The Title: Pinky Violence

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.)