Roman(tic) pornos on the upswing in Japan

Saw this on World Sex News Daily:

Makers of soft-core porn have big dreams

Beneath an overpass of the JR Yamanote Line in Tokyo's Shinbashi district, the Shinbashi Roman Theater, which specializes in pornographic movies, quietly opens its doors.

Despite it being the middle of a weekday, men occupy about 60 percent of the theater's 96 seats. Some are sleeping, while others look at the screen with the sound of trains rumbling overhead.

"I drop in whenever I'm free," says a 58-year-old man who comes to the theater once a week. "With a rich variety, each movie is interesting.

"It is better to see a movie on a large screen," he adds.

The article reminds me of a past column in which I shared my epiphany about my changing tastes in porn from hard to soft. It mentions that the movies in question aren't just sex scenes, they have stories and "freedom and stimulation" not found in ordinary movies.

And mainly, that today's young "roman porno" filmmakers want to shake up the movie industry as a whole with their productions.