Munekyunkissa Done! / La Dolce Hiyoko

I finished the Munekyunkissa bios, then went back and added screenshots to the first 60 or so DVD articles in the series. This means that the Munekyunkissa project, which I started on May 4, is now done! 164 DVDs, and bios on the actresses appearing in them... Whew! (Of course, by "done", I mean just up-to-date. It will now need constant updating, like the other DVD series.) After that, I went looking for a new project to start. I poked around IZM and a couple other series for updating next, but maybe I'll take a little breather and work on the Pink film projects for a while. There are bound to be new posters and films out there, released in the month or so since I last worked on those projects...
And in a new post, director Ryudai reveals some Fellini influence on his art, in this image of Hiyoko Makino from the DVD Chou deka-nyuu dan-iji Makino Hiyoko (超デカ乳男虐 牧野ひよこ; ICD-187; May 2012). Given Fellini's predilection for big, buxom women (Anita Ekberg and Chesty Morgan to name two), one wonders if Il Maestro would have been a fan of JAV pocha-DVD output such as that by Ryudai and IZM, and JAMS, and... What am I talking about? The man had taste! Of COURSE he would have been a fan!

The Road to Shion

I would like to introduce my readers to the lovely Shion Amane, whom we see at left in her IZM DVD, Muchi pocha hounyuu doll (むちぽちゃ豊乳DOLL; ICD-180; March 2012). If boredom sets in during the following recitation of my online activities, feel free to study Ms. Amane's voluptuous and curvy form instead.

At Boobpedia I started a couple more Munekyunkissa bios in the morning, and added some DVD release info to my prep-list in the afternoon. I made the following submissions to IMDb:
1977-07 New Bride Attack (新妻を襲う - Niizuma o osou) [Shintôhô] dir: Giichi Nishihara
1977-08 Pervert's Medical School (痴漢性医学部 - Chikansei igakubu) [Shintôhô] dir: Genji Nakamura
1977-11 Poruno mukou san genryô donari: Tsure komi apaato (ポルノ向う三軒両隣り　連れ込みアパート) [Shintôhô] dir: Minoru Inao
1977-12-10 Semi-dokyumento: Kankô basu nure nure jakku (セミドキュメント　観光バス濡れ濡れジャック / 観光バス濡れ濡れ・ジャック) [Watanabe Pro / Nikkatsu] dir: Gô Kuga

Last evening's viewing was Road to Bali (1952) with Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and Dorothy Lamour. Continuing our theme of Hogan's Heroes personnel in non-Hogan roles, one of the minor players was the person my son and I were waiting, and waiting, and waiting to see: General Burkhalter himself, Leon Askin. It was OK, and Askin was worth the wait, but the Road series had obviously run out of steam by this point. The jokiness seemed a bit forced and tired, the songs rather formulaic, and the plot... well, there was none really. Still, it obviously had a much higher budget than most of the stuff I have been watching lately, it was all professional, slick and enjoyable. If not terribly exciting, at least not a bad way to kill an evening. Six stars out of Ten.

A Life at Stake

I'm in the middle of changing gears in the Munekyunkissa project. I finished up the main ALB- / Busty Amateur Nakadashi 10-film template list articles and main article for the series last night. I also did more preparation for the Actress-bio stage of the project. This morning I worked out some final bugs in the skeleton file, and started one bio: Aimi Sakamoto. My evening session was spent starting bio stubs for the rest of the list of Busty Amateur Nakadashi series DVDs: 001 - 010. I got all but one started-- couldn't find enough info on that one... All the actresses in the first 10 DVDs have been of pretty actresses, certainly, but of non-Dekkappedlian proportions. Skinny, model-pretty.. I do like the chubby girls... I'll no doubt go to a more BBW-centric project after this one-- MAGURO maybe (our much-admired Yuuki Manaka is featured on the cover of MAGURO-014 at left)-- or updates on other big-girl labels like JAMS or IZM...

