End of the year report / New Year plan

Again I've been putting off posting here. First let's take a look back at the previous year, and then look ahead to what I plan to do in 2015.

All data on Pink films in World Filmography 1967, submitted to IMDb this year

IMDb work in 2014 was been more diverse than the previous two, and that kept my interest going. Besides continuing work on the main, long-term project I started a couple years ago of starting an entry for every Pink film released from 1990-present, I added as much info as I could on every Pink film released in 1967 & 1968, based on entries in Cowie's World Filmography 1967 and World Filmography 1968. I finished 1967, but am only about a quarter of the way through 1968.

Pink Film Award, now at IMDb

IMDb announced they had re-opened submissions for awards ceremonies this year, and this enabled me to start up a long-desired project there. The Pink Film Award page was accepted, and proved to be a lot of work. These pages are still difficult to contribute to, and I haven't yet figured out how to add data on the event itself-- location, date and time of the ceremonies-- which I see in some other award pages. Still it's nice to see the major award of the Pink film world represented at IMDb, even if it's going to take a long time to get it all posted. In December I started adding the Pink films released in 2014-- there were only 38 of them-- and I've almost got them finished now.

Miyabi Hayama's latest: ICD-259, now at IMDb

As planned at the beginning of the year, I took some time off straight Pink film work at IMDb to submit some BBW/busty AVs. I was surprised at how quickly and painlessly these were accepted. Earlier in the year I added entries for the ICD, JAMS, and MAGURO, labels, and in late December I brought them up to date. In the process of adding those DVD, many of our favorite BBW models got their own IMDb entries. When I had them, I linked IMDb to my blog reviews of those videos.

Hana Uehara in GAS-198, both now at IMDb

In November I undertook the largest sub-project of the AV project: The 342 GAS DVDs. This brought me in communication with none other than Akira Takatsuki  himself, and he emailed me release dates on some of the earlier DVDs in the series. In order to fill out their filmographies a little, I also added a few miscellaneous video releases starring busty/BBW icons like Kimiko Matsuzaka and Mariko Morikawa, who already had entries at IMDb due to one or two Pink films they'd appeared in. Though IMDb is pretty stingy about accepting it, I was able to add a little basic biographical data to the actress' entries when I could: Birthplace, height, and links to official and miscellaneous sites. With all the above work, I wound up with the highest ranking of my IMDb career: #48 on the list of top contributors for the year.

Sara Aikawa (L) & LUU (R) new Twitter acquaintances of mine

The biggest new event relevant to the blog would be my discovery, in early October, of the mighty resource that is Twitter. I'd heard about it, but thought it was just for teenaged girls sending each other giggly messages. Little did I realize what a valuable source it is for keeping up on the latest activities of my favorite personnel.

Mika Hoshima (L) & Masaki Amamiya (R) two more of my favorite ladies on Twitter

Surprisingly, the response from these people has been generally very positive and fun. Akira Takatsuki helped me with info on the Cinema Unit GAS releases, Sara Aikawa gave me an explanation of her nickname ("Batty"), and Miyabi Hayama, Mika Hoshima, and Masaki Amamiya have all been fun to chat with, in my broken Japanese...

Among the bad news of the year was the latest in my long-running series of computer disasters, which resulted in the (hopefully) temporary loss of all the data on my 4-terrabyte external hard drive. Videos, stills, screencaps, reviews, research, etc. are all unavailable to me now... I'm still in the process of trying to recover as much as I can before re-formatting it, and then wondering how much I can trust it, or WHAT is trust-worthy in digital formats... The loss of access to this material, which I've collected online for the past two decades, was a major set-back to posting at this blog, and dealt a major blow to my enthusiasm in working with computers at all.

My enthusiasm for this hobby waned considerably in the last couple months of last year. I'm not sure why-- It's not due to any battles with censors, drama-mongers, opinionated idiots, or other bureaucratic bone-headedness, which caused my departures from Wikipedia and Wikia. Maybe it was because of the computer/Internet disasters which strike so regularly, and result in so much lost/repeated work. Also, as I'm getting older, the desire to do something of my own-- rather than cataloguing the work of others-- becomes strong now and then... but it passes. Whether this work of my own will be writing, composing, or something else I've dabbled in in the past, I'm not sure. Maybe I just needed a temporary down-time before diving back into IMDb/Japanese/Korean stuff. I spent those months browsing around on the Internet, reading a lot (Steinbeck, Thomas Hardy, and now Haruki Murakami), watching a lot of movies (westerns, Pink, sci-fi, film noir), listening to a lot (Bach, Russian opera, Khachaturian, Sibelius...) in limbo between major projects.

