Bear with me here, it’s going to be a little difficult maintaining a pragmatic manner while I offer my thoughts on this DVD. I try to restrict the amount of time I spend writing reviews. But this DVD turned out to be too good for that, it’s just that bloody amazing. I’ve reviewed about 11 dvds since the start of the slog (though now officially blog, old slog is on the forum), and this one without any question is the best. Of course, I can’t wait till something else better comes along either, yet it always seems to happen. The overabundance of idol videos on the net in the past few years has made it a particularly good time to be an Asian beauty fanatic, such as myself. I mean, my XP has just crashed from some unknown stability issue twice today, and yet I feel totally pacified just thinking about this dvd (Genuine Windows software alerts coming up, I’ve been tolerating it for about a month, now, but here it just took a bad turn for the worse). A pint of St.Peter’s Winter Ale does help the mood too, to be honest.
Anyway, this blog and all of its reviews will inevitably serve as a comprehensive document of my unsurpassed enthusiasm for asian girls and ocd catalogue of exactly how I like them. That, of course, promises amusement. So, this one makes for a valuable dvd, because in the grand survey of what’s hot and what’s not in my little personal universe, Suzu Minamoto here hits the nail right on the head. Like…. about eight hundred and seventy one times. After a couple scenes it occurred to me that she’s strikingly close to Yukari Nakai, who commands an amazing amount of power over my attention span. When it’s Yukari Nakai on the screen, I can barely concentrate. That, and a little of Isa Aoki.
I’ve been following the career of a particular Japanese actress for a few years. Her name is Yuko Takeuchi. She was born on April 1st, 1980 so she’s 30 years old now. Her career in acting may have started before 1996, but that was the year she appeared in her first Japanese TV Drama Series which was called Saibougu. Her first film appearance was in 1998 in a film called Innocent World. Those were 14 and 12 years ago. I wasn’t able to find anything on Saibougu, but here is a clip from Yuko’s first film appearance.
From that beginning role, Yuko has gone on to win a number of awards for acting in both films and TV, so I thought I’d present a look back at Yuko on both the big screen and the small screen. From this point, I’m going to limit the presentations to those shows that I’ve actually seen. We will follow these chronologically so you so you get to watch as Yuko seemingly has grown more beautiful with the passing of years.
Lunch Queen Cover
In 2002, Yuko was the female lead in a TV series called Lunch no Joou or Lunch Queen. Yuko had top billing as Natsumi Nagita, a girl for who lunch was the highlight of the day. Through some rather unique circumstances, Natsumi ends up working at this restaurant called The Macaroni Kitchen. The restaurant was famous for it’s Rice Omellette with a demi-glaze sauce as shown in the image.
I’m sure that the majority of the members who are active within the forum have a favorite model/idol/celebrity that they use as the avatar picture for their account. Most likely, there’s a story behind why that particular person is your favorite or choose to associate yourself with that person. While sending visitor messages to PrinceAvalon, I became curious about Keiko Kitagawa, whose photos were being used as his avatar and profile photo, and is currently his favorite idol.
While checking her thread, I thought it would be good to feature her for the blog. Then I thought of a better idea. In addition to me creating this article for Keiko, I would get PrinceAvalon to talk about how he found out about her and why Keiko is currently his favorite idol. Hopefully, I can get more forum members to take part in this because I find it interesting to hear from those who are huge fans of a particular person.
The Skinny: Momoka Yamada has now done 10 DVDs for Akira Takatsuki’s Gas Web/Tits Japan Label. When I started with Akira, he was almost a one-man show: directing, editing, and doing the marketing as well. His TITS: Japan label wasn’t even in existence back then.
So the Gas label has come along way since those early days when his big tit video line was called The Bomber Girl Series. Maybe Akira is now simply producing because this DVD was directed by another gentleman, Tetsuya Mori.
Either way, we find Momoka prancing along in Yokohama in a waterfront park. That curved building which you’ll see a few moments into the opening chapter is the Intercontinental Yokohama Grand Hotel. It’s the one next to the Ferris-wheel.
Looks like late February weather as Momoka can’t wait to get back into her parka and the trees lack leaves. It is the kind of grey day when you won’t find many folks in the park, nor will the place look festive.
For the most part, she wanders around, takes a ride on the ferris wheel, play peek-a-boo with the camera man around some brick columns, and even though her outfit is design to call attention to her huge bust, she seems almost wary about showing it off. Or it was really, really cold. So they have their time out doors and before everyone gets too cold they decide it is is time to back to the hotel and get to work.
Momoka, and likely the unseen crew, then retire to her room in the aforementioned hotel. Her costume was a jumper dress with a white turtlenecked sweater beneath. Since the dress was gathered with a big bow beneath her bust, it created sort of a shelf which emphasizes the size and thrust of her boobs.
