The first of these softcore pornographic film directed by Tetsuji Takechi, it was released in the United States in 1964.

In the years since the end of World War II, eroticism had been gradually making its way into Japanese cinema.

[5] Nudity and sex would officially enter the Japanese cinema with the independent, low-budget pink film genre.

[7] The first true pink film, and the first Japanese movie with nude scenes, was Satoru Kobayashi's controversial and popular independent production Flesh Market (Nikutai no Ichiba, 1962).

The film is a series of scenes visiting a variety of women such as female wrestlers, strippers, and geisha.

Shochiku would also distribute Takechi's next film, Daydream (1964) and gave it a major publicity campaign.