Yûki Manaka & Tamaki Yasuoka in JUC-206... Coming to IMDb this year?

Anyway, last week I got back on track. It turns out I was just hungry for a new direction. A project I've had in the back of my mind for a long time now has been to start a BBW AV database similar to my two Pink film databases (Pre-1990 Pink Film Archive and Pink Film Archive). I've got both Pink Film archives full and stable enough that I'm just adding things when I come across them now. Every month when the new Pink releases are announced, I identify, translate and upload them within half an hour. My goal for the new BBW AV database will be the same: Upload all the old ones I already know, get a good, solid representation of the Busty/BBW genre throughout in JAV history, then get the system honed so that whenever I come across a new VHS or DVD cover, I can upload it and identifying information, in proper chronological order, within a couple minutes.

Tamaki Yasuoka in SND-25, now at IMDb & in my JAV Archive

Like with the other databases, they would function as informational displays of images on their own (though, unfortunately, they get very little traffic), but they would also serve their IMDb pages by linking to the corresponding Picasaweb image (my Picasaweb Pink film folders do get a lot of traffic). A complete Pink film database project is impossible enough. Attempting a complete AV one would be insane. Instead I'll just focus on the busty/BBW genre (even that will be impossible enough), linking the cover images to the videos/DVDs I've added to IMDb, and creating IMDb listings for the significant ones that aren't already there.

Early Japanese BBW favorite, Yôko Koizumi in FDS-17, both now at IMDb!

To get my feet wet, figure out what would work well, and set up a format, I started on a smaller series: the 62 JAMS SND- DVDs. Once I was able to get adding these DVDs down to a quick and efficient process, I took up a more challenging series, the early BBW VHS "Horny Fat Woman" tapes, FDS-. These were more difficult because they often don't name their models, and the exact release dates aren't known. I worked out some ways of compensating for this. I don't think a series like this-- all unknown/amateurs-- needs to be at IMDb (though unlike Wikipedia, I would not stand in the way of anyone who wanted to do the work to add them), but I did submit the two tapes which had major early BBW stars. This means that the incredible BBW pioneers Yôko Koizumi and Anna Watarai are now listed at IMDb! This has inspired me to spend the year in deep research into BBW/busty JAV, making entries for as many as I can at this archive, and starting entries for most of them at IMDb.

Usagi Minagi (& Tamaki Yasuoka) in KBKD-534 - coming to IMDb this year!

So, in a nutshell, 2015 is going to be The Year of the BBW JAV!: The new database will keep me busy, and I'll be spreading the joy of Japanese BBW-dom by adding the data and linking the images to IMDb. I'll also continue maintaining Pink film blog/IMDb entries at a slower pace than previous years, and posts at this blog will probably continue to be skimpy throughout the year... certainly until I'm able to recover my external hard disk data. With this long-contemplated JAV database started, the only other future project I am thinking about is a Personnel database, giving images and biographical data on Actresses, Directors, and anyone else I can track down who works in the Pink and/or JAV fields... In my silence here, you can follow me at Twitter where I will continue quick tweets on my favorite subjects: JAV, Pink films, cult films, music, my viewing & listening activities, new discoveries, etc. as well as to see me flirt with some of our favorite Japanese BBW models in my poor Japanese.

Merry Christmas, 2014

Merry Christmas to all. I realize I'm ignoring this blog more & more lately, and I'm actually drifting away from this line of online hobby. I've been neglecting Pink & IMDb work for the past couple weeks too... But, it's Christmas, so let's take a look at Christmas messages from some of our favorite BBW lovelies, as well as a few of the latest offerings from IZM.

Lexxxi Luxe in ICD-266

First, the news everyone has been waiting for: News on Lexxxi Luxe's appearance on a Japanese DVD label.

It was released today, by IZM, the catalog number is ICD-266, and its title is Bust 176-㎝ no daimanyû joshi ga Nippon danshi o-yaru!!

Miharu & Hiromi Kishikawa in ICD-265

Another Christmas release, ICD-265, Double jukujo chigyaku yûgi, stars Hiromi Kishikawa along with Miharu.

