Would you prefer tea or beer?

Debukawa 6

I didn't have much online time at all today, but reports from the Debukawa event last night are good, and judging from the happy group above, the event was a success. I couldn't be there in body, but my heart was there.

The best seat in the house!

...one thing I know, though. If I had been sitting behind this young lady, I would not complain about her blocking my view of the stage. Instead, I would say she gave me the best view in the house!... The event organizer has already announced the time and theme of the next Debukawa Night: March 14, 2015, White Day! (I was the happy recipient of "White Day" festivities from my wife when we lived in Korea-- That's the day when the women treat the men, rather than vice-versa, as is usual on "Valentine's Day".)

Nobody serves tea like Mika Hoshima!

I took time out from my busy day, however, to flirt shamelessly, via Twitter, with the splendid Mika Hoshima with a tweet promoting her Tea Parties.

Ami Yanagida

Also, in my searches, I came across a new discovery: Ami Yanagida. She stakes claims to a P-cup, but a P-cup is Mika Hoshima / Fuko territory, and my eyeballs don't tell me her measurements are quite that vast.

First love at first sight, courtesy of Ami-san

A hand-check for volume might remove my doubts though...

Care for a refreshing libation?

...and if Mika-san serves tea like no one else in Tokyo, I doubt anyone in Nagoya serves beer in a more captivating manner than Ami-san!

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!

BBW Wife Nasty Mansion

BBW Wife Nasty Mansion (RMAN-004)

I've been thinking about how to best fit my new Twitter account into my Pink/BBW work. Here's the deal: Instead of cluttering up these posts with, "I added this, this & that to IMDb today, now, here's the ladies", I'll just introduce the ladies here, then post the quickie IMDb update notices at Twitter. And speaking of Twitter: Courtesy of a Tweet from long-time favorite, the beautiful Iori Kuroki, I became aware of a DVD that will be of interest to followers of this blog. Titled BBW Wife Nasty Mansion (RMAN-004), it will be released tomorrow by Takara Visual, and appears to be based on a manga. As you can see from the logo above, this one has an actual English translation in the title, which will make adding it to IMDb that much more convenient and useful to the Anglosphere-- I will try to add it on its release date tomorrow.

Images like this, from the DVD's trailer, indicate that this is a live version of a Manga, but I haven't been able to find any information on it. The author is apparently Rei Shinozaki (しのざき嶺), who appears to be a general erotic manga author, rather than a BBW specialist.

It would be nice to accurately match up the ladies with their cartoon counterparts, but without more information on the manga, that is difficult to do. Since I don't follow manga, I can't tell, but it's possible these images were just created for the video, rather than coming from a pre-existing series.

Iori Kuroki in BBW Wife Nasty Mansion

For followers of this blog, the major center of interest in this DVD will, of course, be Iori Kuroki herself. I think she has become even lovelier as she matures, and since she has left the dominatrix roles. Here she appears in chubby, motherly housewife-mode, which she has taken up lately to great acclaim from yours truly.

Rin Aoki in BBW Wife Nasty Mansion

Another highlight of the cast is Rin Aoki, who was previously a thin gravure model. She has been maturing and filling out quite nicely since joining the AV world.

Hiromi Kishikawa in BBW Wife Nasty Mansion

Voluptuous beauty and active Tweeter Hiromi Kishikawa makes a trio of major big-bust/BBW stars in the DVD.

Maho Kiriya in BBW Wife Nasty Mansion

Making the celebrated trio a quartet is pulchritudinous Maho Kiriya. I don't know about her yet, but judging from the images presented here would be happy to see her more often.

The BBW housewives have a chat (skinny Ôka Fujimiya: right, center)

Ôka Fujimiya (center on the couch to the right in the image above) rounds out the cast as the one thin girl in this festival of female flesh. I might guess the charming, chubby ladies are encouraging this slim lass to eat more and make her hubby happy... but, of course, I'm reading my own preferences into the scenario... It's probably more likely that the mature and plump ladies are jealous of a thin young newcomer...

