New on Blu-ray: PINK CUT & TOP STRIPPER (1982-1983) - Yoshimitsu Morita Erotic Double Feature

Product Description: Before The Family Game redefined the Japanese cinema of the 1980s, Yoshimitsu Morita cut his teeth on two remarkable erotic films for Nikkatsu’s Roman Porno line: TOP STRIPPER (1982) and PINK CUT: LOVE ME HARD, LOVE ME DEEP (1983). Marked by an atypically sweet, sex-positive tone and an infectious pop sensibility that stands out amongst the more tortured classics of the genre, both films find the independent filmmaker working with studio resources for the first time and therefore experimenting with various new modes of filmmaking.

TOP STRIPPER follows Yoichi (Kensuke Miyawaki), a bright-eyed delivery boy who misguidedly falls in love with the stripper next door, Gloria (Kaori Okamoto). Shot on-location in a near-documentary style that forefronts delightful bygone locations and the camaraderie inherent to the strip club’s troupe, the film hits a surprising note of coming-of-age, suffused with open-ended questions about spectatorship that prove critical of the medium itself. Its pop-inflected counterpart, PINK CUT: LOVE ME HARD, LOVE ME DEEP, sees Morita working on a set for the first time, basking in the artificiality of it all. Morita goes as far as staging musical numbers, in a fantasmatic tale of entrepreneurship that finds Mami (Mayumi Terashima) and Yuka (Mai Inoue) open a barbershop best known for its… special services. A pure candy-colored concoction emblematic of the 1980s, it reveals Morita as a thoroughly versatile filmmaker that here takes his first steps towards the striking, playful postmodernism that would define his entire oeuvre.

Find out more about this DVD/Blu-ray release after the jump.

Click the links below to jump directly
to the selected section:

Movie Details

Available Formats (Purchasing Links)

Video

Audio

Subtitles

Special Features & Extras

Trailer and Clips

Pictures

MOVIE DETAILS

JUMP BACK TO TOP

Director: Yoshimitsu Morita

Starring: Kaori Okamoto, Ken Miyawaki, Nami Misaki, Ayako Ôta, Jun Ueno, Yudo Yoshikawa

Genre: Erotic, Comedy, Romance

Runtime: 130 min

Rating: Not Rated

Language: Japanese

Studio: Kani

Home Video Release Date: December 30, 2025