Showa Bungeisha

What the shop is

Showa Bungeisha Net Honten (昭和文芸社 ネット本店) calls itself the official mail-order site of Showa Bungeisha. The commerce notice names the seller as 昭和文芸社, run by 株式会社 エー・アンド・イー (A and E) from an address in Chuo ward, Tokyo. It sells physical discs only: DVDs and some Blu-rays of adult feature films, shipped to the buyer. The pages describe no streaming, no download and no paid membership.

Everything on the site is in Japanese. There is no English interface, no English support line and no statement about customers outside Japan. The pages also publish no general statement on whether the discs are mosaic-censored. A reader who does not read Japanese should treat this as a collector's shop for buyers in Japan, and the billing section below shows why.

What it carries and how it is organized

The biggest shelf is Nikkatsu Roman Porno (日活ロマンポルノ), the studio line of theatrical adult films. The shelf reports 448 items over 23 pages. Each product entry gives the title, a running time in minutes, a product number beginning A-C, and a copyright line naming Nikkatsu Corporation (日活株式会社). The first screen of that shelf shows years from 1968 to 1992 in those copyright lines. Most entries are single DVDs; some combine 2 films under one product number, a few are marked BD for the Blu-ray edition, and one is a 2-film set built around a singer-actress. Many product titles end with a performer's name.

The second named shelf is Okura Eiga (大蔵映画), with 30 items. Its discs run about 70 minutes and carry the copyright line OP PICTURES. They are priced as a flat group, and one is marked sold out. The home page also advertises pink-film collections under the heading 厳選！ピンク映画コレクション, sold as multi-disc boxes.

Beyond those 2 shelves the store is organized by the way it has always been sold:

• Nikkatsu's Swedish-made titles (日活スウェーデンポルノ), 2 discs with 1973 copyright lines.
• The Emmanuelle series (エマニエル夫人 and エマニュエル), including a 7-disc collection, and a DVD line described as produced by Penthouse.
• Imported erotic cinema sets under names such as 世界の官能ドラマ and 海外官能名作シリーズ.
• Themed boxes, for example 昭和の人妻 (Showa-era married women) in 4-disc sets, working-women and mature-women collections in 6-disc and 10-disc boxes, and a 20-disc set of erotic dramas that were shown on CS television.
• Feature films from outside the adult trade, such as 4K restored editions of feature films, listed beside the adult titles.
• Hardware for the same customer: portable DVD players sit in the catalog groups next to the box sets.

The site does not present label pages, release calendars or performer rankings. The home page instead shows a recommended list, a top-sellers list, and a long block of items tied to the shop's newspaper and magazine advertising. The menu links to a list of newspaper ads (新聞広告一覧), a list of magazine ads (雑誌広告一覧) and a list of featured collections announced in them. The category menu also carries numbered catalog pages, from catalog No. 398 to No. 528 on the pages read, along with flyers, a mail magazine and a kunoichi (female ninja) series, and the feature blocks on the home page name the catalog number and the page range each one reproduces. A reader who saw a set in a Japanese paper can look it up by that number.

Finding a title works through the category menu (Nikkatsu Roman Porno, Okura Eiga, catalog numbers, newspaper and magazine lines), an order-by-product-name page, and a printable FAX order form. A shopper can also request a free catalog with a DVD attached, limited to one title per household. Registered net members get a login with an order history and editable account details.

The shop is a DVD retailer in the plain sense. The pages show no previews, no streaming player and no rental window, so what you buy is the disc and its jacket information.

The Japan mechanics

The operator and its country are stated plainly. The seller notice, published under Japan's specified commercial transactions law (特定商取引法), lists the company name, a Tokyo street address, a telephone number, a FAX line open around the clock, an email address, and office hours of 9:30 to 18:00 on weekdays, closed on weekends, holidays, 13 to 15 August and the year-end break. It also names a responsible manager, and it says customer details are not passed to third parties except for delivery.

On mosaic the shop gives no rule. What the pages do show are edition notes inside individual product names: 4K restore, HD remaster, and on a few imported films the word 無修正 (unretouched). The Nikkatsu and Okura shelves carry no such note, so the status of a given disc has to be read from its own product entry.

On language and overseas use the pages are thin. There is no English text and no sentence about shipping outside Japan, and the shipping rates are written for domestic zones only (nationwide, with a surcharge for Okinawa, islands and some remote areas). The notice also sets an age condition of 20 or older for buyers.

Price, access and billing

Buying is per disc. There is no subscription and nothing recurs. Orders go through the cart system, where member login and registration are offered, or through the FAX form or the order-by-product-name page. The notice lists 3 payment methods: postal transfer (郵便払込), cash on delivery (代金引換) and cash on delivery collected at a post office counter (郵便局留代金引換). Its fee line adds that for convenience-store payment and postal transfer the customer bears the transfer fee. The portable players are an exception that the product entries spell out: they are sold by cash on delivery only. The pages do not list credit cards, PayPal, prepaid points or any payment route that works from an overseas card or address.

Delivery is stated as 4 to 15 days after the order is accepted. Returns and exchanges are accepted within 8 days of arrival, for unopened items only, and the customer pays shipping and fees for a change of mind. Items damaged in transit are replaced with new ones at the shop's expense. On tax the pages speak with two voices: product prices are labeled tax included (税込), and product entries explain that prices printed in the product images are tax-exclusive figures from before December 23, 2020, while the notice still describes tax as shown separately at the standard rate.

In October 2026 many single Nikkatsu Roman Porno DVDs on the first screen of that shelf were listed at 3,300 yen (tax included), a 2-film set at 6,160 yen, and Blu-ray editions at 4,620 yen. The Okura Eiga shelf listed its 70-minute discs at 2,500 yen. The DVD-attached catalog request showed 0 yen. Packing and shipping was a flat 1,300 yen nationwide, with a further 1,500 yen added for Okinawa, islands and some remote areas, and cash on delivery added a 600 yen fee.

Who it suits and who it does not

It suits a collector in Japan who wants older Japanese adult cinema as physical discs, in particular Nikkatsu Roman Porno and Okura Eiga, and who can read Japanese and pay by postal transfer or cash on delivery. It also suits a buyer who found a box set through a newspaper or magazine ad and wants to find the same catalog number online.

It is a poor fit for a reader outside Japan, for anyone who wants English pages or a card checkout, and for someone looking for new studio releases, performer pages or a streaming library. One caveat is that parts of the storefront look old: every page still carries a year-end closure notice for 2020 and 2021 above a note that system maintenance has finished, so the dates on its notices should not be read as the shop's present terms.