the "Pink Princess" of the first wave of Pink films, Okuwaki is today best remembered for 'Naked Pursuit' (1968), one of the early pink films which has been lost in Japan, but was preserved in the U.S. due to its distribution through Harry Novak's Box Office International Pictures. 1967, the year of 'Bed Dance's release, was the high-point of Okuwaki's career. Allmovie notes that Okuwaki's career went into decline after making 'Bed Dance', 'Onna No Aji' and 'Climax', all from 1967. The Weissers agree, writing that after 1967 Okuwaki became a "notorious studio hack" who directed a "parade of interchangeable sex flicks."Weisser, p. 79. A three-film retrospective of Okuwaki's work with Tamaki Katori was a feature at the 2003 Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival. 'Bed Dance' was shown at the same festival, paired with an early work by Mamoru Watanabe.
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Category:1967 films
Category:1960s Japanese-language films
Category:Pink films
Category:1960s Japanese films
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