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Mototsugu Watanabe

Amitabh Bachchan, Taapsee Pannu, Kirti Kulhari, and Andrea Tariang in Pink (2016)
Film Review: My Hero Chihiro (2015) By Mototsugu Watanabe
Amitabh Bachchan, Taapsee Pannu, Kirti Kulhari, and Andrea Tariang in Pink (2016)
Living a life of routine where everything is planned down to the minute, including her sex life, Chihiro begins to grow bored of the regimented life outlined by her husband, causing her to begin an affair with an ex co-worker. Still holding onto admiration for her husband, Chihiro struggles with her life choices. Once believing that the lifestyle of a housewife would bring her happiness, she becomes resentful of her existence and longs for something more from life.

“My Hero Chihiro” is available from Pink Eiga

While contemplating her role in society, she curses all of Japan, wishing that it would be destroyed. Unbeknownst to her as she made this wish, God herself was looking for a person who could help restore faith in humanity. God hears Chihiro’s wish and tells her that in order to save all of Japan she must become a famous Idol, a childhood fantasy that Chihiro once held.
See full article at AsianMoviePulse
  • 4/27/2020
  • by Adam Symchuk
  • AsianMoviePulse
Film Review: Pink Salon Hospital 3 (2000) by Mototsugu Watanabe
Tireless in his dedication to the genre, Mototsugu Watanabe emerged as one of the finest directors of the pinku explosion in the 1990s and continues to be one of the finest directors of the style. In this sexy over-the-top indie comedy, originally released as Pin-saro byôin 3: Nô-pan shinsatsushitsu, Watanabe and writer Takao Nakano mine the same silly territory of his earlier pinku comedies in the ‘Sexy Battle Girls’ films to great effect.

Pink Salon Hospital 3 is available from Pink Eiga

Looking for work, Komasa (Shiori Kuroda) is a cow-girl drifter who works at the whore house, “Hot-Lips”. One day, she saves the life of Monroe (Nao Saitô) a pink-haired woman who is being attacked by a demon. Monroe gets a job at “Hot Lips” where it’s quickly discovered that her blowjobs have magical healing powers. Soon she’s the most popular girl there as lines of sick and...
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  • 4/9/2020
  • by Don Anelli
  • AsianMoviePulse
Pink Eiga: 'Whore Angels' DVD review
If you were to describe to someone what a sex comedy was you would probably refer to a certain franchise that has been man milked to death. You would talk about the pie. You would talk about gross out gags and toilet humor. You would talk about the scant few moments of flesh in the films as well. You would also mention that this was all very scandalous over ten years ago when this franchise made its debut in 1999. If you were to ask pink eiga director  Mototsugu Watanabe [Sexy Battle Girls] what his 2000 sex comedy Whore Angels was about he would tell you. Every 1000 years god sends an angel to Earth to renew the lease for the planet between himself and humankind....
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  • 4/7/2011
  • Screen Anarchy
DVD Review: Mototsugu Watanabe’s Sexy Battle Girls
Mototsugu Watanabe’s Sexy Battle Girls (Nerawareta gakuen: seifuku o osou) is best described as a pinku version of a tokusatsu television show. Instead of Power Rangers fighting space monsters, however, Sexy Battle Girls portrays unchaste school girls out for revenge. Pink Eiga’s new DVD of the title represents the first time Sexy Battle Girls has been available with English subtitles.
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  • 3/26/2009
  • by Rodney Perkins
  • Screen Anarchy
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