I spent most of my afternoon BP session adding new actress bio-stubs started by other editors to the List of Big Breasted Japanese AV Actresses. That list was one of the first things I started at Boobpedia, and, not long after it had been added, the founder of the project told me it was one of the most-viewed pages at the site. This list actually started from a list of Japanese AV Actresses that was deleted at Wikipedia back when I first got suckered into contributing there-- 2006. One of the popular reasons for deleting things in those days was because they were "unsourceable". "How do we even know these people exist?" So, before it was deleted, with the intent of restoring the list, I saved it for myself and spent my free hours sourcing every entry I could, and removing the very few I couldn't. By the time I had it all sourced, I had come to realize that, of course, the ruling class at Wikipedia just plain didn't want that kind of information there, but they won't say so openly. They have to do lip-service to "Not censored / not biased / neutral point of view" and all those other lies. This all applies only to the English Wikipedia, of course. Japanese Wikipedia still stays true to the spirit under which Wikipedia was founded-- the honest presentation of information-- and so, like any project claiming to aspire to "the sum of human knowledge", they do have hundreds of articles on these models who have appeared in internationally-distributed media. Japanese Wikipedia's problem is that its users rarely cite their sources-- and yet I have found JWiki to be almost always correct in its information-- information that would be / is banned at English Wiki. When I finally had had enough of the garbage at Wikipedia, I considered just staying full-time at JWiki. My Japanese isn't good enough (to say the least) to contribute text, but I could have provided citations to back up unsourced facts. But the same problem which ruined English Wiki still looms at JWiki: There are no real policies, no set-in-stone statement that X is allowed here, and Y is not. Style X is used here, Style Y is not. There are no policies and no authorities. It's all in flux, up for non-stop argument, and subject to change either through the interpretation by anonymous users, or the complete making up from scratch of policies by anonymous users. For anyone there to contribute information, it's a recipe for disaster, one that has come true at English Wikipedia, and could (probably eventually will) happen at the other Wikis. If I did take the time to cite all that information, any one or group could come along and say, "Any source that covers subject X is not a 'reliable source'" and then delete it. This has happened at English Wiki. Contributing to any Wiki that does not openly state "We cover X, but not Y", is a waste of time. Anyway, when Boobpedia was started, I picked out the "Busty" entries and gave the list to that fine project. Wikipedia's loss.

Meanwhile, back at IMDb, it turned out Sharp had nothing much to say about Sex semi dokyumento: Renzoku fujo bôkôma-- which I've been holding off on submitting-- except to cite it as a typical misogynistic rape pinku, with the slightly odd fact that one of the main actresses-- Rumi Tama-- was the step mother of the director-- Seiji Izumi. So I went ahead and submitted it today. I see one of my previously-submitted articles has gone live: Poruno repôto: Bôkô-ma (1976). I made a fair amount of new submissions today also: Blue film no Onna: Chissoku (ブルーフィルムの女　ちっそく; Genji Nakamura; Genji Production; 1978-11), Chikan genkôhan (痴漢現行犯; Giichi Nishihara; Shintoho Company; 1978-10), Chikan kakueki teisha: Ossan nani surun'ya (痴漢各駅停車　おっさん何するんや; Minoru Inao; Shintoho Company; 1978-05), Chikan saishû densha (痴漢最終電車; Minoru Inao; Shintoho Company; 1978-08), Chikan waisetsu kôen (痴漢ワイセツ公園; Minoru Inao; Shintoho Company; 1978-11), Chikan yokochô joshi ryô mae (痴漢横丁女子寮前; Tadashi Yoyogi; Watanabe Pro / Nikkatsu; 1978-12-02), and Nuresugita mesuneko (濡れすぎた牝猫 / 濡れた牝猫; Banmei Takahashi; Takahashi Pro; 1979-07-10).

My evening's entertainment continued the survey I started unintentionally a couple nights ago of Angela Lansbury's film noir/femme fatale career. This one was A Life at Stake (1954). It was almost as good, not quite, as the last one. Fine acting from all the leads helped this one quite a bit. Besides Ms. Lansbury, the major roles were taken by Keith Andes as her lover/possible victim, Douglass Dumbrille as her elderly, but spry, husband, and Claudia Barrett as her shy and goodhearted (and much more attractive in my eye) younger sister. Even the minor characters had memorable and capable performers such as Ma Joad herself-- Jane Darwell. Paul Guilfoyle's directing was competent, but this one was flawed by budget and screenplay. Lansbury's motivations were never quite clear: Was she really in love with Andes, and cheating on her husband with him? Or was she working with her husband to seduce Andes and bump him off for insurance money? This question could have been used to create suspense, but instead it was just confusing. We never really know, even after the scheming couple meet their untimely end... Still, it was an entertaining little thriller. If you need a painless way to spend 75 minutes, check it out for yourself at the Internet Archive.

