Pink Grand Prix#1998
{{short description|Award ceremony for erotic cinema}}
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The {{nihongo|Pink Grand Prix|ピンク大賞|pinku taishō}} or {{nihongo|PG Film Prize|PG映画大賞|PG eiga taishō|extra="Pink film festival" or "Pink Prize"}} 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",{{cite web |last=Toda|first=Miho| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080512020250/http://www.walkerplus.com/movie/report/report1486.html| url=http://www.walkerplus.com/movie/report/report1486.html|title=Infiltrating the "Pink Prize", the Academy Awards of the Pink Film: Not Only Erotic: Physical Sensation Report on the "Hidden Strength" of the Pink Film (ピンク映画界のアカデミー賞ともいうべき＜ピンク大賞＞に潜入エロだけじゃないピンク映画の"底力"を体感レポート！ - Pinku eigakai no Akademiisho to moiumeki "Pinku taishō" ni sennyu: Erodakejanai pinku eigo no "sokochikara" wo taikan report!)|archive-date= 2008-05-12| date=2004-04-30|access-date=2010-02-07 |publisher=Walker Plus|language=ja}}{{cite web |last=Toda|first=Miho|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080213075036/http://www.walkerplus.com/movie/report/report3435.html| archive-date=2008-02-13 |url=http://www.walkerplus.com/movie/report/report3435.html|title="Pink Prize": What Should Be Called the Academy Awards of the Pink Film World: Sora Aoi, Yumika Hayashi Among Those Present, Close Coverage of this Yearly Festival (ピンク映画界のアカデミー賞というべき"ピンク大賞"蒼井そら、林由美香らが来場する、年に一度の祭典に密着！ - Pinku eigakai no akademii sho to iubeki "Pinku taisho" Aoi Sora, Hayashi Yumikaraga raijosuru, toshi ni ichido no saiten ni mitchaku)|date=2004-05-06|access-date= 2009-08-13 |publisher=Walker Plus|language=ja}}{{cite web |last=Toda|first=Miho|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080117235634/http://www.walkerplus.com/movie/report/report4823.html |archive-date= 2008-01-17| url=http://www.walkerplus.com/movie/report/report4823.html|title="Pink" Films Seen with Great Excitement on the Shinbungeiza Theater's Big Screen! The Academy Awards of the R-18 Film "19th Pink Prize" (新文芸坐の大スクリーンで観る"ピンク"な映画に大興奮！ R-18映画のアカデミー賞こと＜第19回ピンク大賞＞は立見続出!!! - Shinbungeiza no dai screen de miru "Pink" na eiga ni daikofun! R-18 eiga no akademiisho koto "Dai 19kai pinku taishō" wa tachikenzokushutsu!!)|date=2007-05-08|access-date=2009-08-13|publisher=Walker Plus|language=ja}} the ceremony attracts a diverse audience of industry personnel, film scholars and the general public.{{cite news |last=Sharp|first=Jasper|url=http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/ff20081204r1.html|title=Pink thrills: Japanese sex movies go global|date=2008-12-04|access-date=2009-01-23|newspaper=The Japan Times}}
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 the Pink Grand Prix in April of each year as a review of pink films released the previous year.{{cite web|last=Toda|first=Miho|url=http://channel.slowtrain.org/news/news_bn2004_1/news20040430/index1.html|script-title=ja:ピンク映画ファン待望の一夜… 狂喜乱舞(？)の祭典＜ピンク大賞＞に密着！|date=2004-04-30|access-date=2009-01-18|publisher=Slowtrain|language=ja|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20040603165114/http://channel.slowtrain.org/news/news_bn2004_1/news20040430/index1.html|archive-date=2004-06-03}} 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.{{cite book |last=Sharp|first=Jasper|title=Behind the Pink Curtain: The Complete History of Japanese Sex Cinema|page=315|year=2008|publisher=FAB Press|location=Guildford|isbn=978-1-903254-54-7}}
History
PG magazine was founded by Yoshiyuki Hayashida in July 1994.Sharp, Behind the Pink Curtain (2008). p. 379. The magazine 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.{{cite web |url=http://www.uplink.co.jp/pinkribbon/bangai.html#3|title=3. The Appearance of AV, and the Death of Roman Porno: The Pink Film in Crisis (3. AVの登場とロマンポルノの終焉 ピンク映画の危機（1982-1989） - 3. AV no tōjō to roman porno no shūen: pinku eiga no kiki (1982–1989))|access-date=January 22, 2009|publisher=Biglobe|language=ja|quote=ピンク映画専門のミニコミ「NEW ZOOM-UP」創刊。第一回ピンク大賞を選出し、授賞式を亀有名画座で行う}}
Among actresses who have won the award multiple times are Yumika Hayashi,{{cite news |url=https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2012/08/12/national/media-national/fading-shades-of-pink/#.XIpPky2ZPOQ |title=Fading shades of pink |last= Bull |first=Brett |date=August 12, 2012 |newspaper=The Japan Times Online |publisher=The Japan Times |access-date=March 14, 2019}} recipient of the Best Actress award in 2004 and the Special Career Award the following year.{{cite web|url=http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~p-g/award/2004.htm|title=Best Ten of 2004 (２００４年度ベストテン)|access-date=2009-01-18|publisher=P.G. Web Site|language=ja|archive-date=2015-07-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150707150014/http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~p-g/award/2004.htm|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=http://www.walkerplus.com/movie/report/report3435.html|script-title=ja:ピンク映画界のアカデミー賞というべき"ピンク大賞" 蒼井そら、林由美香らが来場する、年に一度の祭典に密着！|date=2007-05-08|access-date=2009-01-18|publisher=www.walkerplus.com|language=ja|archive-date=2008-03-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080315154352/http://www.walkerplus.com/movie/report/report3435.html|url-status=dead}} After her death on June 28, 2005,{{cite news |last= Kamiyama|first= Masuo|title=The sultry secrets of AV starlets' prolonged careers|newspaper=Mainichi Shimbun|date=2005-10-22}} she was awarded a second Special Career Award at the 2006 Pink Grand Prix ceremony.{{cite web|url=http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~p-g/award/2006.htm|title=Best Ten of 2006 (２００６年度ベストテン)|access-date=January 18, 2009|publisher=P.G. Web Site|language=ja|archive-date=August 5, 2012|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120805233857/http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~p-g/award/2006.htm|url-status=dead}}{{cite book
|first=Takatoshi |last=Naoi|author2=Yoshiyuki Hayashida |author3=Kiichiro Yanashita |title=YUMIKA HAYASHI : A Portrait of the Actress as a Young Woman (女優 林由美香 Joyu Hayashi Yumika)|series=Eiga hiho collection (Movie treasure collection)|year=2006|publisher=Yosensha|location=Tokyo|isbn=978-4-86248-072-9}}