GAS-325-327

Last night, rather than make this post on time, I finished the first step in my next IMDb BBW JAV project: the Pocha Pocha Princess Pretty series. I first added new info to the existing BP articles-- the main thing was getting the name of the director off the DVD covers. They were not always listed at informational web pages, but they are on the DVD cover images. There seems to be only one director for the entire series. I am giving his name as Alto Joa, but he varies his name a bit. At the beginning of the series he calls himself just "Joa" (ジョア). From #6 to #10 he is "Ultra Joa" (ウルトルジョア), and from #11 on, "Alto Joa" (アルトルジョア - ''lit.'' "Arutoru Joa"). I have no idea what this name is supposed to mean, or if I am translating it correctly. Since the middle version of his name ("Ultra Joa") seems to refer to Ultra Man (ウルトラマン), perhaps the last version of the name should actually be "Altra Joa"?... but that doesn't make much sense... Previously, in IMDb/BP work, I finished the IZM/ICD project-- starting articles on the ladies in the video stubs which I had started last week.

Usagi Minagi in the Pocha Pocha Princess Pretty series: now on IMDb!

The big news at IMDb, Pink film-wise, is that they have finally added the major award ceremony for the genre-- the Pink Film Award. I asked for it to be added in January, and only this week was it added. Like all submissions at IMDb, the process is extremely mysterious, confusing, frustrating and difficult to figure out, and the instructions are absurdly unhelpful... I spent a few hours hunting for an adequate explanation on how to add an award type to the main award page (i.e., Best Film, Best Actor), and never found it. There are pages and pages explaining how to add an award but not one of those pages tells you the page to add it to... they all  say to click "Edit page" at the front page. From there-- apparently, at least some of the pages say so-- you go to an "Awards Master Form" to enter all the info on the new award. But instead, when you click on that, it gives you a drop down menu of awards to add to the page. And it says "No awards have been entered for this event", and instructing you to go back to the main page, click "edit page", and repeat ad infinitum... I finally just submitted a Best Picture for 2013, adding "Best Picture" as a new field to be added in the "Award" field. I will wait to see if I get any decent instructions on how to do it correctly. IMDb communications are notoriously slow and unhelpful though, so I'm not holding out much hope for the near future... While I'm waiting to figure out how to enter awards correctly, the next major BP/IMDb updating project I should embark on is Cinema Unit GAS... and speaking of which, let's look in on Akira Takatsuki's pet project and see what he's up to lately:

GAS-325

118cm-K-cup newcomer Hana stars in the first of GAS' trio of new releases, all due out on July 1. The title: Shinjin: Chikubi ijirare suki no K-cup zutto ijitte, ippai sutte (GAS-325), tells us that Hana-san enjoys having her nipples sucked and played with-- apparently even if she has to do it herself, as the next image shows.

"Hana" in GAS-325

Stills like the one above had me at first thinking that this was MAGURO's famed Masked Kaori, but it turns out that this is just the traditional face-hiding habit of amateur/first-time models. In other scenes, she's not wearing the mask, but she hides her face with her hands.

"Hana" in GAS-325

Besides an impressive bust-- typical of Cinema Unit GAS models-- New Hana also has what advertising promotes as being a "foreigner-style" big butt, which we can admire up above. A video clip showing Hana's front and rear in action can be downloaded in WMV or MP4 format.

GAS-326

Bakunyû chijo Kimiko kaodashi! Kanô Kimiko (GAS-326) stars Kimiko Kanô, whom we met in a post of a couple months ago on the occasion of her own debut in GAS-319. A video clip promoting this sophomore effort can be seen in WMV or MP4 format.

Kimiko Kanô in GAS-326

After her own face-hiding first appearance (she wore large, dark sunglasses), this enticing "jukujo" (MILF) goes bare-faced and takes the traditional next step in the career of the aspiring AV actress: Unleashing her previously-supressed erotic desires by playing the role of the chijo, or "perverted woman".

GAS-327

Next month's last-numbered release is a compilation video, which I usually don't pay much attention to, since they're just re-hashes of previously-released material. This one, however, is the most interesting release of the month. First, it is the second release in conjunction with GAS' tenth anniversary (first celebrated in the career retrospective DVD release, GAS-321), but this is a retrospective not only of GAS' output, but of the entire big-boob genre in Japanese AV over the past 20 years. A FASCINATING subject! Second, just showing GAS' own models would give a fairly wide view of this genre, but Takatsuki has engaged the cooperation of other studios who played a significant role in the JAV big-boob genre: Kimiko Matsuzaka-discoverer Tôru Muranishi's Diamond Video, Mariko Morikawa-debuting VCA, JHV, Atlas 21, and Moodyz. It is titled GAS 10 shûnenkinen sakuhin: Bakunyû no 20-nen, joyû 100-nin 8-jikan (GAS-327), and a video clip in WMV or MP4 format is available.

Diamond Visual's Kimiko Matsuzaka

Though the 20-year mark would be the anniversary of the legendary Mariko Morikawa's debut-- the first JAV BBW star, in my book-- it's good that this will cover Kimiko Matsuzaka also, since she was the real start of the "Big Bust Boom" (kyonyû boom), with her debut in 1989. (Some emphasis is placed here on the Kimiko Matsuzaka-era term "kyonyû" as opposed to "bakunyû" era introduced with Mariko Morikawa's debut in 1994). Having lived through those eras, and followed them from inside and outside Japan, I can speak with a little knowledge myself. I remember opening up a magazine in a Japanese bookstore in 1988 and being hit between the eyes by Kimiko's magnificent bazooms, and realizing that JAV would never be the same again-- and thankfully, Kimiko was just the beginning! She became a star in Japan, appearing in mainstream media and TV shows. The big boob movement was underway, and all the studios searched out bigger boobs to display.

VCA's Mariko Morikawa

The caption above calls Mariko Morikawa Japan's first "bakunyû"-- "Bomber boob" or huge-boob-- model. GAS/Takatsuki no doubt wants to emphasize the term bakunyû, since he is the one who coined the term, which has since become a common word in Japanese boob-related vocabulary. Also, Mariko was literally the first bakunyû girl, since she was the star of the first video in the "bakunyû" series-- The Bomber Tits Vol. 1: Bomber Girl. Though her boobs certainly were the most impressive and promoted aspect of her body, I see her more as the first step towards true BBW acceptance in the JAV. As luck would have it, I was in Japan in November 1994, right at the time that Mariko Morikawa made her debut and shook up the JAV industry with her ultra-voluptuous body. I bought a copy of "D-Cup Japan" at that time, and was as impressed with her as I had been with Kimiko five years before. No actress before Mariko had been so chubby, and yet popular. This was the dawn of the BBW genre in JAV that we so enjoy today.

GAS' own Hana Uehara

In this DVD, one hundred big-boob actresses, including GAS stalwarts Chiharu Mizushima, Maria Tachibana, Shinobu Hosokawa, Yûri Kimitsu, Ellen Jo, Seri Ishiguro, Mitsuki An, YUNA, Kira Namikaze, Mei Kobayashi, Reiko Nakamori, Hana Uehara, and Mona Yûki  all get their due.

Alice Japan's Anna Ohura

Major non-GAS big-boob legends who are covered here include Anna Oura, Shiori Fujitani, Miki Sawaguchi, Ayami Sakurai, Marina Matsushima, Sayuki Kanno, Ai Kurosawa, Shiori Tsukada, Chichi Asada, and Hitomi Tanaka. Not only will this DVD give the fan of Japanese big boobs an interesting historical perspective, it should truly be a feast for the eyes!