Friday, April 27, 2012

Heavy Lifting Done!

Except for 5 posters I still can't identify, I've finished the last task of the Pink Film Archive projects: identifying and sorting 1,380 posters at the Nakamura Eigeki site. Lending an appropriately hushed, but intense solemnity to the occasion, the task was completed while listening to Arvo Pärt's Te Deum album. If any boob-fans out there are looking for a good entry into Pärt's oeuvre, I recommend this one without reservation. The only thing now remaining is the starting of entries for the new films illustrated by the Nakamura posters, then my Pink Film Archive projects are, basically, done! Constant maintenance will be required, of course-- new movies, and newly-discovered posters of old films, including scanning some images from books and magazines in my collection. There is also a fairly large backlog of images of older films (1960s & 1970s) needing to be cleaned and uploaded.

I began this project of accumulating images of posters to several thousand Pink Films back in 2006, mistakenly thinking that Wikipedia would welcome this kind of dedication to an encyclopedic coverage of a film genre. After learning otherwise, and shopping around for some place to offer this work, I started the Pink Film Archives at Blogspot in October 2011. And uploading that work is now, basically... DONE! No need to worry now about the loss of those hours spent locating, sifting through and identifying those posters, in the event of sudden incapacitation, death or even disk crash. My legacy is secure... Yet, as if to remind me of the impossibility of the project ever truly being finished, I see that OP Eiga has just put out their monthly crop of four new large poster images-- three new films and a re-release.

Now that the heavy lifting is over, let's sit back and watch Miss LUU do her own heavy lifting in this image from her blog. She makes the job seem so much more pleasant.

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Coco-chan wa koko

In Boobpedlian news, the fine folks at IZM have announced their latest opus, Muchimuchi man-niku TANK (むちむち満肉TANK - IZM-184) starring the imminently qualified Ms. Coco (left and below).











The completion of uploading the backlog to my Pink Film Archive nears today as I finish the first run-through of the Nakamura Eigeki sorting project: the numerical listing of posters. Now I just have to run through the alphabetical lists-- which sometimes have slightly better images and fuller film descriptions-- and sort them into my film files, then I'm done with this part of the Pink Film Archive work. Still remaining will be only smaller projects: Cleaning old posters and scanning images from books and magazines... and, of course, eternal vigilance and constant updates... and linking it all into IMDb...

Sunday, April 22, 2012

All the Boob News that's Fit to Print

As far as work on the Pink Film archives, I spent most of the week sorting and categorizing several dozen large (400px) Pink film poster images from Shizukatsu Theatre. I had dug them up out of a search through the Internet Archive a few years ago, back when I was under the mistaken impression that "the sum of human knowledge" included Japanese cinema, cult films, and softcore erotic cinema, and that contributions to these realms of knowledge would be welcome. Anyway, that work is not wasted, since these posters will soon be posted at my Pink Film blog(s), and eventually linked from IMDb. I'm back to sorting through the Nakamura Eigeki 181-px posters now.

Several events in the Japanese branch of the Boobpedian universe demand our attention today. Since CNN has probably neglected these news stories, allow me to present them. First, the great Miyabi Hayama made her final public appearance today, according to the IZM blog. Say goodbye to Miyabi, above right. Gone but never to be forgotten.

Though Ms. Hayama's magnificent presence will be sorely missed, IZM's stable of big, beautiful, bouncy babes still thrives. Iori Kuroki announced a new IZM DVD, Bakunyû chi-fujin (爆乳痴夫人; ICD-183). Madam Kuroki would probably be much more a favorite of mine had I not seen images of her smoking... Smoking, piercing or tattoos... Dekkappai just says, "No". Dekkappai says "Yes" to booze!





The grand Ms. Sara Aikawa, at right, appears in her new IZM DVD Chô shiri nikukai (超尻肉塊; ICD-182). And below, our protagonist in the video measures up the Herculean labor ahead of him.












Meanwhile over at the JAMS' blog, new images of the always-welcome Tamaki Yasuoka have been posted. Here she is, at left, in her JAMS DVD, WZA-04.