Cleanliness is Next to Boobliness

A recent post at the Hyperedge Blog shares new images from gorgeous Karen Toudou's new DVD, QDN-17. At left we see Karen getting into the bath with some lucky guy. The two images below show Ms. Karen displacing a rather substantial amount of the bath. Our protagonist, being a gentleman, nevertheless generously makes room for the lady, and then even helps her with her ablutions. The left boob is as good a place to start as any, isn't it, ma'am?...

I set up the template for the ALB- (Munekyunkissa) actress bios last night, in preparation for the next stage in that project. I started the main article for the series this morning, then three of the templated 10-DVD filmographies, finishing with List of Busty Amateur Nakadashi series DVDs: 021 - 030. Because of the difficulty the server has with these film templates we use in the DVD articles, we have to limit the amount that can be contained on any one page, making the awkward smaller filmography pages necessary... I spent the afternoon session organizing a bit: Adding categories for the Munekyunkissa DVDs & actresses, and sub-categories to the BOINBB sub-lists.

I see a few of my new IMDb film submissions from a few days ago have gone live: Kôkishin Fujin (1975), Semi-dokyumento: Shinjû sex go jû-nen-shi (1975), Semi-document: Bôsô sex shûdan (1976), Shin mibôjin geshuku: Oku no ma kashimasu (1975), Semi-dokyumento: Otoko isari (1975), Suke komashi gundan (1978; still waiting for one cast member to be approved), Kan'in no zange: Aru gôtô no shuki (1976), Nureta kaben no sanshimai (1976), Osanazuma: Shoya no wananaki (1976; waiting for two cast members), and Poruno repôto: Bôkô-ma (1976). Another one: Sex semi dokyumento: Renzoku fujo bôkôma (1975) is ready to submit, but I first want to look through Jasper Sharp's book. I think he mentions this one a few times, and he might have some useful information to add. I did some updating to my list of information for IMDb submissions. I added raw data from JMDb, which I will have to translate and reformat. That was quite a lot of work, but I did have time to submit one film: Bôkô: Yadosu (暴行　宿す; Kaoru Umezawa - as Kaoru Higashimoto; Shintoho Company; 1978-08).

Yasuoka Bound

I got back into the Munekyunkissa project this morning, starting articles for ALB-091, ALB-092, and ALB-093. The discovery of the evening was a new set of screen-caps from Tamaki Yasuoka's JAMS DVD: Tit-Fuck Skill Update (パイズリスキル更新 - Paizuri-skill koushin; WZA-04). This set consisted of a boob-binding and -fucking scene. Performing under the name Tomomi Nagamine, we see the jolly and eager Ms. Yasuoka preparing for her apprenticeship in this skill-development seminar, over on the left. I see that this is the twelfth post in which I have managed to put an image of Tamaki-san. Has it become apparent yet that she is one of my all-time favorite models?... I started out the afternoon session by setting up some categories for the video Directors, and for the future model articles. I noticed that in the reference citation for the information on the DVDs, I had put a DVD item code in the link to the Arzon mainpage. So I spent the rest of the session un-screwing that screw-up. Still feeling poorly at night, I went to bed without any BP work or even a show.

My Ass-Man Godfrey

I started a few more ALB- (Munekyunkissa) stubs this morning (ALB-064 - ALB-067), the total boob-count weighing in at one G-cup, two I-cups, and a K-cup. We see the lovely, but unnamed K-cup girl starring in K-cup Amateur Nakadashi in Aomori over there on the left. In the afternoon I added some more Arzon info to the list of future articles.


Still feeling under the weather last night, I went to bed early, watching My Man Godfrey (1936) before sleep. Now here's what pisses me off about Godfrey: If I'd never heard of it, and put it on with no knowledge of its history, it would have probably been a mildly amusing little hour and a half and I would have gone to sleep with a smile. Instead, I know that it was one of the most highly praised and (almost)-awarded comedies of its time-- a time when Laurel and Hardy, The Three Stooges, W.C. Fields, the Marx Brothers were in their prime. A time when Keaton, Chaplin, Langdon, and Lloyd were still very much alive and capable of doing more great work given the opportunity. It was a time when the "lesser" comedians included such greats as Edgar Kennedy, James Finlayson, the amazing Charley Bowers... And how many Academy Awards were these comic geniuses given? Chaplin got a couple of honorary-- but then he was Chaplin. Other than that... I think Laurel & Hardy got one, and that's it. The greatest era of American film comedy (after the '20s), and the critics were honoring pretentious, prissy, leisure-class screwball comedies like Godfrey, and sneering at the really funny people who were really making the country laugh.

