Hiroko Sato – Lily White
Aqua House – Splash Girl Series
The Skinny – Take a beautiful woman, send her to a beach resort somewhere, bungle the video, sell it anyway.
Every one who has a look at the stunning Hiroko Sato generally is impressed as in very impressed. She’s flat out gorgeous. I absolutely adored her recent videos from Rome and Sardinia (quad photos above). You can click the links above to read those reviews.
What we get in Lily White is a DVD that concentrates on talking and hardly delivers us much to see and savor.
Most gravure idol DVDs are set up to deliver lots and lots of great scenes where we get to appreciate the model’s beauty plus some interview footage intercut between scenes to give us some idea about what she’s like as a person.
Lily White reverses the process. More talking than I’ve ever seen in gravure idol DVD seems to surround a few glamor scenes. As I don’t understand enough Japanese to have even the vaguest idea of what she was saying, I’ll simply pass on the fact that these scenes were when you would be reaching for your remote.
Hiroko shops for clothes that don’t do much for her. She goes bowling and I’m betting they showed every single one of her frames. PS she didn’t break 75.
There’s a long ride on a tram above a city. What we get is about ten minutes of this ride, Hiroko chatters away throughout. The questions appear in Japanese script and she rambles on and on. Fortunately she was lively and animated, but confined in a single cable car meant for just two people, it was a bit claustrophobic as well as boring.
There’s a night scene with fireworks, sorry – make that sparklers. Hiroko wears shorts and a sweatshirt. This is a throwaway scene. It follows some smokey footage from a barbecue. Hiroko mows down row after row of a corn cob.
Basically, this is a failed video. It is a gravure DVD turned inside out. It’s more like a video made about the trip with a few scenes of Hiroko working as a model mixed in with the conversations and ‘vacation’ footage.
Still, there’s enough worthwhile images that I was able to capture from the DVD to earn a review on our pages. I loved the model, hated the DVD, and that’s not a good mixture for a good score. Two point seven five is the rating and that’s the bad news.
The good news is that this DVD was released way back in 2003, and the lovely Hiroko Sato has moved on to bigger and better DVDs.
http://www.amazon.co.jp/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000AKIBG/ref=nosim/commercelink-DVD12-22