Welcome to my collection of promotional materials for Nikkatsu’s Roman Porno series of movies. Each blog entry represents one film and has whatever items I have found that relate to that movie. If you go by the date of my last blog entry it doesn’t look like much is happening. But behind the scenes I am continually finding new material and adding these to the existing blog entries. Click on the What's New heading in the sidebar to see what new items I have added.
Consider this blog a work in progress. I do this for my own amusement so the information presented here is my own interpretation.
This blog is a somewhat awkward format to showcase such a large collection of movies (over 1100) but I have offered several ways to look around. There is a movie title index, a gallery of posters grouped by year of release and a listing of common fetishes to search through. I also have an index of actresses with pictures (when I could find them) with their Nikkatsu filmography. When I find enough interesting material related to Nikkatsu and the pink film industry I add them to the sidebar.
Nikkatsu promoted their films and actresses in newspapers, magazines, books and records. Their films played in Nikkatsu owned theaters and used various posters, lobby cards and movie stills to advertise each new release. Ads and catalogs offered their theatrical films for private home viewing in 8mm film, VHS and high definition Laserdisc. Also edited movie soundtracks were sold on 8 track and cassette audio tape.
They also offered numerous direct-to-video movies. These were made with the same directors and actresses used in their theatrical productions but were lower budget films that usually ran for around 30 minutes. Under their logo Nikkatsu sold VHS's of edited pink movies produced by other studios and various hard and soft core foreign imports from Europe and the US.
Below are some examples of what Nikkatsu produced to promote their films. Not all of these materials were used for each movie. For example trading cards, calendar cards and telephone cards only started to show up in the 1980’s. The sizes listed for these items are approximate.
THEATRICAL POSTER
(B2 - 51 x 73 cm / 20.3 x 28.7 in)
THEATRICAL POSTER - Standing signboard
Two B2 sized posters stacked vertically
(STB - 51 x 146 cm / 20.3 x 57.4 in)
PRESS RELEASE OR SPEED POSTER
A poster that was printed to announce a new movie to the press. Notice the various sizes
of Nikkatsu's logo and the movie title on the left hand side. Newspapers and magazines
used them for creating ads. The color side reads vertically and the B&W
side reads horizontally. The widths of these posters could vary in size.
(B4 - 25 x 73 cm / 10 x 28 3/4 in)
(B4 - 73 x 17 cm / 28 3/4 x 6 3/4 in)
CHIRASHI
This was a small flyer or handout with an image of the poster
on the front and copy and images on the back.
(B5 - 18 x 26 cm / 7 x 10 in)
NEW ACTRESS POSTER
A poster that introduces a new actress and their first movie for Nikkatsu.
(B4 - 25 x 73 cm / 10 x 28 3/4 in)
ADVERTISING POSTERS
(B2 - 51 x 73 cm / 20.3 x 28.7 in)
These posters advertised the release of the next upcoming set of movies.
LOBBY CARDS
These were issued to theater owners in sets of 4.
(36 X 26 cm / 14 x 10 in)
PHOTOS FOR THEATER DISPLAY (Style 1)
Borderless black and white glossy photos with logo and title. Issued in sets of 8.
(15 x 11 cm / 6 x 4 1/4 in)
PHOTOS FOR THEATER DISPLAY (Style 2)
Borderless black and white glossy photos without logo and title. Issued in sets of 8.
(15 x 11 cm / 6 x 4 1/4 in)
PHOTOS FOR THEATER DISPLAY (Style 3)
(15 x 11 cm / 6 x 4 1/4 in)
Borderless black and white glossy photos with logo, title and a seal. Issued in sets of 8.Due to growing public outrage in the early 80's of the exposed breasts in Nikkatsu's posters and photos that were displayed outside their theaters restrictions were placed on what could and could not be shown. Exposed nipples were now not allowed to be shown and depictions of violent content were toned down. Posters and photos now carried a new seal of approval, the small round logo.
PHOTOS FOR THEATER DISPLAY (Style 4)(25 x 20 cm / 10 x 8 in)Glossy black and white photos with a white border, logo, title and a seal. Issued in sets of 5.
MAGAZINE ADVERTISING
Movies were promoted in general movie magazines, girlie magazines and adult magazines
as short articles, photo spreads and as ads for upcoming releases.
NEWSPAPER ADVERTISING
Nikkatsu usually released movies in sets of two or three films every two weeks or so.
TRADING CARDS
In the mid to late 80's Nikkatsu put out two series of trading cards for
various movies. The first series featured the poster with a selected scene.
The second series showed pictures of the actresses from various scenes.
CALENDAR CARDS
Handy cards showing your favorite actress and 6 months of time.
TELEPHONE CARDS
These displayed Nikkatsu's actresses in various poses usually
derived from one of the movies they starred in.
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