Thursday, June 21, 2012

In Praise of Honoka Kurusu

Today we pause to take a look back at a rare delicacy: Honoka Kurusu (来栖ほのか). The images of her you see on this post are taken from Honoka-san's November 2008 DVD for the Marx Brothers studio (no relation), whose title I've rendered in English as Bomber Boobs, Chubby Body: Honoka Kurusu (SMA-375), directed by Sarji. Honoka-chan seems to have been a one-hit wonder, making only the one DVD appearance, according to her Arzon profile. That first DVD no doubt provided the clips which appear in the three compilation DVDs also listed under her name. (Arzon is usually pretty good for getting a more complete listing of older DVDs and VHS titles than is available at most online sources since it includes out-of-print videos.) Her Amazon listing likewise only lists the first DVD and a compilation. Goolemon offers a very brief video clip surveying the Kurusu-ian landscape. Marx Brothers lists Honoka's measurements as a hefty 114-94-108(cm) or 45-37-43(in), sporting a Japanese J-cup brassiere.

Honoka-chan fits the Dekkappedlian bill of pocchari pulchritude in several ways. Besides the obvious, she is not a plastic, model-pretty girl, instead having a strong, earthy, motherly face. In this respect she is much like the classic "Imamura women" of that great director's early career, such as Masumi Harukawa in the great Intentions of Murder (1964). At right we see the early Dekkappai dream-gal, Ms. Harukawa in the 1981 TBS Home-Drama comedy, Tamanegi muitara... (玉ねぎむいたら…). Two decades after her starring role for Imamura, and she still looked like someone well worth coming home to. (Remind me to publish a post on her one of these days...)

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