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Pink Wives

Enjoyed the Pink comedy, The Japanese Wife Next Door (2004) with my wife and a sip of 18-year Chivas this evening. The scrumptious Reiko Yamaguchi (right) stars in the title role, giving both an adequate acting job, and enough sex appeal to keep the usually boring sex scenes interesting. Apparently, from what I can determine, this is actually the second film in the duet which Jasper Sharp translates/reviews as "Family Gets Rude". This one is Family Gets Rude Chapter 2: Unequalled Limits (淫乱なる一族 第二章 絶倫の果てに - Inran naru ichizoku: Daini-shô: Zetsurin no hate ni; 2004; theatrical poster: below, left), re-released in 2007 as Sex family 2: Hanayome wa do-inran (セックスファミリー2 花嫁はド淫乱; theatrical poster: below, right). The story concerns a young guy who unknowingly marries a nymphomaniac. Their acrobatic sex wears him out, so she then screws around with his father, next his grandfather, and even works her way over to his frigid sister. It's a good thing the family didn't have a dog! Good old "Mister Pink", Yutaka Ikejima, directed it from a script by his own wife, the prolific Kyôko Godai.
Ikejima's presence also provides this Pink Eiga DVD with some interesting, enthusiastic and informative extras. Eight out of Ten stars from me. My wife enjoyed it too, though she claimed she didn't. Yeah, right, if she doesn't like Pink films, why did she insist I put on Whore Angels after it?

Monday, April 9, 2012

More Toudou with Karen

I spent most of my online time today polishing and posting a few entries to this blog. While doing so I came across a hoard of new pictures of the always-welcome Karen Toudou from her QDN-08 DVD. A considerable percentage of my time online was spent capturing these. Above left you see just one of the many fine and upstanding images from this haul. And at right you can see one more offering from this evening's crop, in which she is relieving some of the strain from her over-stuffed kimono. It's back to Pink Film Archive work tomorrow-- I'll probably start by posting the findings from the past week.


Last night's delving into the realm of B-cinema brought up I Am a Criminal (1938), another in the long and prolific, but lackluster filmography of director William Nigh whose career I seem to be unintentionally following lately. This is actually an above-average effort from the director, for Monogram Pictures. It starts out looking like a typical crime film, as its title, reminiscent of I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932) led me to expect. But after an early, talky showdown between the new DA and the town's big racketeer, it took a left turn at Albah-koiky and turned into a warm-hearted little buddy-film between the racketeer and an orphan. The ending was actually rather touching. Seven stars out of Ten-- So far in our survey of Nigh's oeuvre, this is his career high-point.

Sunday, April 8, 2012

Bulbasaurus Rex

I spent the day's online time making a big push to get the Nakamura Eigeki poster identification project completed. I made a pretty good dent in it, getting up to the last poster (#1399) but I have to go back and pick up a few pages of posters that didn't have text linked to them, which will make their identification much more difficult. The next step, after finishing with these numerical listings, will be to go through the alphabetic listings and swap out any posters that have better resolution. The alphabetic lists also sometimes have better identifying text-- including plot summaries.
I also downloaded the new batch of 15 large posters from the same site today. I found quite a few new films and posters. A highlight of the day's work was a new poster to the 2006 film Hadaka no sanshimai: Inkô in its 2010 re-release as Tonari no sanshimai yari kurabe (隣の三姉妹 やりくらべ; seen above left). Starring the lovely Sakurako Kaoru (right) and picking up awards for Best Film (10th), Best New Director (Yasufumi Tanaka) at the Pink Taishô, and Pearl Prize at the Pinky Ribbon Awards, it sounds like one worth looking for.


In anticipation of the announced Cheech & Chong reunion film my son has been interested in seeing one of their old films. I found a cheap copy of Cheech & Chong's Nice Dreams (1981), made an Easter gift of it and watched it with him (with Korean subtitles on for the wife). It was the first time for my wife to see one of these-- They were no doubt banned in Korea at the time of release, drug humor being off-limits. She laughed at times, but after the film claimed not to be at all favorably impressed. Come to think of it, even in the wilder Japanese cinema-- as extreme as it can go into sex and violence-- I can't think of any film genre there comparable to our own esteemed drug comedies. As I remember from the old days, Cheech and Chong's films usually started out with a few mildly funny little bits, then drifted off into dull aimlessness. Actually I think this is the first time I ever made it through to the end of one of their films. I wonder if the reunion film is going to be of the same low quality as these old brain-dead comedies, or if the ensuing decades will bring some improvement to their work together... Stupid, gross-out comedies can be fun, of course. They don't need to be god-awful. In fact I enjoy a good one now and then. We'll probably go and see the new one when it comes out no matter the reviews. I'll be prepared for the worst, but hold out dim hopes for better. As far as the old one we saw today: Got a couple real laughs out of it in the first half hour, then was bored for an hour. Six out of Ten. My son's at the age where he's a little too old for an Easter egg hunt, but he's still young enough to be disappointed not to have the Easter egg hunt, so the Cheech and Chong DVD made a good compromise. They now join his other not-to-be-emulated role models Harold and Kumar. Meanwhile, in these pics from her blog, the gorgeous LUU dons a Pokémon get-up to remind dear old Dad of innocent days not so long past. The thought of spending time playing with a couple Bulbasaurs never looked so tempting...

