Yōjirō Takita
Yamamoto filmed "Love Hotel" for Tōkyō Kōei and it was released theatrically in Japan by Shintōhō Eiga in September 1968. With this film, Yamamoto found the style which would make him one of the most popular "pink film" directors for the next decade. His films of this period, such as the 15-film "Widow's Boarding House" series and his "Women's Onsen" films, are known for an interest in people living in group settings, and for a light, comical touch which was in direct contrast to most contemporary "pink" cinema, which tended to be darker in subject-matter. Even more so than the "Widow's Boarding House" scenario, which has been taken up by other directors, Yamamoto's "Molester's Train" series, which he started in 1975, has proven a prolific series of "pink" comedies. Academy Award-winning director Yōjirō Takita made the series his own in the 1980s, and "Molester's Train" films were still being made in the new millennium.