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The five directors were given very limited budgets and required to shoot their films within one week, just as Roman Pornos had been made in their 1970s-80s heyday. Nikkatsu’s unique concept then, as now, was to require only that there be a sex scene every 10 minutes or so, but otherwise to allow complete freedom in the choice of stories and styles.
Mr. Shiraishi and Mr. Yukisada also find inventive ways to the steady progression of sex scenes feel like part of an organic plot. Mr. Shiraishi’s “Dawn of the Felines,” which examines the lives of three women working for an escort agency — a “health express,” in Japanese parlance — harks back to the social protest themes prevalent in many of the original roman pornos.



















