| Ekiben | |
| Director: | Shungo Kaji |
| Producer: | Shinsuke Kaji |
| Cinematography: | Koichi Ishii |
| Editing: | Naoki Kaneko |
| Distributor: | Hot Entertainment |
| Runtime: | 108 minutes |
| Country: | Japan |
| Language: | Japanese |
is a 1999 Japanese mock documentary film centering on the adult video (AV) industry which was written and directed by Shungo Kaji. Ekiben refers to a box lunch sold at train stations in Japan and it is also a slang term referring to a sexual position where the man remains standing while supporting the woman who faces him with her legs wrapped around his waist.[1] This position is the "specialty" of the adult video actor Chocoball Mukai who appears in the film.[2]
The movie stars Shungo Kaji, Saki Shiratori and Chocoball Mukai. It was released theatrically in Japan as an R-15 film on October 9, 1999, by Hot Entertainment.[3] The film was screened in February 2000 at the Berlin International Film Market (part of the Berlin International Film Festival) and in March 2000 at the NatFilm Festival in Denmark.[4]
The critic for Variety says the film could, with judicious editing and marketing, have a "brief specialized career." He calls it inventive and funny, well acted and observed and he finds Kaji's aspiration to be taken seriously as a director touching with "a curiously melancholic style of humor."[5] The AllRovi entry describes it as a "funny and oddly poignant film."[6]