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A fact from Beautiful Mystery appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 10 July 2022 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that the 1983 pink filmBeautiful Mystery was one of the earliest commercially produced gay pornographic films in Japan?
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... that the 1983 pink filmBeautiful Mystery was one of the earliest commercially-produced gay pornographic films in Japan? Source: Behind the Pink Curtain: The Complete History of Japanese Sex Cinema
ALT1: ... that the 1983 pink filmBeautiful Mystery, a satire of writer and nationalist Yukio Mishima, was one of the earliest commercially-produced gay pornographic films in Japan? Source: Behind the Pink Curtain: The Complete History of Japanese Sex Cinema
Comment: "Pink film" is not a generally recognized term, but I thought it sounds intriguing and suggestive enough that an inquiring reader might get its general meaning from the context of the hook.
The criteria are met and no copyvio detected. The hook is also cited to gaycinema.info, which looks like a self-published source but is in fact run by the distributor, so I guess it's an acceptable primary source (though the claim borders on WP:EXCEPTIONAL—"one of" is doing heavy lifting). I don't have access to the book so I AGF. The writer has a PhD in Japanese cinema. A minor quibble is that the hook violates MOS:HYPHEN.
ALT2: ... that the 1983 pink filmBeautiful Mystery was one of the earliest commercially produced gay pornographic films in Japan?
Mentioning Mishima makes some sense as it probably comes as a surprise to those who already have an idea of who he was (one doesn't expect him as a subject of pornographic satire, much less from 1983), but I wonder if "nationalist" is really necessary. I don't think anyone disputes that he was one, but the juxtaposition with "writer" might seem awkward or undue so one might as well do away with both. Also I believe "satire on" is better.
ALT3: ... that the 1983 pink filmBeautiful Mystery, a satire on Yukio Mishima, was one of the earliest commercially produced gay pornographic films in Japan?
