Pink Grand Prix Explained

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Date: April 2019
Venue:Shinbungeiza theater
Country:Japan
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Year:1989
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The or is an annual Japanese film award ceremony which recognizes excellence in the pink film genre. Referred to by Miho Toda as the "Academy Awards of the Pink Film",[1] [2] [3] the ceremony attracts a diverse audience of industry personnel, film scholars and the general public.[4]

Pink film scholar Jasper Sharp calls it the high point of the year for the pink film community.[4]

PG, a magazine focusing on the genre, hosts the Pink Grand Prix in April of each year as a review of pink films released the previous year.[5] The top ten films are selected by a readers' poll, and the top five films are screened during the evening of the ceremony held at the Kameari-za theater in Aoto, Tokyo until its closing in 1999, and at the Shinbungeiza theater thereafter.[4] [6]

History

PG magazine was founded by Yoshiyuki Hayashida in July 1994.[7] The magazine was preceded by the limited-circulation New Zoom-up, which Hayashida started in 1989, and which held the first Pink Grand Prix awards beginning that year, covering films released in 1988.[8]

Among actresses who have won the award multiple times are Yumika Hayashi,[9] recipient of the Best Actress award in 2004 and the Special Career Award the following year.[10] [11] After her death on June 28, 2005,[12] she was awarded a second Special Career Award at the 2006 Pink Grand Prix ceremony.[13] [14]

Yearly awards

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Toda. Miho. https://web.archive.org/web/20080512020250/http://www.walkerplus.com/movie/report/report1486.html. Infiltrating the "Pink Prize", the Academy Awards of the Pink Film: Not Only Erotic: Physical Sensation Report on the "Hidden Strength" of the Pink Film (ピンク映画界のアカデミー賞ともいうべき<ピンク大賞>に潜入エロだけじゃないピンク映画の"底力"を体感レポート! - Pinku eigakai no Akademiisho to moiumeki "Pinku taishō" ni sennyu: Erodakejanai pinku eigo no "sokochikara" wo taikan report!). 2008-05-12. 2004-04-30. 2010-02-07 . Walker Plus. ja.
  2. Web site: Toda. Miho. https://web.archive.org/web/20080213075036/http://www.walkerplus.com/movie/report/report3435.html. 2008-02-13 . "Pink Prize": What Should Be Called the Academy Awards of the Pink Film World: Sora Aoi, Yumika Hayashi Among Those Present, Close Coverage of this Yearly Festival (ピンク映画界のアカデミー賞というべき"ピンク大賞"蒼井そら、林由美香らが来場する、年に一度の祭典に密着! - Pinku eigakai no akademii sho to iubeki "Pinku taisho" Aoi Sora, Hayashi Yumikaraga raijosuru, toshi ni ichido no saiten ni mitchaku). 2004-05-06. 2009-08-13 . Walker Plus. ja.
  3. Web site: Toda. Miho. https://web.archive.org/web/20080117235634/http://www.walkerplus.com/movie/report/report4823.html . 2008-01-17. "Pink" Films Seen with Great Excitement on the Shinbungeiza Theater's Big Screen! The Academy Awards of the R-18 Film "19th Pink Prize" (新文芸坐の大スクリーンで観る"ピンク"な映画に大興奮! R-18映画のアカデミー賞こと<第19回ピンク大賞>は立見続出!!! - Shinbungeiza no dai screen de miru "Pink" na eiga ni daikofun! R-18 eiga no akademiisho koto "Dai 19kai pinku taishō" wa tachikenzokushutsu!!). 2007-05-08. 2009-08-13. Walker Plus. ja.
  4. News: Sharp. Jasper. Pink thrills: Japanese sex movies go global. 2008-12-04. 2009-01-23. The Japan Times.
  5. Web site: Toda. Miho. http://channel.slowtrain.org/news/news_bn2004_1/news20040430/index1.html. ja:ピンク映画ファン待望の一夜… 狂喜乱舞(?)の祭典<ピンク大賞>に密着!. 2004-04-30. 2009-01-18. Slowtrain. ja. dead. https://archive.today/20040603165114/http://channel.slowtrain.org/news/news_bn2004_1/news20040430/index1.html. 2004-06-03.
  6. Book: Sharp, Jasper. Behind the Pink Curtain: The Complete History of Japanese Sex Cinema. 315. 2008. FAB Press. Guildford. 978-1-903254-54-7.
  7. Sharp, Behind the Pink Curtain (2008). p. 379.
  8. Web site: 3. The Appearance of AV, and the Death of Roman Porno: The Pink Film in Crisis (3. AVの登場とロマンポルノの終焉 ピンク映画の危機(1982-1989) - 3. AV no tōjō to roman porno no shūen: pinku eiga no kiki (1982–1989)). January 22, 2009. Biglobe. ja. ピンク映画専門のミニコミ「NEW ZOOM-UP」創刊。第一回ピンク大賞を選出し、授賞式を亀有名画座で行う.
  9. News: Fading shades of pink . Bull . Brett . August 12, 2012 . The Japan Times Online . . March 14, 2019.
  10. Web site: Best Ten of 2004 (2004年度ベストテン). 2009-01-18. P.G. Web Site. ja. 2015-07-07. https://web.archive.org/web/20150707150014/http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~p-g/award/2004.htm. dead.
  11. Web site: http://www.walkerplus.com/movie/report/report3435.html. ja:ピンク映画界のアカデミー賞というべき"ピンク大賞" 蒼井そら、林由美香らが来場する、年に一度の祭典に密着!. 2007-05-08. 2009-01-18. www.walkerplus.com. ja. 2008-03-15. https://web.archive.org/web/20080315154352/http://www.walkerplus.com/movie/report/report3435.html. dead.
  12. News: Kamiyama. Masuo. The sultry secrets of AV starlets' prolonged careers. Mainichi Shimbun. 2005-10-22.
  13. Web site: Best Ten of 2006 (2006年度ベストテン). January 18, 2009. P.G. Web Site. ja. August 5, 2012. https://archive.today/20120805233857/http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~p-g/award/2006.htm. dead.
  14. Book: Naoi, Takatoshi . Yoshiyuki Hayashida . Kiichiro Yanashita . YUMIKA HAYASHI : A Portrait of the Actress as a Young Woman (女優 林由美香 Joyu Hayashi Yumika). Eiga hiho collection (Movie treasure collection). 2006. Yosensha. Tokyo. 978-4-86248-072-9.