It’s been a while since I wrote about a beauty to appreciate, so today I wanted to write about someone who I haven’t checked out in a long while. Megumi is one of the first idols that I took notice to when I discovered ScanLover.com back in 2005 when the main site still existed. It sucks that she retired from being a gravure model and is currently an actress. At least we can always go back and check out her photos on the forum.
This post also came at a great time because Megumi will also be celebrating her 29th birthday in a few days. In another year, she’ll become part of the Mature Wing. I wish I knew more about her, but if you happen to do so, make sure you leave a comment and share your thoughts with everyone.
The China Lover is the 2008 novel by Ian Buruma, a Dutchman now living in New York and teaching at Bard College. I’ve included the novel as the introduction to this article because the book jackets cover art are really eye catching.
The subject of the novel, or maybe it should be called a historical-fiction book based on real life events, is Yoshiko Yamaguchi who was also known as Shirley Yamaguchi, Li Xianglan, and Ri Kouran. Yoshiko was born in Manchuria in 1920 to Japanese parents.
Following the Sino-Japanese War. The Japanese had set up a puppet Manchurian government. By the late 1930′s, she’d grown into a very pretty and talented young woman who soon caught the eyes of the Japanese working there. Yamaguchi wanted more than anything else to be a singer and a movie star. The Japanese believed they had struck gold with this talented young woman, because she was fluent in both Mandarin and Japanese. Her movie career began and her career seemed to be fast tracked. But there was a problem.
Yamaguchi, was asked to pose as a Chinese girl by her Japanese handlers. Though born in China, and raised in China, she was Japanese. She was even given a Chinese name, Li Xianglan, to attract the Chinese audiences.
Five people, all twenty-somethings, are active in the workplace as well as members of the digital world. Somehow, via Twitter, or some other social network which they’ve used to communicate, they ultimately agree to meet. This is how the 11 week Japanese TV series called Sunao ni Narenakute begins. I’m not sure what the title actually means – but the tag-line of the series is - It’s hard to say I love you, and that is a pretty good description about what will follow.
Basically, over the life of the series, which ran this year from mid-April through June 24th, we will learn some in depth info about the five lead characters. We watch as they struggle with their problems like: their aversion to commitments, their lack of confidence, their unwillingness to either express the truth or to face it.
If that sounds kind of grim and disturbing to you, you can rest assured that the series is not completely or only about bumps in the road, it only seems that way. The cast is youthful, attractive, and their problems/issues are not too remote for most of us to identify with or relate to. As they’ve agreed to meet for the first time in the opening Episode, I’ll give you a little thumbnail sketch about each of them to help you decide if you’d like to watch this series.
I haven’t looked at photos of Minase in a very long time which is a shame because she is such a cutie, plus she is in one of my all time favorite photos for a gravure model. Just recently, I became reacquainted with her when I saw this post. So if you are like me and haven’t checked out Minase in a while, here’s your chance to do so.
Shinzanmono is a Japanese TV Series that just ended its run last Sunday night, June 20th. Broadcast on Japan’s TBS Network, this show was definitely prime time as it aired on Sunday nights at 9:00 PM. The 10 episodes of the series can most simply be described as a detective story. The crime was a murder, and it took place in the Ningyo-cho neighborhood of Nihonbashi, Tokyo. Of course the series was shot in the very neighborhood being portrayed.
I think shinzanmono means something along the lines of ‘new neighborhood people or person’, which is what Detective Kaga Kyoichiro is in Ningyo-cho. Kaga was just tranferred to the Nihonbashi precinct, is placed in charge of the case. With virtually all of the residents of the neighborhood’s main shopping street, harboring one secret or another, they will all emerge as suspects, Detective Kaga must use his keen sense of deductive reasoning to uncover the truth about these people as well as solve the case..
Much of that is from the synopsis provided on the d-addicts.com website. But it really doesn’t do the series justice. Calling it a detective show is truly an over-simplification. Unlike American detective shows where the detective solves a new crime each week, this series focuses on just the one case. We, much like Detective Kaga, are in the dark. Though we witnessed the murder in the opening episode, and have seen snippets of it, in flashbacks, in every episode that followed, we still have no idea. This is a literal, “Who done it?”
When I saw this bit of news this morning, I couldn’t believe it. But not only does Anri Suzuki have a doctorate in history, but as a way to apologize for the Japanese invasion of China, she has been offering free sex sessions to the Chinese students who are studying in Japan. While focused on the Japanese invasion of China, Anri was shocked to learn about her country’s past, so she’s atoning for those past wrongdoings by offering sexual compensation.
If I was a Chinese student studying there, I would take her up on this offer in a heartbeat. You’d be silly not to. But I hope that this bit of news brings some attention to the readers here who are also unaware of the Japanese invasion of China, which is a history that doesn’t get much attention and when the Japanese government has repeatedly try to deny and remove from textbooks.
