Monthly Archives: June 2007
Feeling Glorious
Category Movies
I don’t know about you, but I’m sick of the weather here in New York. A week ago we had a searing hot spell. Before that, it was rain, rain, and still more rain. As I write this it has rained two out of every three days for a month. But sometimes rain is a [...]
The Good Guys
Category Movies
I’m done with school, I’m out in the world with a good many of those items that we chase after and desire, now either in my possession, or they’ve become forgotten dreams, or, they are current items on my credit card statement. There’s a lot of truth to the expression, ‘been there, done that’ — [...]
Yuka Hirata – White Canvas
Category Reviews
Yuka Hirata – White Canvas (2006) Liverpool Productions The Skinny: Yuka Hirata is off to Pattaya, Thailand, well actually it is Jomtien Beach, which is like a suburb south of Pattaya. She’s dark, and exotic looking, and rather cute. But the video seems like she visited Thailand when no one else did. Or maybe the [...]
Akari & Yuna Matsuda – Baku Nyu
Category Reviews
Baku Nyu – Akari & Yuna Matsuda Aqua House – Best Idols The Skinny: The summit meeting after Akari and Yuna Matsuda each performed in solo DVDs for Aqua House. This is top flight gravure material from relative newcomers that is marred only by a few annoying directorial excesses, and count them – three separate [...]
Yuriko Shiratori – Face
Category Reviews
Yuriko Shiratori – Face (2007) Liverpool/Mel’s Club The Skinny: An eclectic series of vignettes are the composition of this DVD entitled Face. While the overall style squarely places this one in the Gravure Idol camp, I get the feeling that the producers – Liverpool Productions and Mel’s Club – are still trying to figure how [...]
Kazusa Sato – Impact
Category Reviews
Kazusa Sato – Impact (2007) Creave/Story Fact/BM3 The Skinny: A Guam location bedeviled by often overcast skies, less than perfect light management, and a rather mundane game plan all are contributing factors to keeping the score at midrange on our scale. Despite the intriguing title, Impact, after watching the 56 minute DVD, you might find [...]
Love Balloon – Akari
Category Reviews
Akari – Love Balloon (2007) Aqua House – Splash Girls Series The Skinny: This is the companion DVD to B101 which I recently reviewed. This time the headliner is Akari. Though Akari and Yuna Matsuda appear in both B101 and this one, which is called Love Balloon, you can watch either DVD and not feel [...]