Pocha Pocha 3 (Heavy & King-Weight)

The big news at IMDb is thatthe Pink Film Award page now contains my first successful submission: Best Director winner os 2014-- Mototsugu Watanabe. It is also listed on his page of awards. Dumb-ass that I am, Watanabe did not win Best Director this year-- he just directed the Best Picture. Yutaka Ikejima is Best Director this year... So I'm going to have to fix that screw-up. But, anyway, there is hope for this page after all! I'm considering whether to go ahead and enter all the Best Directors since 1988 first, or to do each year thoroughly later.

I finally finished adding the images to Pink film posters and DVD/VHS covers that I had acquired in the process of acquiring video files. That took much longer than I anticipated-- nearly a week-- but then I have been collecting video files for over half a year now. I'm going to have to make watching these movies a daily routine. I've enjoyed a very good percentage of those that I have watched, and look forward to seeing them all. Even ones that I have been dubious about watching-- the Angel Guts series, for example-- due to themes like sadism that don't appeal to me, have impressed me with their low-budget cinematic artistry.

Ichijo's Wet Lust (1972)

Thursday night I watched writer-director Tatsumi Kumashiro's Ichijo's Wet Lust (一条さゆり　濡れた欲情 - Ichijô Sayuri: Nureta yokujô;1972). Like the other Kumashiro Roman Pornos I've seen, my immediate impression... well, 15 minutes or so into the film... was, "I'm going to have to watch this again to understand what's going on." I don't mean that as a put-down... Kumashiro's films are highly-regarded by the critics, but I wonder what the audiences of dirty old men thought at the time. Here we have, basically, a sex movie, but it demands repeated viewing. At about the half hour mark, the impression I had was, "This is a very great film." I was very emotionally involved, but not completely sure why. For one thing-- and of interest to this blog-- though the younger girl, Hiroko Isayama as Harumi, gets the main focus of the film, but Ichijo Sayuri-- the real-life stripper on whose life the film is based-- is a very sexy woman. Buxom for the time, but also intelligent and just plain sexy, she does some very exciting Red Peony-type routines on stage.

The World of Geisha (1973)

Friday I saw The World of Geisha (四畳半襖の裏張り - Yojôhan fusuma no urabari;1973), and it really converted me to the greatness of Kumashiro. This one also requires me to watch it again-- and to do some more reading into Japanese history-- before I can make any meaningful comments on it, but it's obviously a very, very good film. Like Ichijo's Wet Lust, there is a political subtext to its eroticism. Ichijo makes points about the hypocrisy of contemporary Japanese censorship, while Geisha goes back to comment on the beginnings of Japan's disastrous military expansion in the early 20th century. It follows the lives of women in a geisha house about 1918-1920, when the military is just starting to cause some real mischief in the region. (With that theme, it brings to mind Nagisa Ôshima's later, internationally-celebrated In the Realm of the Senses (1976). I think this little-known "Roman Porno" is every bit as good as that film, without the shock-value.) The last scene is truly extraordinary. A dumpy soldier has just received orders to go fight in Siberia, to his almost certain death. He has to report to duty in five minutes, or be shot. He uses that time for a last, tearful quickie with the dumpy geisha with whom he had had plans to marry and settle down on a farm. A rich playboy overhears their pathetic love-making and is inspired to engage in a meaningless quickie with the geisha he is with. It's very funny, very sad, poignant, and deeply moving all at once. How many "porno" films make you wipe away a tear? Bravo, Kumashiro!

Street of Joy (1974)

Saturday night I saw Street of Joy aka Red Light District: Gonna Get Out (赤線玉の井　ぬけられます - Akasen tamanoi: Nukeraremasu; 1974). As with the other two, this one dealt with Japan's world of erotic entertainment. In this case, the story was set at a brothel in  1955-- the last year of legal prostitution. It was a good, solid film, with lots of Kumashiro's style apparent, but it didn't impress me as much, on first viewing, as the previous two. Kumashiro's main actress in all three films was Junko Miyashita, who is a great actress, but not my type-- too thin. There was a funny bit in the movie about one of the hookers trying to break the record for most tricks in one day, then getting a drunk customer who couldn't get it up... pretty good, but not as great as the previous two: Seven stars out of ten.