OK, that's off my chest. Now, about Godfrey: Yes, it was all pleasant, light and enjoyable. I really never did care for Powell as a comic actor. I tried to get into the Thin Man series once, but quit about half-way through the second. Too... pleasant. I can't claim to be a Carole Lombard fan either. But a couple of supporting players made the proceedings more fun than they would have been in their absence. There is Mischa Auer in full "Mad Russian" mode, as a leech who has attached himself to the rich & crazy family. There is Eugene Pallette as Auer's enemy, the long-suffering, loud-mouthed, blustering patriarch of the family. If the movie had been more about them, and less Lombard & Powell, it would have suited my simple and earthy tastes better. And it would have been funnier... Six stars out of Ten from me... I only wish director Gregory La Cava had let me brainstorm with him. I'd recommend retitling to My Ass-Man Godfrey, and having the dapper gent sneak around Chinatown and Little Tokyo peeking at solidly-built ladies such as Shizuko Fujiki (left, in a scene from Kokujin nami no kyôi no koshi-tsuki! Hôman kyojiri kangofu-san - 黒人並みの脅威の腰付き！ 豊満巨尻看護婦さん; MAGURO-029; May 2012). If the Breen Office had turned a blind eye, there is no doubt in my mind it would have then WON four Academy Awards rather than just been nominated! No doubt whatsoever.

She'll be Comin' 'Round the Mountains...

I continued the Munekyunkissa project during my time online today-- got up to the 63rd DVD in the series. Highlights of today's crop worthy of note include Kumiko Hayama in J-cup Amateur Nakadashi Miku (September 2009), Kyoko Nakano in I-cup Amateur Nakadashi Kotone (November 2009), Miharu Izawa in I-cup Amateur Nakadashi Misuzu (December 2009), Yume Sazanami in K-cup Amateur Nakadashi Miyoko January 2010), and long-time favorite Yuuki Manaka whose face is mostly eclipsed above left in N-cup Amateur Nakadashi Atsuko (November 2009).

I also took my son to see The Avengers today. After all the hype, I was a bit disappointed. It was a typical comic book movie, and actually kind of boring-- I actually had to fight to keep my eyes open during the last hour of non-stop action... That is the fault of so many contemporary U.S. films: Too much action. No pacing. It's the reason I've never been able to get into Hong Kong action films. Japanese and Korean films (the ones that don't ape Hong Kong or current U.S. films) have plenty of over-the-top action and violence, but they also have pacing. Sergio Leone picked this up from Japanese film. Long, slow build-up, then POW! Non-stop POW! POW! POW! creates no tension or suspense. It becomes the opposite-- a tranquilizer. The best of these comic book movies so far, I think, was last year's X-Men: First Class. It's the only one where I've really cared about the characters, rather than the BANG! ZOOM! POW! aspect (which I never care about). Funny thing is, I wound up talking about these comic book movies to a co-worker, and he said X-Men: First Class was the one film of the group he didn't like: "Too slow." Most of the others just blend into one blur to me... I see IMDb users have voted The Avengers the #29 movie of all time which says a lot... about IMDb users... Although, to be fair, I see some really worthy films on the list, which would not be on a typical public list... Anyway, Avengers had its moments. Samuel L. Jackson and Robert Downey Jr. are always fun to watch, and they're in fine form here. Mark Ruffalo as Bruce Banner / Hulk was particularly good. I'd have probably liked it better if I'd gone in expecting just another comic-book movie. Six stars out of Ten from me.

Могучая кучка (The Mighty Handful)

I spent most of my online time today starting the Munekyunkissa project. I managed to get about 30 DVD articles started. Highlights of the day's work included Sakura Kawamine in K-cup Amateur Nakadashi Yumi (September 2008), Hitomi Matsumoto's AV debut Q-cup Amateur Nakadashi Hitomi Matsumoto (October 2008), and today's featured image, that gorgeous double-handful, Mitsumi Nanao seen above left in M-cup Amateur Nakadashi Natsumi (March 2009).