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YUKO KATAGIRI - ACTRESS

when you began your soft-porn career.

You two were dating.

Our apartment house

was at the end of a road.

My room was this side,

and his was at the end.

She was always disappearing from the set.

Some of the crew got suspicious

and tailed her one day.

They thought she was with me!

They thought we were getting it on.

But I couldn't let on that I knew.

- So you knew they were dating?

- Sure.

They were tiny apartments.

My furniture would rattle

when she was with him.

We were dating, but we had problems.

Yes. We even broke up once.

Before you got married?

Before I got into soft porn.

The breakup made me determined

to throw myself into Roman porno,

or soft-porn roles.

- The breakup helped?

- Yes.

Nikkatsu was in decline.

They stopped making straight movies.

At one time, there was no shooting

for an entire month.

The company and the unions

were trying to work it out.

There were negotiations going on

to save jobs at the studio.

We expected the soft-porn output

to remain viable.

They really didn't eat up

much of a budget.

Roman porno was really

their last stronghold.

Nikkatsu couldn't have survived

without the Roman porno.

In the end, all the unions agreed

that we could keep the studio afloat

with Roman porno films.

Of course, some objected to our plans.

Lots of them used fictitious

or pen names.

Anyone with a credit did,

from staff to directors.

But not me.

I was the director of cinematography.

My work stood for itself.

I saw no reason to hide my identity.

You've heard from the others

how passionate they were

when Nikkatsu threw all its resources

into making Roman porno.

YOSHIHIRO YUKI - PRODUCER

We weren't anti anything

in those days.

The company laid down six conditions

for the productions.

First, there should be a sex scene

every 10 minutes.

For the rest,

we could do anything we wanted.

All budgets were slashed to 7.5 million yen-

$100,000 approximately.

The length of the films

had to be 60 to 70 minutes.

Because of the low budgets,

all the dialogue and audio

had to be dubbed.

Since Nikkatsu had its own studio sets,

we were free to use whatever was there.

You could make anything

so long as it was Roman porno?

Exactly.

That suited me just fine.

I could shoot what I wanted.

But always three or four

sex scenes to a film.

Only three or four?

As many as we wanted really,

if they approved.

IN THE REALM OF SEX

Hey, mister.

I know a good girl.

ARE YOU YUKO KATAGIRI?

MAY I TOUCH YOU?

JUST LIKE A ROMAN PORNO MOVIE.

YOU CALL THAT BONDAGE?

I'd count the number of sex scenes.

The less there were,

the better I liked it.

I was always amazed

how in just about any possible situation,

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