But we'll have to watch the DVD to find out for sure. So, keep watching the skies! A feast for fans of big, bouncy ladies! Coming out tomorrow! To a DVD outlet near you!

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!

Yôko Nakajima: New Love in Tokyo

Yôko Nakajima in Ai no shinsekai ("New Love in Tokyo"; 1994)

I'm still spending all my online time in Pink-related activities these days. Besides the usual IMDb work (year 2000 and Pink Film Awards currently), the major project underway currently is identifying, categorizing and uploading that stash of 500 Roman Porno poster/still/VHS cover images I came across last week. As I've stated many times, I like the pink/Roman Porno films for their interesting film work, combined with the emphasis on the erotic, but most of the actresses are pretty dull-- the kind of thin girl that is generally held up as the non plus ultra of beauty. Once in a while there is a girl in one of these films who catches my eye, and, naturally, she is usually made an object of fun, rather than desire. One such lovely, neglected damsel is Yôko Nakajima (中島陽子), whom I came across in celebrated Pink auteur Banmei Takahashi's celebrated 1994 film Ai no shinsekai (English title: New Love in Tokyo).

Yôko Nakajima

Chubby, cutie Yôko-san was born June 1, 1967 in Saitama, stands a mere 153cm (5') tall, but tips the scales at 92kg (203 lbs). Her Yahoo profile says her interests are film and stage appreciation. As part of the preparation for this post, I have added what I could to her IMDb profile, including appearances in films which IMDb didn't have yet. Here is what appears to be her homepage at her talent agency, and it gives her quite a a respectable list of credits in stage, screen and TV.  Her filmography is pretty short, but she has appeared in some high-profile productions, with major director.

Yôko Nakajima

Yôko-san's first screen appearance seems to have been in one of Academy Award-winning Pink maestro Yôjirô Takita's early mainstream films, Yamai wa kikara: Byôin e ikô 2 (1992). In 1996, she appeared in major writer-director Jûzô Itami's penultimate film Sûpâ no onna. (Itami was the master-mind behind the huge international hit Tampopo, released in Japan in 1985).

Yôko Nakajima in Ikitai (1999)

In 1999 she had a bit part as a woman having trouble with scissors in Kaneto Shindô's Ikitai. Shindô gave Japanese cinema such classics as The Naked Island (1960), Onibaba (1964), and Kuroneko (1968). Ikitai is a late film in Shindô's career, giving us his take on the ubasute legend of abandoning the elderly to their death, which is common to Japan and Korea. Other directors who have treated this story include  two of my favorites: Japanese Shôhei Imamura in The Ballad of Narayama (1983), and Korean Kim Ki-young in Goryeojang (1963).

Yôko Nakajima in A Snake of June (2002)

Director Shin'ya Tsukamoto had Yôko-san in a nightmarishly Fellini-esque/Tin Drum-ish scene in his 2002 erotic thriller, A Snake of June.

Yôko Nakajima in A Snake of June (2002)

I saw and enjoyed this film a few years ago, but Yôko apparently didn't make an impression on me at this time, probably due to the eery imagery involved. Look at those legs though!

Sora Aoi and Yôko Nakajima in Enjo-kôsai bokumetsu undô: jigoku-hen (2004)

She doesn't seem to have acted in any true Pink films, but in 2004 she had a fairly large role alongside big-name AV/Pink stars Sora Aoi and Minami Aoyama in the Pink-style V-cinema, Enjo-kôsai bokumetsu undô: jigoku-hen (English: "Stop the Bitch Campaign 2: Picture of Hell").

Yôko Nakajima in Enjo-kôsai bokumetsu undô: jigoku-hen (2004)

This is an amusing little Pinkie-comedy in the style of Mototsugu Watanabe, whose films are kind of a throw-back to American/British nudie-cuties of the late '50s, early '60s, The Immoral Mr. Teas era, which were in turn throwbacks to the classic naughty comedic form of burlesque. This one gives us the chance to see darling Yôko in the role of Totoko, a prostitute who acts as a female sumo wrestler.

