Friday, November 22, 2013
SM Safari Summer and Fall Edition
I mentioned the above mag in this post. I saw it at the Aratama bookshop in Jimbocho but it was out of my price range. Since then, I've been on a couple of SM Safaris to the secret shop closer to me which, though the store itself is pretty big, does have a much smaller selection of SM mags.
But, the prices are smaller, too, and I found this special edition of SM King magazine for a very reasonable price, indeed.
I mentioned in the other post that these magazines with Tani Naomi in them really have their prices jacked up but, for some reason, the secret shop has prices that are lower than anything I've seen -- even online.
Monday, July 8, 2013
The Ito Seiu Films
Artist of the bizarre, Ito Seiu, 1882-1961 |
The films that have to do with Ito are:
End of the Bizarre (猟奇の果て), 1966, Yamabe Pro
Beauty's Exotic Dance, Torture! (発禁本 美人乱舞 より 責める!), 1977, Nikkatsu
Three-Sided Figure Dream, (三面夢姿繪), 2000, A&E Films
Oyo (およう), 2002, Shochiku
Thursday, June 27, 2013
This Just In: Scene from the First Flower and Snake Film
Scene from the first ever Flower and Snake film |
The lady in the photo, and the star of the film, is Murasaki Chizuru. A check with JMDb (J) reveals only four movies to her credit. According to this source, she made her first film in 1954 and Flower and Snake was her last one. Whether or not this is a complete filmography, I don't know.
I can't tell if Yamabe Nobuo was the producer. The distributor is shown as Tokyo Planning (Tokyo Kikaku). Dan Oniroku, the author of Flower and Snake which first began running in installments in Kitan Club magazine in 1962, is listed as the bondage master.
The director was Kobayashi Satoru, famous for directing Japan's first pink film, and the assistant director was none other than Wakamatsu Koji. Also, Tako Hachiro, former Japan national boxing champion, comedian and Oni Pro member, appeared in the film. I wrote a bit about Tako Hachiro in my interview with Sugiura Norio on my old blog. It's still out there somewhere.
Kitan Club covered first Flower and Snake film in August 1965 |
Still no sign of a theatrical poster for the first of this amazing run of films.
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Tuesday, June 18, 2013
The Second Flower and Snake Poster
The second Flower and Snake film, Yamabe Pro, 1966 |
There are other slightly different translations but they sound weird to me. For one thing, the word shibare appears in the title. Some might think this is a misspelling and the word should be shibari. But the hiragana doesn't lie. Shibare is correct. It is the imperative form of the verb shibaru (to tie).
Tuesday, April 30, 2013
SM Safari in Jimbocho
A large selection of Uramado magazines |
Friday, March 15, 2013
The Very First Issue of 成人映画
Seijin Eiga, issue #1, July 1965, Michi Kanako on the cover |
The mag was first published in July 1965, pretty much at the dawn of the pink movie era. I can't really say when the pink era began (some claim as early as 1962); I guess it depends on your definition of a pink film. But I think it's fair to say that the boom really started around 1965.
Whatever the case, this magazine certainly was a pioneer in its field and it continued publishing for at least 93 monthly issues (or until 1973), however, I don't know exactly when it ceased publication.
Over its lifetime, Seijin Eiga chronicled the ups and downs of the pink film industry, focusing on such actresses as Matsui Yasuko, Uchida Takako, Kano Kazuko, Nitaka Keiko, Katsura Nami, and so on. Top directors such as Wakamatsu Koji were frequently profiled.
Here's a view of the back cover.
Seijin Eiga, issue #1, back cover, July 1965 |
Monday, March 11, 2013
March SM Safari
Hizo-ban Fuzoku Gaho magazine, July 1964 |
This is a pretty good mag, especially considering it came out in 1964, the same year as the Tokyo Olympics. I think the best magazines came along in the '70s but I just can't resist some of these more obscure periodicals. This is another one I had never heard of before.
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