Motoki's Free Trade in Flesh (肉体自由貿易, Nikutai Jiyū Bōeki) was one of only four pink films made in 1962.
[15][19] The year 1970 also encapsulated the brief pink film career of science fiction author Izumi Suzuki, who made a number of films with Million under the stage name Naomi Asaka, including A Virgin at Play (処女の戯れ), White Paper on the Violation of Prostitutes: Sexual Violence (売春暴行白書・性暴力を斬る), and A Woman's Sexual Development (女性の性徴期).
[21] Yokohama Cheyenne: Woman Swamp Zone (横浜シャイアン 女の湿地帯, Yokohama Shaian: Onna no Shicchi-tai) and New Bride: Mixed Up Figure (新妻 乱れ姿, Niizuma: Midaresugata) (both 1974) are significant both for being examples of surviving early pink films from an independent studio other than Shintōhō Eiga.
[11][32][33] Many of Tama's earlier films as an actress—often produced and directed by her husband Akitaka Kimata, or his son, Seiji Izumi—had also been released by Million.
[37][38] Takahashi introduced the noted horror-film director Kiyoshi Kurosawa to Million Film at the start of his career.
[39][40] Jasper Sharp writes that Kurosawa's script resembles a pink film tribute to Jean-Luc Godard as filtered through Rear Window (1954).
Nevertheless, Million Film gave Kurosawa a second chance to direct, with his script College Girl: Shameful Seminar.
[39] After his experience with Million, Kurosawa left the pink film genre behind, finding success in the yakuza and horror fields.
[42] In 1984, the Japanese Prosecutor's Office decided to enforce the Moral Sensibility law more strictly, targeting pink film theaters, their advertising, and the studios.
[43] Hoping to prevent drastic actions, representatives of the pink film studios met with Eirin, the police and the prosecutor's office.
The result of this meeting, known as "the Ice Age summit", was that the studios agreed to a set of conditions in exchange for a promise of leniency from the authorities.
[44] The result of the studios' compliance with these new rules was disastrous for the pink film industry, with box-office attendance dropping 36% in the first month of their implementation.
[45] Actress Kiyomi Itō debuted at Million, in director Ryūji Akitsu's April 1984 release, High School Girl: Thrill of the Chase (女高生猟色, Jokōsei: Ryōshoku).
[46][47] Itō went on to become controversial director Hisayasu Satō's favorite leading actress after working in his debut film, Mad Love!
Bizarre Experience: Dreamy (猟奇体験 夢性, Ryōki Taiken: Musei), released in September 1985, was a pink science-fiction fantasy which provided director Tsutomu Watanabe with his career debut.
[25] The closing of the studio's production facilities resulted in the stalling of the debut of prominent "Four Heavenly Kings of Pink" (ピンク四天王, pinku shitenno) director Toshiki Satō for two years.
The Humax Group currently includes Joypack Cinema which produces and distributes non-pink films, and runs several theaters in Tokyo.