Saturday, April 7, 2012

Much Tôdô About Karen


In Boobpedia-worthy news, at left heavenly Karen Toudou announces her upcoming Hyperedge DVD: QDN-17. Ah, full-figured, intelligent-looking Asian women in glasses. Have I mentioned yet my great, life-long fondness for these? And Karen is one of the loveliest such models in the industry. I'm sure we who admire this type all look forward to further news from Ms. Toudou, and wish her well in her future career. Shall we use this as an excuse to recap her work to date? Yes, let's!


She first burst upon the scene in September 2007 inaugurating BBW-specialist director Timio Juvorenup's JAMS New Sexy Zone series with the DVD Ultra Buxom Woman!! Akiba Super Tits Girl (ウルトラボイン!!アキバ系超乳女子 - Urutoraboin!! Akibakei chônyûjoshi; SND-01). She seems to have stuck with JAMS throughout her DVD career. In March 2008 she appeared in the the studio's Three Sets of Super Tits: Made In Busty Girl (3連超乳 -メイド イン ボイン- - 3-ren chônyû: Meido in boin; SND-04), and at right we see her preparing for some heavy dusting in the December 2008 Big Boobs Dance 2 (Bodirasu 2 - ボディラス2; FGB-02).




In February 2009, she appeared in Glamour Idol Obscene Filming Association (グラマーアイドル淫虐撮影会; Guramaa aidoru ingyaku satsueikai; JXD-30). At left she prepares for action in the January 2010 release, Spit and Big Boobs Married Woman (Tsuba guchu boin tsuma: Muchi kosu hatsujô bokki kui Tôdô Karen - (唾ぐちゅボイン妻 むちコス発情勃起喰い 藤堂カレン; VOL-02).










At right she harries her poor working-stiff of husband, just home from the office and can't get no rest! in I Married Big Woman. She Eats Boners! She is Busty Covered with Saliva!! (Okusama wa kyo-onna: Bakushiri bokki kui! Tsuba-guchu boin! ! - 奥様は巨女 爆尻ボッキ喰い!唾ぐちゅボイン!!; April 2011 ; QDN-08, translated title courtesy of Fetish World)... Poor guy!







And above, in her last known appearance, before the one we are all now anticipating, the tables are turned on her. In this scene from the September 2011 Pocha Queen series DVD, Plump, Busty Woman! Marshmellow Body (ハミ乳豊満女子!おさまりきらないマシマロ膨張ボディー - Hami-nyuu houman joshi! Osamari kiranai mashimaro bouchou body; FAT-004) dear Karen takes a rest, unwittingly laying out too tempting a morsel for a fellow to resist.

After this reminiscence of Ms. Toudou's work, the evening's movie entertainment saw me returning to the theme of '30s horror icons mis-cast as Asians. (See March 7, when I took a look at Bela Lugosi in The The Mysterious Mr. Wong). Last night I saw The Fatal Hour (1940) with Boris Karloff as Mr. Wong, detective (no relation to Bela's Mr. Wong, evil coin collector). Karloff takes a different tack from Bela in playing Chinese. Bela hammed it to the hilt, putting on a "Chinese" accent, which came out very bizarre since it was colored by his own thick Hungarian accent. Karloff, on the other hand, plays Mr. Wong as... Karloff, pretty much. He's a bit more soft-spoken than usual, but other than that it's just Karloff. Interesting, except that Karloff doesn't look Chinese by any stretch of the imagination... I have it in a horror collection, which seems odd, since the film is just a middling-to-passable little poverty row mystery. Nothing horrifying about it except for the mis-cast Karloff when there were no doubt dozens of real Asian actors who could have played the role, and the murders inevitable in such mysteries. This is the fourth in Karloff's Mr. Wong series, directed by Monogram Pictures' competent, but pedestrian William Nigh. I give it a solid Five out of Ten.

