By 1987, Kobayashi's popularity had already earned her the title "Queen of AV". Nikkatsu, which had been the leader of Japanese theatrical pornography since the inception of its "Roman Porno" series in 1971, was rapidly losing its audience to the AV industry. Though the studio had publicly condemned the AVs for years, in an attempt to lure some of Kobayashi's AV fans into the theater, Nikkatsu hired the AV Queen to star in her own series of films. The first of these, was released in January 1987. Thomas and Yuko Mihara Weisser, in their "Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: The Sex Films", judge the film as "little more than a Playboy or Penthouse lingerie special."