Marika in ICD-263

ICD-263, released on November 20, gives us some big-booty housewives, including cover girl Marika.

ICD-262 (Delicious, Nicole & Sofia Rose)

Also in November, Sofia Rose, Delicious & Nicole starred in ICD-262 (Chôzetsu double bakujiri chichi health: Delicious, Sofia, Nicole). And as far as the IZM releases that command my attention, that takes us back to ICD-259, starring Miyabi Hayama, which we already covered in an earlier post.

Merry Xmas from P-chan/ Fuko

Meanwhile, back on Twitter, several lovely ladies have given their followers some extra Christmas goodies in the way of images. Cutie Fuko offered this Christmas picture to her fans.

Merry Xmas from LUU

LUU whipped up this tasty Christmas confection for her lucky followers.

Merry Xmas from Mika Hoshima

Mika Hoshima gave her fans just what they wanted: A stocking full of cleavage...

Happy Holidays from Juri Morozuki!

And let's conclude this post with this nice cup of Christmas cheer which Juri Morozuki gave her fans.

Trick or Tweet

I'm still spending my online time working on IMDb Pink films (2001 & 2002 currently), and obsessively checking Twitter for new posts from my favorite ladies. A lot of them  got into the Halloween spirit. With the time difference, Halloween is all done and over with, yesterday, in Japan, while it's still going on here.

A Debukawa Halloween

Debukawa's bevy of BBWs starts the evening off in a happy mood. With my iffy Japanese, I'm not always sure, but I think this picture was taken at the last event, which had the Halloween theme, rather than last night.

New to Twitter: Masaki Amamiya!

My newest Twitter friend-- and she is new to Twitter herself-- is the lovely and voluptuous Masaki Amamiya. She didn't give us any Halloween pictures, but she has been posting some beautiful pictures, such as the one above, which she uses for her avatar... so you can see why I enjoy every Tweet she makes!

Ooooohhhh....

This picture of her gorgeous legs is the one that inspired me to strike up a chat with her. We're supposed to pay attention to her shoes, but I can't take my eyes off her calves.

A squeaky clean Halloween with Miyabi Hayama

Miyabi Hayama's cobweb-covered cleavage gave her male fans something to ogle on their phones while taking their kids trick-or-treating...

LUU gets serious!

No namby-pamby, watered-down, Disneyfied Halloween for Cosplayer LUU! She took the season in its original spirit and gave her devoted fans this eerie image.

Mika Hoshima, also being of the cosplayer persuasion, got into the seasonal spirit as well, but in a more cutesy manner. First she gave her fans this lovely, spooky picture.

Nice smile, huh?

And then she gave us a second Halloween themed portrait, this one with a lucky Jack-o-lantern happily nestled in her cleavage...

Congratulations, Sara Batty!

Sara Aikawa didn't give us any Halloween pictures this year, but earlier in the week she thrilled her loyal followers with this image of her her own monumental cleavage in celebration of the attainment of 2,000 followers.

LUU at Osaka Fetish-Fest this Sunday!

LUU-san in an appropriately fetishistic mood

If you're lucky enough to be in Osaka next Sunday, November 2, you will want to go to the Fetish Fest, where lovely LUU-san will be in attendance.

Be sure to pick up a few of her photo ROMS & her Cutie Fat LUU book, which we've covered here in earlier posts. I have my own personal copy of this fine volume!

Congratulations to LUU-san!

LUU-san celebrated the attainment of 4,000 followers on Twitter today by favoring her fans with the image above. More success to her!

Nurses LUU & Mika Make Dekk's Day Brighter

Nurse LUU, at your service!

I planned on spending my online time today in the rather dull and solitary task of translating credits for Pink films released in 2000 to submit to IMDb later. I did do that. But instead a dull day online, it turned out to be quite an eventful one. This morning I was still recovering from Sara Aikawa's nod to me yesterday when none other than LUU thanked me for a reply of a few days ago. She then went on to favor her followers with some racy photos, one of which you can see above.

And Nurse Mika standing by!

But wait, there's more! As if that weren't enough, I later had a full-fledged conversation with Mika Hoshima... OK, on reflection, I guess it was pretty short... alright, if you want to get technical, she tweeted me twice while tweeting several other followers... but still... it's Mika Hoshima! And get this: she thanked me for writing about her! Writing about Mika-san is a pleasurable job if ever there was one.

