Japanese Movie Database lists 399 films released in Japan during 1962. The five major studios released 375 feature films this year, of which 200 were in color; 295 were gendai-geki, set in the modern era, and 80 were jidai-geki, set in historical times. Film critic Tadao Satō names as significant Japanese releases of the year, Satsuo Yamamoto's Shinobi no Mono, Kirio Urayama's A Street of Cupolas, Yoshishige Yoshida's Akizu Hot Springs, and Masaki Kobayashi's Harakiri. Popular films which spawned long-running series were the comedy, The Age of Irresponsibility in Japan, and the jidai-gedi, Zatoichi: The Tale of Zatoichi. Japanese film historians consider the Pink film genre to have started in 1962 with the release of Satoru Kobayashi's Flesh Market.