How Japan’s Tragedies Are Affecting Its Film Industry

http://www.indiewire.com/article/2011/04/12/how_the_tragedy_in_japan_affects_its_film_industry

 

Oddly enough, England believes that “pink cinema,” Japan’s softcore porn industry, may bear the greatest brunt. “Many of the theaters showing these films are old and have been torn down over the past few years,” he says. “The quake has exasperated this. Many theaters up north showing these films were destroyed and there are no plans to build new cinemas, so the quake is quite possibly the final nail in the pink cinema coffin.”