Blue Film: Estimation

Blue Film: Estimation (蒼いフィルム　品さだめ, Aoi firumu shinasadame) is a 1968 Japanese pink film directed by Kan Mukai. It is in the Part color-format which was common with Pink films in the late 1960s and early 1970s before Nikkatsu's entry into the genre with their Roman Porno films.

Blue Film: Estimation
Theatrical poster for Blue Film: Estimation (1968)
Directed by	Kan Mukai
Written by	Atsushi Yamatoya
Starring	Mari Nagisa Kemi Ichiboshi >Norihiro Ōtani
Cinematography	Shirō Suzuki
Distributed by	Mukai Productions Nihon Geijutsu Kyokai Wakamatsu Productions Kantō Movies
Release date	March 1968 (1968-03)
Running time	69 minutes
Country	Japan
Language	Japanese

Synopsis

The film depicts the plight of a female office worker whose boss introduces her to the world of pornographic films.

Cast

• Mari Nagisa as Maya (typist)
• Kemi Ichiboshi
• Norihiro Ōtani as Kunio
• Mitsugu Fujii
• Risa Minakami

Background

Director Kan Mukai often capitalized on controversy to boost the publicity surrounding the release of his films. In the case of Blue Film: Estimation, the advertising campaign emphasizing the appearance of mainstream actress Mitsugu Fujii in this pink film created enough public notice to make the film a success. Fujii would again work with Mukai in his Blue Film Woman (1969).

Bibliography

English

• Aoi firumu: Shinasadame (1968) at IMDb
• "AOI FILM SHINASADAME". Complete Index to World Film. Retrieved 2010-02-19.
• Weisser, Thomas; Yuko Mihara Weisser (1998). Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: The Sex Films. Miami: Vital Books : Asian Cult Cinema Publications. p. 70. ISBN 1-889288-52-7.

Japanese

• 蒼いフィルム 品さだめ (in Japanese). Japanese Movie Database. Retrieved 2010-02-19.
• "蒼いフィルム 品さだめ". Japanese Cinema Database (Agency for Cultural Affairs). Archived from the original on 2012-03-11. Retrieved 2010-02-19.