Mariko II: Legend of Super Big Tits Q

Mariko Morikawa's second DVD was released a month to the day after her debut. Titled  Legend of Super Big Tits Q, Eat These Tits (超乳伝説Ｑ　この乳をくらえッ - Chonyû densetsu Q: Kono chichi wo kurae; AS-378; August 21, 1994), like her previous video, it was released by Athena and directed by Hikaru Kitô (鬼闘光).

Mariko received some attention in America with this video through a review in the Summer 1999 issue of Damon Foster's fanzine Oriental Cinema (#18). (She is on the cover above, second down from the left-- the one with the big boobs.) Foster paid her the compliment, "Mariko Morikawa may be considered too 'pudgy' for most men's taste, but I think she's an intense beauty. Sure, she's got some meat on her, but it's in all the right places. She's definitely not built like some average anorexic model or porn star." He goes on to praise scenes such as Mariko's sweatshirt bouncing and flouncing all over while she's jogging, and the interviews in which her spectacular cleavage is on display. He dumps on the video in general, but, since he seems to be an appreciator of ample female flesh, I don't really know why he should. It's an AV, and that format promises nothing in the way of cinematic quality. We get to see Mariko in action, and she's an eye-full, and that's all that should matter. I remember being annoyed by the early AVs-- I'm talking early/mid-80s-- which were like mini Pink Films: all story and camera-work-- without the quality in those areas that a good Pink Film could have-- and little nudity. You get an AV for the nudity/sex. If you want quality erotic cinema, you get a Pink Film or Roman Porno... (Foster also makes the usual complaints about Japanese censorship, but again, that just comes with the territory, and, personally, I prefer it...)

Foster expresses some confusion as to the "Q" in the title, so maybe this is the best place for my explanation of this mystery. The first time I saw the "Q-cup" claim on Mariko's first AV title ("Ultra-Q"), I just assumed it was a publicity gimmick. It seems an obvious reference to the classic Japanese sci-fi TV show, Ultra Q (1965), implying that Mariko's huge bazoom was to be greeted with awe akin to the supernatural mysteries presented by this "Twilight Zone of Japan". This series, from Tsuburaya Productions led directly to the Ultraman series the following year, and to dozens of sequel series, which were still coming out in 2000... I'm tempted to say it influenced the sentai / Power Rangers-type shows too, but they derive more from the 1958 series, Gekkô kamen. With Eiji Tsuburaya behind them, the Ultra-series come more directly from the Toho sci-fi/Godzilla series... but I digress...

Mariko's first "Bomber Girl" video (seen above)-- the first video in that series-- (ザ・爆乳 VOL.1) gives her bust measurement as a more reasonable 104cm I-cup. In earlier articles (still floating around the 'Net), I took this to be her first video, but it actually seems to have been released in December, some five months after her debut with the "Q-cup"-title...
As a side-note: While digging through the Dekkappedlian archives to find my copy of Oriental Cinema, I came across a few of my old Pink Film books, discovering a wealth of poster and film still images waiting to be scanned an uploaded. They had been set aside until I got the online poster project under control, and that point approaches...