On Monday night, for my last sampling of Pink cinema for the week, I tried a change of pace, and went with something from good old wacky Hisayasu Sato: Chikan densha: Iyarashii koui or Birthday (1993). His films became so notoriously unpopular among the regular dirty-old-man pink film audience that he had to start using aliases when he directed. He directed this film under the name Hisakazu Hata. Sato actually has plenty of sex in his films, whereas with Kumashiro's films-- which were very popular-- I sometimes forgot I was watching a sex film. This film was made 20 years after the Kumashiro films though, and I guess there could have been an increased expectation for sex. This was the first of Sato's films I've seen that I didn't care much for. Thematically it reminded me somewhat of of Kôji Wakamatsu's celebrated 1969 pink film, Go, Go Second Time Virgin-- two alienated teenagers meditating on life and death between bouts of sex. It also had a few motifs I recognized in Sato's own, later, better Sukebe-zuma: otto no rusu ni or Rafureshia (1995). The screenplay was by Yutaka Ikejima's wife, Kyôko Godai. Films she has written for her husband have his more populist style, while this one for Sato is as elusive, arcane, and introspective as most of Sato's work, though considerably toned down in terms of violence and perversion. The story involves a boy alienated by his perverted family, who can only feel reality in 3-dimensions when he's seeing it through a camera, and a girl who plans to blow herself up on her 20th birthday... spoilers aside, I was disappointed that this main plot point went nowhere-- after all that anticipation, the dynamite turns out to be a dud... Star Yumika Hayashi was a legend in the Pink film / AV world, who died tragically after drinking too much celebrating her own birthday. She was very pretty, and is quite cute in this film, but too skinny and girlish for my taste. Sato's other main leading lady in other films-- Kanako Kishi (岸加奈子)-- was also skinny, and rather homely, though a very captivating actress. I guess this fits in with Sato's geeky-intellectual aesthetic... but enough of that... let's get into the big, earthy, happy and chubby girls that you and I enjoy so well!

Marina Jônouchi

Let's finish the survey of the Pocha Pocha site we started last week. First in the "Heavy" class is AV idol Marina Jônouchi as "Watanabe". She has appeared for the soapland before, and her scheduled appearance this time is still not certain. She's reported to be 23 years old currently and with a top measurement of 150cm P-cup, and 120cm in the hips.

Sara Aikawa

I'm surprised that big-butt AV star, Sara Aikawa, with her 140(K)-101-171 measurements, is classified as a mere Heavy, rather than a King-sized BBW. 25-year-old Sara, a favorite of fans of big Japanese girls, is retiring and moving to Osaka to give customers a chance to sample her charms.

Miyabi Hayama

"Heavy" girl Miyabi Hayama was already noted at the Pocha Pocha site as appearing at the soapland CocoLulu. Her recently un-retired status gives us hope that, like many JAV performers, Sara Aikawa's retirement is only temporary. Miyabi's profile has been updated, and new pictures of this lovely lady are always worth taking a look at.

                                                                                Marika
With a top measurement of 140(L-cup), and a bottom of 145cm, "Heavy" girl, Marika is a joy to behold from front or from behind. I don't recognize her from any AVs, but with that cute face, and voluptuous figure, she would be worth seeing in one.

                                                                   Honoka Kurusu
We take a step up to the "King" level of chubbiness with BBW AV idol, Honoka Kurusu . Boobpedia's profile, based on a 6-year-old DVD appearance, shows the 29-year-old Honoka's statistics have bulked up considerably to their current, magnificent 148(P)-?-128.

                                                                            Erika
Big, beautiful "King"-level AV star, Erika has been seen at the soapland before. Here we have a couple new images of this 23-year old lady, with the stupendous 150(Q)-85-118 figure.

Yui Igarashi

22-year-old 149(Q-cup)-74-126cm wonder-girl Yui Igarashi is back at the shop for a limited time, so if you are in the neighborhood, don't miss a chance to frolic with this King-sized BBW AV idol!

Noa Serizawa

23-year-old Noa Serizawa is one of my favorite BBW AV idols. She just made a few videos that I am aware of, in 2009-2010, so it's nice to see she's still around. Besides her King-sized 150(O-cup)-138cm figure, she's got a very cute face and atmosphere about her that I like a lot. Her boobs aren't that huge in the videos I've seen-- she's just a very cute, big girl-- so either she's had some work done, or-- more likely-- we're seeing some digital enhancement in these pictures.

                                                               Masaki Amamiya

And our last King-sized beauty is big, big Masaki Amamiya, with her awe-inspiring 157(S-cup)-119-132 figure. She's one of those few really big girls (Iori Kuroki is another) who, for some reason, don't completely enthrall me... It's not the size per se, since Noa, Erika, Miyabi and Sara, above, are all among my favorites, and they're all big, big girls... something about their character, I guess... I don't know...