Nonami Takizawa - Rakuen
Nonami Takizawa - Rakuen (2007)
Line Communications Idol-One Series
Catalogue # LCDV-40274 - Region 2 Disc
The Skinny: Toubou, with this one, Rakuen, formed a recent double release from Line Communication’s Idol One Series. The headliner is the stunning Nonami Takizawa . Nonami is bustier than ever and the costumes are smaller than ever. Despite some technical flaws, this is a win-win for we viewers.
The montage is truly impressive and exciting This is a cut above what you normally expect or see in a montage, no doubt most easily explained when you consider that the model is truly impressive.
Anyway, the first chapter follows the montage and in a stylistic surprise, this chapter is itself a montage , as we get a series of shots that have been assembled by editing rather than a natural sequential flow. What I mean is she’s sitting, then standing, or next she might be sitting on the couch, or lying on the bed.
We get none of the transitional moments. She begins in a white blouse over a rather tiny bra and panties. As I said most impressive. Below she’s on the bed and the shot has been set up to accentuate her massive boobs. Wise choice.
Chapter two finds us out on the lawns. After a brief bit of some playful (now you see me - now you don’t) hiding behind some palm trees, Nonami settles down slightly.
This scene will employ a standard garden hose and our model will use the hose for some wonderful effects, no doubt helped by a zoom lens utilized to shorten the depth of field, and some rather well done slow motion that is so smoothly executed you wouldn’t know it was slow motion except for the effects on display of the falling water.
Chapter Three finds Ms Takizawa out on the beach in a brief red bikini. She’s constantly jumping around, or dancing, or tossing hand fulls of sand into her own cleavage. While this is the opposite of one of those slow moving scenes with a model on the beach, I thought it wasn’t particularly natural- seemed too artificial because we are confined to a specific 20 feet of beach.
In short too much action in too small of a space. Said another way - the camera didn’t move much at all besides zooming in and out, there was hardly any side to side motion - instead Nonami was hyper active in that small area.
Whether she was in the water or on the beach; the camera never changed positions. I thought this scene was poorly designed, and then the execution of it was scatter-shot at best.
On the other hand, the next two scenes were both in the bath. First Nonami worked with water falling from a shower head, then she was in the tub filled with water. No sense gushing about it - as they say pictures are worth a 1000 words. Or as they say in all the books about screen writing - show don’t tell.
Now that I’ve shown you some of the images from the bath, I must tell you that this scene was edited quite poorly. Many of the cuts were jarring. They would pan up Nonami’s figure towards her face, center on her face, then slowly the camera would drift up towards the upper left - a standard way to close out a scene. Or at least you would think they would be closing the scene.
Then pow! Right back to her cleavage. Another slow pan upward to her face, then the camera would drift off to the right and you’d see the water of the tub. Then pow! Right back to her cleavage. Mind you, I’m not objecting to these great closeups of a monumental bust, but they have to work them in differently. Some transitions, or a fade out and a fade in were needed- not just one quick jump cut after another.
Back in the living room - Nonami appears to us leaning over to show off her cleavage. We back up a bit and she straightens up. She’s wearing a brief two piece knit workout ensemble. She does a lot of stretching, and some brief aerobics. Nothing special here other than a multitude of poses directing our attention to her bust.
Then an exotic Nonami appears in a costume designed to evoke the image/thought of an Middle Eastern belly dancer. Then in fact Nonami begins to belly dance.
It is clear she hasn’t had the training or the experience to pull this off, so she doesn’t look good attempting to dance while at the same time the costume is very nice right up to and including the half-veil over her face.
Next is Nonami wearing some sort of wide open blouse. This top doesn’t have buttons, doesn’t have zippers. It’s like it is merely draped over her upper body with just a single tie connecting the two halves.
It is also clear that she is bra-less beneath this rig. If you look carefully you can easily see two patches over her nipples, so there’s zero chance of seeing them spiking into prominence. The skirt is a very brief and we get lots of glimpses of her white panties beneath.
They trot out one of the oldest and most often deployed tricks to show off a woman’s bust. You know the one - have her drink from a water glass, with lots of spillage right down into her cleavage.
While this scene is energetic as Nonami does move about considerably, she’s on this same love seat for the entire scene. Again a lot of motion in a small space just as we saw in the beach scene.
Next is a disco scene. Aside from the opening shot of a whirling and spinning strobe light gizmo, you might not realize that you are in disco until deep in the scene when you see some speakers on the floor. What we get at first is a view of Nonami working behind a lattice work railing. However the best images are without the railing in the way.
Anyway, Nonami looks great and her monokini is deeply cut and very revealing, so this is a must see scene if you love big-busted models. Unfortunately it is again clear that Ms Takizawa is not much of a dancer.
But it is a sensational costume. So good that they immediately have a second scene with this same one-of-a-kind rigging which supports and shows off her great boobs at once. As pool scenes go, this is one of the best.
The Chapter called Freedom is next. Nonami is wearing a buttoned knit top but just one of the buttons is employed. She’s bra-less and her hair is not tied, or pulled back, or set in any way. It’s just the natural look of a woman with her hair down. Initially, they’ve squeezed Nonami into a rather confined space surround by concrete blocks so she doesn’t have any space for more than a little side to side motion. This works for us. But as the scene progresses it finally does open up. Unfortunately, that single button keeping her top closed never opens.
The last scene features Nonami in a bath-tub. There’s a large candle providing illumination as well as some light wands in the bathwater. It’s very atmospheric but there’s a certain sameness to it as the minutes pass.
They also employ a hand-held flashlight which shines on Nonami’s face throughout except when they lower the beam and highlight her cleavage. A good idea? Yes - but the scene had no legs, and I don’t mean Nonami isn’t standing. It’s just a scene that begins well, but doesn’t get very far.
There’s a promo with Nonami signing a Cebu tee-shirt. In fact the DVD was shot at the famous JWB Hotel which is located at Maribago, Cebu Island, The Philippines. We’ve been to this resort before. Rio Natsume did a scene in a similar room at the same hotel in her Lemon-T DVD.
Here’s a view of the bathtub without the models.
There’s more goodies - the usual array of polaroid photos with autographs as well as the lengthy making of segment. We revisit each of the scenes and it’s worth checking out as we see Nonami through the lens of an auxiliary camera, so editing isn’t an issue.
Summary: A marvelous model - cute, sexy, and supremely busty. While the DVD has plenty to recommend, it also has some semi-serious issues. I’ve watched plenty of DVDs and this one really angered me with its jarring cuts and edits. I also must tell you that the director seems extremely disinterested in showing you much of the resort.
A few scenes in the beginning were outdoors, but most that follow are indoors. The backgrounds were usually overly white. Or the scenes weren’t opened up enough - an entire scene on the single sofa, or the entire beach scene shot from one single camera set up/position.
Yet I must give it up for Nonami Takizawa. She’s enchanting, she’s delightful, and she’s got a body that is best described as voluptuous. I’ll score the DVD at four point zero.
You may read Zatoichi’s review of this DVD here. And below are links to buy this DVD.