It was very sweet of both of these lovely young ladies to take time out to reply and make a fan's day brighter... Thank you, thank you!

LUU at Debukawa Night

I don't have time to put together much of a post tonight, but one of the good things about Twitter is that I'm getting so much information from people I'm interested in, I can throw out a short post in a few minutes. So tonight we just have time for a quickie.

Spectacular LUU at Debukawa Night #6

In two tweets from a couple days ago, lovely LUU-san reminded us that she remains a presence, a force to be reckoned with in the BBW world. She Tweeted or re-Tweeted some images from last week's Debukawa Night event.

And they are spectacular! I've tweeted responses to LUU a couple times, in my terrible Japanese, but she's ignored me so far... LUU is a cruel, cruel mistress! But I LOVE it!...

[P.S. 10/20/2014: LUU-san just gave me a "Thank you"-- I'm a happy man!]

[PP.S. 10/20/2014: Here is a page with a video clip (bottom of the page) that claims to show LUU performing in an AV. I've seen claims of LUU in AVs before, but have always found them to be false. (One claimed that Erika was actually LUU.) This one may have some merit though. Any experts care to weigh in on this matter?]

Dekkappai Tweets again, Mr Pink's latest, and Debukawa 6!

My week off is winding down to its last few days. I have spent most of my online time exploring new territories. But now I'm getting back to my usual IMDb Pink film work. I worked on a few 1968 Pink films today. But, of course, Twitter is the major discovery to come out of this week off from IMDb and the blog. Kmrt, the old Wikipedia friend who got me into Twitter identified some difficult posters for me today, which was interesting work, and a lot of fun.

Yutaka Ikejima's Kan'nô ero jitsuwa: Hamerareta hitozuma (2014)

This morning I woke up to the amazing discovery that Yutaka Ikejima-- Mr. Pink himself-- is now on my followers list! He and his screenwriting wife, Kyôko Godai have made some of my favorite Pink films of recent years, including Twilight Dinner (1998) and The Japanese Wife Next Door (2004), the former starring lovely and talented Yumi Yoshiyuki, and latter starring the scrumptious Reiko Yamaguchi. Today was the debut of Ikejima's latest opus, Kan'nô ero jitsuwa: Hamerareta hitozuma, which probably won't have an IMDb entry until I add all the Pink films released this year, which I plan to do in January next year. Ikejima-san and the lovely stars of the film were on hand to introduce this new film at Ueno Okura theater today, and I did what little I could to promote the event at my Twitter page. It's quite an honor to get such a major follower so soon!

Two of the lovely attendees promised at Debukawa 6

But the most interesting event of the day to THIS blog is no doubt the sixth Debukawa Night. To my immense pleasure, the Debukawa Twitter account is now following me, and we exchanged a few Tweets expressing our mutual admiration. He is very pleased to have a foreign audience interested in the Debukawa Night, and we are all very happy that he is putting on an event promoting the admiration of the big, beautiful Japanese models at the event.

Honey Trap: At Debukawa tonight!

Foreigner that I am, living outside Japan, it's sometimes very difficult to figure out what things are. The couple above, whom I've seen in some of these pages, is apparently a comedy duo called Honeytrap. They have their own Wikipedia page. (My readers know my extremely negative feelings about Wikipedia, but those feelings don't extend to the Japanese Wikipedia, which, at least in the little that I worked on it, was as accepting of all sourced information, as I think Wikipedia should be.)

Honey Trap: At Debukawa tonight!

Anyway, the more I see of this group, the more I think I like them. The man-- Kazuhito Umeki-- seems to be a talented physical comedian, judging from the images. And the lady, Yûko Yagi, is quite a cutie. According to Wiki, her statistics are: 160cm tall, 90(I-cup)-100-120, and 85 kg.

Bewitching LUU, at Pochakawa tonight!

Reader Brandt alerted me to a feud going on between event attendee LUU and Mika Hoshima. This is bad news... because if there's any model equal in loveliness to LUU, it's the amazing new discovery (to me anyway), Mika-san. I gather, from following the exchange on Twitter, that LUU has quite a fiery temper... since my wife is Korean, you can guess I do like women with fiery tempers! ;-) But I also have sympathy for Mika-san, who seems to have been genuinely hurt by the incident. So let's hope these two beautiful ladies patch up their differences and can be friends again.

