Frog Song ( かえるのうた , Kaeru no uta ) originally released as Paid Companionship Story: Girls Who Want to Do It ( 援助交際物語 したがるオンナたち , Enjo-kōsai monogatari: shitagaru onna-tachi ) is a 2005 Japanese Pink film directed by Shinji Imaoka . It was chosen as Best Film of the year at the Pink Grand Prix ceremony. According to author Jasper Sharp, the title, "Frog Song" is a pun referring both to a full-sized frog costume found outside a train station and worn by one of the characters, and to the Japanese verb kaeru "to go home". The translation of the title of the film could thus also be "Going Home Song".
7-438: Akemi is a housewife who discovers her husband has been cheating on her. She makes the acquaintance of a prostitute who hopes to become a manga artist. Another hopeful manga artist, Kyoko, also makes ends meet by working as a part-time prostitute. Akemi moves in with Kyoko and tolerating the practise of her profession while the two come to an understanding of each other's lives. The Pink film community awarded Frog Song with
14-472: Is an annual Japanese film award ceremony which recognizes excellence in the pink film genre. Referred to by Miho Toda as the "Academy Awards of the Pink Film", the ceremony attracts a diverse audience of industry personnel, film scholars and the general public. Pink film scholar Jasper Sharp calls it the high point of the year for the pink film community. PG , a magazine focusing on the genre, hosts
21-503: Is under this title that the film is most widely known, and it has retained this title in international releases. Using the Frog Song title, Sacrament released the DVD with English subtitles in the U.S. on November 13, 2007. Pink Grand Prix The Pink Grand Prix ( ピンク大賞 , pinku taishō ) or PG Film Prize ( PG映画大賞 , PG eiga taishō , "Pink film festival" or "Pink Prize")
28-755: The Pink Grand Prix in April of each year as a review of pink films released the previous year. The top ten films are selected by a readers' poll, and the top five films are screened during the evening of the ceremony held at the Kameari-za theater in Aoto, Tokyo until its closing in 1999, and at the Shinbungeiza theater thereafter. PG magazine was founded by Yoshiyuki Hayashida in July 1994. The magazine
35-472: The musical scene which concludes the film, he writes, "...Another key to the popularity of Imaoka's films is that they often end on such uplifting high notes." The film was first released theatrically under the title Paid Companionship Story: Girls Who Want to Do It . As with many pink films it was retitled when it was released on DVD. It was first released as Frog Song on DVD in Japan on January 14, 2006. It
42-665: The title of Best Film at the Pink Grand Prix . Honors given to the film also included the Best Actress award, which was given to lead actress Konatsu , and Best New Actress for Rinako Hirasawa . Allmovie calls Frog Song a "playfully eccentric slice of pink cinema". In his Behind the Pink Curtain , Anglophone pink film scholar Jasper Sharp writes that it is the upbeat nature of Imaoka's films which have helped make them popular with film audiences. Pointing out
49-475: Was preceded by the limited-circulation New Zoom-up , which Hayashida started in 1989, and which held the first Pink Grand Prix awards beginning that year, covering films released in 1988. Among actresses who have won the award multiple times are Yumika Hayashi , recipient of the Best Actress award in 2004 and the Special Career Award the following year. After her death on June 28, 2005, she
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