Monday, April 2, 2012

Gang Busters

I spent my morning 20 minutes online returning to the Nakamura Eigeki project, starting at #AF501, which means I've got about 800 more posters to sift through (though, actually, about half have already been done). I stopped at #500 on Friday, then spent the weekend online time updating this blog, adding chit-chat to justify posting gratuitous images of plump Asian beauties and old movie posters. Speaking of the former, say "Howdy ma'am" to earth-goddess Tamaki Yasuoka at left.

You know, there really ought to be a place online where one can add serious information about an unlimited variety of topics, uncensored, even such traditionally despised fields as B-films and Japanese erotica... You know, sort of a "sum of human knowledge"... Oh right, one was started, but was destroyed from within by narrow-minded, pseudo-intellectual bigots and their nitwit stooges. My serious work goes now to the two Pink Film archives, Boobpedia, and IMDb, and here I chit-chat with myself, rather than co-workers at a larger project, to mull over things and keep it interesting... But then like any American who has lived through the past half century or so, I'm accustomed to seeing good ideas go spectacularly bad. And besides, I swore not to rant about that hellhole anymore. Instead let's say "HOWDY Ma'am!" to Ms. Rose Aoyama at right.

Seeing Guns Don't Argue (1957) the other day put me in the mood to see the film before it, Gang Busters (1955). Again, how much is true, and how much is just police-state fantasy/propaganda, I don't know, but I'd estimate 10% former, 90% latter. Again, it was an entertaining little 70 minutes or so if taken with a pound of salt. This one didn't have the big-name gangster power that Guns did. It told the story of the Public Enemy #4, John Omar Pinson and his even lesser-known cohorts. Pinson's shenanigans and multiple prison-breaks are re-enacted by Myron Healey (who played Dillinger in Guns). It seems kind of strange that they would use these stories for the first film and the big-name gangsters for the second, two years later. Anyway, it's another passably entertaining little cops & robbers yarn. I'd be interested to see the original TV series now. Five out of Ten.

Sunday, April 1, 2012

Dekkappai's Plumper Games!

My son dragged me to see The Hunger Games. I went in having no idea what it was about and not knowing what to expect. I began to realize it was supposed to be a (serious) political satire, but couldn't grasp its targets until it dawned on me what the cultural touchstones were here: Reality shows + Iraq = the United States of the past 20-30 years or so = the culture from which I have become so alienated I feel like a foreigner in my own country... Add to that the most nauseating of new camera techniques: constantly moving shaky-cam, random close-ups obscuring the action (during one fight, I didn't realize until it was over that the opponent was a girl), etc. And top it off with ludicrously obvious plot holes, glaring inconsistencies in character and motivation, heavy-handed audience manipulation, a stifling lack of humor, and I had one miserable time at the theater today. I could mention the obvious (and much better) sources stolen/borrowed from to concoct this social commentary (Lord of the Flies, Battle Royale, Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery", etc., etc., etc.), but that's an awfully cheap trick, one too low even for me... My son liked it, and I guess it would speak to a brooding teeny-bopper, which I can remember being once, about a century ago, so I watered down my complaints for him during our post-film discussion. Two stars out of Ten for me. Much higher, probably, if you are a young teen.


Given my taste in ladies, however, and the title of the film, it could have been much, much worse: Imagine if it had been a story about pouty, snotty anorexic models. I would have probably run out of the theater. As an antidote to that appalling vision, please join me in a visit with some lovely ladies of the past who, thankfully, appear not to have recently suffered from long bouts of hunger. And without further ado, Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you now The Anti-Hunger Games, Dekkappai's Plumper Games!

We begin our survey with a tribute to that classic, pioneer of the Japanese BBW genre, Yoko Koizumi, above left.


IZM's Erika (right) made only a couple of original DVDs for the studio (there is a more recent one which appears to be made of old material), but those few made an impact.






The diminutive Usagi Minagi (left), with her long background in the field is an essential pleasure in any discussion of the Japanese BBW.








Oppai label claims their Hitomi Matsumoto (aka Mozuku and Yumi Miyaoka) sets records in the bust department, but she is most obviously recognizable as an incredibly gorgeous BBW.







This year's games wind down with a four-part offering on a Wagnerian scale from another earlier Japanese BBW figure, Anna Watarai at left. And we conclude at the right with one of the grandest finales of all time, from the same model.