Yôko Nakajima in Enjo-kôsai bokumetsu undô: jigoku-hen (2004)

In contrast to the loveable, sweet character she displays in the more realistic film, New Love in Tokyo, she is in cartoonish, aggressive, attack-mode here... and I love it! As befits the film, her acting is over-the-top, and she is quite funny. Unfortunately, she doesn't perform any nude scenes, but who of us here wouldn't want to be splattered by that marauding mass of feminine pulchritude?! Another profile indicates that she's still working, having most recently appeared in Ashita, mama ga inai# 8 (明日、ママがいない　＃８) in March 2014. Her agency's mainpage says she's scheduled to appear in director Yû Irie's Hibi Rock (日々ロック) to be released November 22, 2014.

Yôko Nakajima in Ai no shinsekai ("New Love in Tokyo"; 1994)

But back to the main film under consideration tonight-- New Love in Tokyo (1994). Based on the photobook of the same name by photographer Nobuyoshi Araki, this is purported to be the first Japanese mainstream film to show full frontal (female, non-sexual) nudity. Yôko-chan, unfortunately, is not involved in that nudity. She plays the role of chubby girl "Sakura", the one sexless member of the crew/cast of a theater troupe. The script does at least give her a chubby boyfriend, to show she is desirable... if only to one of her own "kind".

Yôko Nakajima

Look at that pretty face, those thick legs and that big, full chest-- I'd much rather see her in the main role than skinny Sawa Suzuki, who won all kinds of awards for this film. Though she has a fairly extensive role in the film, I see Yôko-chan is not even in IMDb's cast listing for the film. This oversight will soon be corrected, I assure you.

Yôko and her beau in Ai no shinsekai ("New Love in Tokyo"; 1994)

This is a mainstream production from Toei, but the film is basically a feature-length Pink film with high production values. Like Pink, it gives the audience a steady variety of sexual scenes covering numerous deviated preversions-- some of these scenes even more explicit than in many Pink films. To give these sex scenes a raison d'être, and to justify the use of Araki's nude photography, it tells a story of sex-industry workers. I don't mean this as a put-down, because it is a very good movie.

Yôko poolside, in Ai no shinsekai ("New Love in Tokyo"; 1994)

One of the crew suggests that Yôko perform in the erotic posing, and I suppose we're supposed to think that's funny and snicker at the embarrassed Yôko, who bashfully refuses to respond. But I was hoping that this might come true, even if it was for laughs. Unfortunately the suggestion was not followed up on.

Yôko (L) and film's star, Sawa Suzuki (R) in Ai no shinsekai ("New Love in Tokyo"; 1994)

We do get a swimming-suit scene though, which is quite nice for us fans of the fuller figure. Look above. If you prefer the film's star (to the right) over Yôko-chan (on the left), you just may be at the wrong blog! The men in the film, of course, all drool over the skinny girl, and gorgeous Yôko-chan is just the subject of fat-jokes.

Yôko carries her boyfriend home in the conclusion of Ai no shinsekai ("New Love in Tokyo"; 1994)

The film concludes with a big celebration with a lot of dancing and drinking. In the last scene, dear Yôko shows one more advantage to having a big, solidly-built girlfriend if you're a drinker!

More Miyabi: ICD-259

Several things have kept me from posting here for a while.
First: Real life.
Second: When I've been online, I've been working hard on finishing the Cowie World filmography, 1967 Pink film entries. I almost finished last night-- three more to go-- and then I will go on to... Cowie World filmography, 1968. Unfortunately-- or fortunately, for my free time-- the 1968 volume does not have as complete listings for the Pinkies, and no plots at all. That will cut down on the keyword hunting.
Third: I've been continuing with submitting Pink film entries for 2000, but this is going much slower than 1999, which I ripped through in record time. Still, I'm plugging away at it, and am into May. After that, 2001 and 2002 will be the end of this multi-year project.
Fourth: In the midst of this IMDb work, I found a treasure trove of about 500 excellent Nikkatsu Roman Porno poster, VHS and still images, so I had to take a day out to download and identify them. I already have poor-quality versions of most of these posters, so I will replace them in my blogs, and re-link the IMDb citations to them. I may do this before jumping into the 1968 project.

