Shizuka Tachibana: TDPP-08

For tonight's look into the world of Japanese BBW AV, let's continue with Pocha-Bara / Angela's Pocharinko series, skipping ahead to the eighth video, released in January 2008. Our star tonight is the plump and homey Shizuka Tachibana whom we first looked at back in September 2012. This video, like yesterday's lists Shin'ichi Saiga (才賀真一) as director, cinematographer and editor. We suspect Saiga to be an alias of pioneering Japanese BBW photographer Jun'ichi Natsui.

The first scene consists of an interview. Shizuka's a smiling, charming lady and it's a pleasure to watch her and anticipate seeing her bodily charms on full display. The interview starts out with her dressed, she disrobes, then continues in the nude. She's very chubby, with a big belly, but her legs are not the best, rather skimpy for a girl of her bulk. The camera work is fine in the early part of the interview-- just a stationary shot of our model in full view. After she takes her clothes, however, the camera roaming and zooming in on Shizuka's body-- much as any guy's eye probably would, of course, but in a video this quickly becomes distracting. For long stretches of time all you see is a screen full of skin...

Shizuka takes a bubble bath in the next section. Bath scenes are always nice, and a staple of erotic photography and cinema... but Shizuka uses a lot of bubbles... and I mean a LOT of bubbles. For fifteen minutes we don't really get to see anything but her face in a sea of bubbles, and the occasional flash of an areola. The director finally gets the bright idea of having her get out of the tub. At this point we get a very quick view of her body, and she covers up her boobs with bubbles again! One begins to suspect there's a reason she's not showing us all... though we've already seen everything and there are no obvious scars, stretch-marks, moles or other blemishes... Maybe she's just shy about her body... After 20 minutes of this, there is a cut to a young man beginning to wash off Shizuka, and we think, "At last we're really going to see her", but this lasts less than one minute... At this point, we begin to get the idea something is wrong... This is either a very amateurish production, or there is some reason we are being intentionally prevented from enjoying Shizuka's form...

A mild bed sex scene with the mysterious young man follows. It is adequately done, though much body close-ups are again over-used. Another disrobing / sex scene in bed follows, with the same young man. This one is done better, is a little more interesting, with face-sitting and Shizuka on top...

Next, about an hour and a half into the video, comes another teaser: Shizuka is showering off, fully nude, and all visible to us. We think NOW we're going to really get to sink our teeth into her... but no, it ends after another minute... Another interview, with Shizuka fully nude on a couch, concludes the video proper.

After this comes the most interesting feature of the video. It's a ten-minute series of still shots mostly taken from the preceding hour and a half, a few of which seem to be new poses. As a fan of still images, I enjoyed this, and I took screenshots of each one to include with my files on this video. I'm not sure if this is the most effective use of a DVD, but it is a little different, and I got some use out of it... A half-hour preview of other titles in the series follows, giving us looks at a couple more of these early Japanese BBW titles we would especially like to see.

This video was not nearly as enjoyable as yesterday's in the same series and from the same director. First, Shizuka Tachibana is not as cute as Ren Nagasawa. Her rear-end and legs are not the best, and she doesn't have the prettiest face in the JAV industry, but I don't think that's the problem here. She is charming, cheerful, and cute enough, to make fine viewing for fans Asian BBWs. She's got a huge pair of boobs, and a big, soft belly, all of which I looked forward to enjoying before I watched the video. The fault here, I think, lies with director Saiga. There's not much to keep us interested here, just Shizuka on a couch, in the bath, and in bed. But volume Six was not any more varied in terms of setting. Yet in that one he gave us a fine, simple, straight-forward look at Ren-chan. In this video he pans and zooms incessantly (not as bad as some Hollywood action films today, but bad enough), and seems to consciously avoid giving us too much of a look at the full Shizuka in all her glory. I'll have to give this one a mid-negative recommendation... pending a more formal form of rating I should probably come up with soon...

Shizuka starred in at least one more video that I'm aware of, Bomber Boob Voluptuous Angel: P-Cup Shizuka Tachibana released in November 2008. This later video was Angela's entry in the 2009 AV Grand Prix, which, I hope, is an indication that it's better done. I'll keep my eyes open for that video, and look forward to visiting with Shizuka again.