A celebration of the beauty of larger women at Pochakawa 5

It sounded like there were some last-minute worries in getting the event arranged, but things will no doubt work out satisfactorily. I'm sure we're all looking forward to pictures and reports from the gathering, which will be in just a few hours from now! Gambatte, Debukawa!

Dekkappai Tweets! Correction from Maria Yuriko & Debukawa 6

My new Twitter page

I've got a little time off to myself this week. Rather than spending my online time with my usual IMDb work-- which I can do during a regular week-- I plan to take some time out to watch and review a few films, organize and post some of the new Pink film images I've found recently, and to look for new information and posters for Pink films from the '60s (my favorites). While doing so, I came across an old friend from Wikipedia, kmrt, who, being Japanese, has a lot of knowledge of Japanese cinema, and Pink in particular. He has a page on Twitter where he posts a lot of great images and information on obscure films, Japanese in particular.

In order to reply to him, I had to create an account for myself. So old man Dekkappai has now become acquainted with a site that the whole world has known about for years. For the background to my page I used Noriko Tatsumi's shapely leg from Mamoru Watanabe's classic Pink Film, Slave Widow (1967), and for my icon I used an image of good old Chester Conklin. I wanted to put out the impression that I'm serious in my research, but silly too, as well as the silly self-importance of us males, in comparison with the divinity of womanhood. Chester may be a bit too much, but Noriko-san's leg is seriously, divinely lovely, isn't it?... Anyway, looking at these messages from Pink/BBW personnel will give me something to do while taking breathers in my work on IMDb, Boobpedia (if I ever get back there), this blog, etc.

Announcement at Candy Drops last month concerning Miyabi Hayama

I've already seen many interesting announcements from Tweeters that I've put on my "follow" list. For example, Candy Drops has an announcement concerning an appearance by BBW lovely Miyabi Hayama last month.

Announcement at Candy Drops last year concerning Miyabi Hayama

Her now-defunct profile page at this site gives us this other announcement, apparently from last year.

Miyabi Hayama at Candy Drops last year

...as well as a few poses that should be preserved for posterity.

Maria Yuriko

In an amazing coincidence, the Japanese Twitter BBW community seems to have just become aware of my blog right on the same day that I discovered Twitter. As soon as I added her to my list, I saw that that cutie Maria-Yuriko-san had just Tweeted about the post I devoted to her last year at this blog, and pointed out an error. I was able to correct that within minutes of her note. (Here are some EXCELLENT pictures of Maria-Yuriko by by new hero, the photographer "Poko"!)

Debukawa 6 - October 11, at midnight!

Mari-Yuriko-san doesn't give any indication whether she approves or disapproves of my following her, but the Debukawa Night Twitter account seems to be enthusiastic. And I most certainly return the enthusiasm for their fine work in highlighting the beauty of these larger Japanese ladies. Their posts these days mainly are for the announcement of the Sixth Debukawa Event, to be held at the Loft Plus One in Shinjuku beginning at midnight on Saturday, October 11. According to the post on the official site, most of the old familiar faces will be there, as well as some newcomers, but this time with a Halloween theme.

LUU goes commando

Winner of the Third "Miss Fat Woman Grand Prix", lovely LUU will be at the event again, giving me an excellent excuse to post this "no bra day" image I recently discovered.

Comedy Duo Honeytrap (Umeki [L] & Yagi [R])

The funny-face-making gentleman from Debukawa 5 returns for 6. He is apparently teamed with the plump lady, and together they will emcee the event.

Meet Mr. Pink and four lovely actresses at Ueno Okura!

Also, if you happen to be more of a Pink Film fan, Ueno Okura theater also has some exciting news for October 11: "Mr. Pink" himself, actor-director par excellence, Yutaka Ikejima will be on hand to announce the appearance of four Pink starlets: Riko Matsui, Yuzu Hoshino (this year's Best New Actress at the Pink Film Awards), Nana Aida (Best Supporting Actress), and making her debut Pink stage appearance, AV-idol Yayoi Tsukimi. This event starts at 3 p.m., so it will be possible to get your Pinkie fix in the afternoon, and then go admire some lovely BBWs at midnight, both in one day! If you're lucky enough to be in Tokyo, go to one or both, and tell 'em Dekkappai sent ya!