Miyabi Hayama in ICD-259

Fifth: I have finally made good on my threat to start writing plot outlines, synopses and reviews at IMDb. My first one was for Kôji Wakamatsu's Violence Without a Cause (1969) for which I wrote Plot Summary, Storyline and started a full Synopsis I followed that with my first review This turned out to be a learning experience: For one, I learned that linking doesn't work within reviews. For another, I learned that correcting any error in a review takes forever... literally so far, since I submitted corrections and re-writings last week, and it still hasn't gone through.
A couple days later I watched Hisayasu Satô's recent non-pink Love & Loathing & Lulu & Ayano (2010) (which deals with the AV industry anyway) and wrote a plot summary and review. Again, there is an obvious typo in this one ("infant terrible" instead of "enfant terrible"), but the IMDb system won't allow me to correct it. I'd have to delete it and re-submit, and I don't know if it's worth the effort. Anyway, these two tests have been kind of fun and relatively successful (I'll just have to check more thoroughly before posting from now on. Essentially, in my experience, you can post only once and not edit your review once it's out there.) I'd like to jump into this full time, soon, doing reviews and plot summaries for the BBW AVs as well.

Miyabi Hayama in ICD-259

 ...and finally, Sixth: All the Japanese BBW studios seem to be in a slump lately. I haven't had time to devote for a full DVD review-- which takes up a whole day of online time-- and nothing really exciting has been announced from the DVD studios for a while to inspire me to post here. BomBom Ojisan has a decent-looking one with  BOMX-080. But the others seem to be drifting to skinny girls... And then... out of the blue, IZM has made a great announcement! And this leads us to the subject of tonight's post:

Miyabi Hayama in ICD-259

The one, the only, the glamorous, the glorious Miyabi Hayama has blessed us with another post-retirement DVD. Titled Shinise ryokan no bakunyû okami (ICD-259), it has been announced so recently that IZM doesn't even have its sample video clip up on its site yet. (Once it does, it should be at this link.) There is a gallery of images here, which hints that this is going to be a great DVD!

ICD-259

And that's about all I have time for tonight-- I want to finish those last three Pink films of 1967 before turning in.

1967 Fever

That peek back to the bureaucracy-friendly, information-hostile Hell that is Wikipedia has really re-ignited my enthusiasm for contributing to IMDb. This week I finished the submissions of Pink films released in 1999 in record time, then submitted the Pink Film Award information for 1997-2000. I also gathered and began translating the credits for the Pink films of 2000. (Note that there are currently 104 titles in the 1999 link, and only 8 in the 2000 link. 2000 is about to be beefed up!) Now that it's the weekend, I've gone back to the early era of Pink that I love so much. I'm feverishly submitting info on Pink films released in 1967. So, the bad news is, I don't want to stop and take time out to do a BBW JAV review tonight. The good news is: I've whipped up a trip down mammary lane with some of the naughty beauties of five decades ago. Remember that Japanese actresses were generally thin and flat-chested at the time, so, even if these ladies don't compare to today's BBW standards, they might have qualified for Boobpedia-level buxomicity in their own day. It's all relative. But, without further ado, let's mentally put ourselves back in that day. Pour yourself a scotch on the rocks, sit back, and take a trip with me through the fascinating, mysterious world of the early, pre-JAV days of Japanese erotic entertainment: The Eroduction.

