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 good thing.
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’ — and while it is not my mantra, it does fit comfortably.
But it wasn’t that long ago that hanging out in a tree fort, hikes in the forest with the dog, and Saturday afternoon at the movies were very important to me. And in those days, when it was summer, and there was no school, we’d play cowboys and Indians, cops and robbers, or G I Joe. It was fun to be a good guy. You could be heroic, brave, never run of make-believe ammo, and it was exciting to emulate heroes.
Growing up on Long Island, in a North Shore commuter town about forty miles east of Manhattan, we watched TV, played baseball, and absorbed as many movies as possible. And we loved those movie heroes. And today is no different … I still love my movie heroes.
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 hotel, the Botany Bay Resort, just didn’t have any other bookings. Oh well…
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 scenes where the girls are tied up with ropes.
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 to best market this model.
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 that you are asking – where, when and what exactly is the impact? (more…)
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 that you must acquire the other. It’s all about which model do you prefer.
Its also about Aqua House taking two models out for a series of DVDs, asking them to share a room, if not costumes, and coming away with three DVDs. What did you think, that they didn’t use the accountants to keep track of how many Yen were being spent…?