Office Lady Love Juice
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is a 1999
Japan
ese Pink film directed by Yūji Tajiri
. It was chosen as Best Film of the year at the Pink Grand Prix
ceremony.
Longtime fans of the genre also showed their approval by awarding it Best Film at the 1999 Pink Grand Prix
. The film also won awards for Best Director (Yūji Tajiri), Best Screenplay (Kōsuke Takeda) and Best Actor (Mikio Satō). The film became something of a symbol of the rift between the older pinku shitenno ("Four Heavenly Kings" or "Four Devils") and the shichifukujin ("Seven Lucky Gods") groups of directors when it beat Takahisa Zeze
's Anarchy in Japansuke: The Woman Who Comes When Watched
for the top spot. The older Zeze had been a vocal critic of the younger directors' films which avoided the experimentation and politically-charged messages which characterize the work of the shitenno. Calling the shichifukujins films "weak" and "light", Zeze engaged in a heated spat with Tajiri on the stage of the awards ceremony. Jasper Sharp writes that the scuffle was mainly a staged controversy for the benefit of the audience, as no real personal animosity exists between the two groups of directors. The younger group all gained their first filmmaking experiences by working on films of the older directors.
The mainstream film community also awarded the film at the 9th "Japanese Film Professional's Award" ceremony, where Love Juice was named the 7th best release of the year. In 2002, three years after its initial release, the film had the distinction of winning the last P-1 Grand-Prix. This festival was designed to highlight the current crop of pink films by showing 16 of the best releases on double-bills over a one-week period. At the end of the showings, the audience voted for the best film. Because of the expense involved in mounting the festival, it was only held three times. The 2002 ceremony was included as part of the Udine Far East Film Festival.
1999 in film
The year 1999 in film involved several noteworthy events and has been called "The Year That Changed Movies". Several significant feature films, including Stanley Kubrick's final film Eyes Wide Shut, Pedro Almodóvar's first Oscar-winning film All About My Mother, science fiction The Matrix, Deep...
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Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
ese Pink film directed by Yūji Tajiri
Yūji Tajiri
is a Japanese film director, screenwriter, and actor. He is one of the group of pink film directors collectively known as the .-Life and career:...
. It was chosen as Best Film of the year at the Pink Grand Prix
Pink Grand Prix
The or is an annual Japanese film award ceremony which recognizes excellence in the pink film. Known as the "Academy Awards of the Pink Film", the ceremony attracts a diverse audience of industry personnel, film scholars and the general public....
ceremony.
Synopsis
After her boyfriend leaves her, a 28-year-old woman has a romance with a 20-year-old man.Critical reception
Jasper Sharp writes that Office Lady Love Juice is a good entry film for newcomers to the pink film genre. It is, he judges, a "subtly-realised and well-drawn character study" which marked a change in style for Kokuei.Longtime fans of the genre also showed their approval by awarding it Best Film at the 1999 Pink Grand Prix
Pink Grand Prix
The or is an annual Japanese film award ceremony which recognizes excellence in the pink film. Known as the "Academy Awards of the Pink Film", the ceremony attracts a diverse audience of industry personnel, film scholars and the general public....
. The film also won awards for Best Director (Yūji Tajiri), Best Screenplay (Kōsuke Takeda) and Best Actor (Mikio Satō). The film became something of a symbol of the rift between the older pinku shitenno ("Four Heavenly Kings" or "Four Devils") and the shichifukujin ("Seven Lucky Gods") groups of directors when it beat Takahisa Zeze
Takahisa Zeze
is a Japanese film director and screenwriter best known for his soft-core pornographic pink films of the 1990s. Along with fellow directors, Kazuhiro Sano, Toshiki Satō, and Hisayasu Sato, he is known as one of the .-Life and career:...
's Anarchy in Japansuke: The Woman Who Comes When Watched
Anarchy in Japansuke
original title is a 1999 Japanese pink film directed by Takahisa Zeze. It won the Silver Prize at the Pink Grand Prix ceremony.Along with Office Lady Love Juice, the film became something of a symbol of the rift between the older pinku shitenno group of pink film directors and the younger...
for the top spot. The older Zeze had been a vocal critic of the younger directors' films which avoided the experimentation and politically-charged messages which characterize the work of the shitenno. Calling the shichifukujins films "weak" and "light", Zeze engaged in a heated spat with Tajiri on the stage of the awards ceremony. Jasper Sharp writes that the scuffle was mainly a staged controversy for the benefit of the audience, as no real personal animosity exists between the two groups of directors. The younger group all gained their first filmmaking experiences by working on films of the older directors.
The mainstream film community also awarded the film at the 9th "Japanese Film Professional's Award" ceremony, where Love Juice was named the 7th best release of the year. In 2002, three years after its initial release, the film had the distinction of winning the last P-1 Grand-Prix. This festival was designed to highlight the current crop of pink films by showing 16 of the best releases on double-bills over a one-week period. At the end of the showings, the audience voted for the best film. Because of the expense involved in mounting the festival, it was only held three times. The 2002 ceremony was included as part of the Udine Far East Film Festival.