Japan's first Porn starlet: Tamaki Katori

First we must tip our hats to honor the grandest of grande dames in the history of Japanese erotic entertainment industry: Tamaki Katori. As star of Flesh Market (1962), officially the first Pink film, she was, officially, Japan's first porn star. "Porn" here is soft. Very soft. But from little acorns mighty oaks grow. Katori was still in prolific mid-career in 1967, appearing in a very high percentage of the films I've been working on. Her career total supposedly comes to 600 films!

Nami Katsura

Nami Katsura was a lovely lady who graced Pinkies from about 1965 until 1969. Though, oddly, I haven't yet come across a film she acted in in 1967 (JMDb lists one, but it's not at IMDb yet, nor in any of my other sources). [note 2014/09/15: Almost finished with 1967, I thought I found one she was in, but as I added her to the cast of Biyaku no wana, I found out it was actually released in November 1966.]

Nami Katsura

And Nami-san takes her hat off to her audience here. The Weisser book says that Ms. Katsura specialized in the S&M genre, which I can watch, but is not really my cup of tea. In this picture Ms. Katsura bares the ample assets for which she's been on my radar for quite some time. Cleavage like that was worth its weight in gold in Japan in the mid '60s.

Miki Hayashi

Miki Hayashi appears in a lot of the 1967 Pink films I've been inputting these days. She had been in the business since at least 1965 and continued working up til 1973, by which time, like many early indie pink stars, she had joined big studio Nikkatsu. In 1967, she was one of the many nurses massacred in Kôji Wakamatsu's celebrated Pinky-violent masterpiece Violated Angels.

Setsu Shimizu in Seijin Eiga #17, May 1967

Seijin Eiga (成人映画) "Adult Films" was the main journal attempting to seriously cover the new adult film genre in the '60s. Edited, surprisingly, by a woman-- Nobuko Kawashima, it was published monthly by Gendai Kôbô (現代工房) from 1965 to 1973. Here we see Setsu Shimizu, another of the more prolific starlets of 1967, decorating the pages of Seijin Eiga. The Weissers claim that Setsu-san only had two character types: The innocent school girl, or the ball-busting modern girl. 1967 was a big year for her. Having played supporting roles since 1965, she had her break-out role in 1967 in Shin'ya Yamamoto's Onna no seme, leading to starring roles in such films as Kôji Seki's Hentaima (1967), Japan's first 3-D sex film. 

Noriko Tatsumi

Noriko Tatsumi debuted in 1966 and stayed in front of the camera until 1971. She is recognized as the first major Queen of the Pink film. Her mark on world cinema was assured in 1967 when she starred in Atsumi Yamatoya's wacky cult classic Dutch Wife in the Desert.

Noriko Tatsumi

Yamatoya's film, unfortunately, is difficult to find these days, at least outside of Japan. However Noriko Tatsumi can be seen in the titular role in Pink master Mamoru Watanabe's Slave Widow (1967), one of the earliest and best Pink films widely available to English-speaking audiences, thanks to the 2008 DVD release by Cinema Epoch. Watanabe passed away in December last year, and this year was given a posthumous Pink Film Award in recognition of his career.

Naomi Tani early in her career

Also appearing in Slave Widow--in a minor role-- was future super-star, Naomi Tani. 1967 was the year of her debut, and her popularity can be gauged from the fact that IMDb has her listed in seventeen films for that year so far, and I'm not even done yet! Like Setsu Shimizu above, Tani was also featured in the May 1967 issue of Seijin Eiga magazine, as well as June and November of that year, if not more.

Naomi Tani in American Playboy, 1968

By 1968 she was well-known enough in the independent Pink genre to represent the Girls of Japan in a pictorial essay of that name for American Playboy. She would assure her cinematic immortality in Nikkatsu's S&M-themed Roman Porno films of the '70s, starting with the just-OK Flower and Snake, immediately followed by the genre-defining blockbuster Wife to Be Sacrificed, both released in 1974. But a decade earlier, 1967 was a year of major significance both in the career of Ms. Tani, and in the still new field of Japanese pornographic cinema: the Eroduction or Pink film.