Nomoto Miho and Nagaike Takeshi

Back in 1995, a company called Kaioh published a bondage photo book featuring nude model and actress Nomoto Miho. The book's title was Rope -- Miho Nomoto Photo Album. It appears the book is now out of print and available only secondhand.

The cameraman was Garo Aida, a very experienced and prolific photographer of the naked female body.

Nomoto was born too late (1974) to have been involved in the pink movie business. It looks like she first came on the scene around the same year her book came out. And while her photos were most certainly shot on film, I'm not sure the same can be said for many of her movies. Video had already gotten a firm death grip on the industry by then.

Showa Pink Cinema

A colleague has pointed out that a book called Showa Pink Cinema (昭和桃色映画館) was published last year. Actress Katori Tamaki (see previous post) was interviewed for the book and it covers other actresses as well as former pink actors and directors.

The book's author is Suzuki Yoshiaki.

This is, of course, only in Japanese and it's unlikely we'll ever see a translation, mainly due to the esoteric subject matter.

Most of these little treasures, as you may be aware, are not shipped outside Japan but here are a couple of links anyway just for the heck of it.

Amazon
Shahyo