The Naked Director

(2019)

★ 7.3 IMDb · 196 votes

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Year: 2019

Country: Japan

Cast: Такаюки Ямада, Шинноске Мицушима, Мисато Морита, 玉山鉄二, Токио Эмото, Сайри Ито, 後藤剛範, Дзюн Кунимура, 冨手麻妙, うらじぬの

Plot

Follows the rise of Tooru Muranishi, one of Japan's most notorious directors of adult video. Adapted from a biography of the man, this series depicts the character, his art, vision and his interactions with the approving and disapproving folk around him.

Pinku (the Japanese softcore film sub-genre) has a long and historied part in Japanese cinema. The genre has existed for over forty years and seen many ebbs and flows. One of the directors during the heyday of the movement was the prolific Muranishi Toru. Adpated from a novel about the man, The Naked Director depicts the character, his art, vision and his interactions with the approving and disapproving folk around him.