I don’t know how many conversations I’ve had since February in which someone trashed the Academy for giving last year’s Best Foreign Language Oscar to the milquetoast Japanese dramedy Departures over edgier festival favorites like The Class and Waltz with Bashir. Now, finally, someone is doing something to restore director Yojiro Takita’s reputation.

The New York Asian Film Festival has just announced that they plan to show two pink films (ie: short softcore features) by the Departures director during their program this summer. Both films are part of the “Molester Train” series, which, according to an IGN review, “explores the unfortunate practice of perverts taking advantage of crowded trains and subways in Japan to abuse female passengers … here fictionally played up for the cameras by AV starlets.” The two Yojiro Takita contributions include Molester Train: Search For the Black Pearl (which the NYAFF press release calls “ridiculous”), and Molester Train: Wedding Capricio. Dates for the screenings haven’t been set yet, but we’re marking our calendars to mark our calendars.