Nonami Takizawa – Kura-Kura – Nonami in Hawaii (December 15th, 2008)
Line Communications/I-One Series
Catalog # LCDV-40349 – Region 2 Disc – 4:3 Aspect
Running Time: 60 Minutes

The Skinny: This is the first of a Nonami Takizawa double release from Line Communications/I-One Series. This one, Kura-Kura is subtitled Nonami in Hawaii, and it is a gem.

After one of the best montages I’ve ever seen in a gravure video, the video launches with Nonami scampering about on a beach.This Chapter is called Sunshine Beach. She runs, spins, twirls, then gets dizzy and falls down. She’s pure energy or maybe it is adrenaline. Okay – maybe it was MY adrenaline.

What a rush watching this voluptuous woman attack the Hawaiian beach under a beautiful blue sky.

Sure, she gets sandy and needs a shower. This is a natural result of being active on a sandy beach. Luckily for us there’s an outdoor shower right there. We get a few OMG shots of Nonami’s impressive cleavage as she rinses away the sand.

Nonami shows up in a blue jersey dress in the next chapter. it’s a very short skirt and the collar is deeply cut. Looks like the only way they could shoot this scene is with some double sided tape. And Nonami’s hair is long enough to fill in some of the space in what would have otherwise been all cleavage. The scene begins on a balcony, but before it ends, Nonami will make a couple of stops on the stairs. They’ve done an excellent job with Nonami in this scene as she looks so very desirable.

Next stop is a jacuzzi. Nonami look very impressive in a scene created just too show off her boobs. Mind you this is a gravure idol DVD so we don’t get nudity. While she doesn’t remove her top of a navy and orange bikini, she does take off the bottoms. We see her hold up the navy bottoms and then she stands to reveal — the orange bottoms.

A cute joke has been played on we viewers. But that aside, Nonami flaunts her bust and looks damned cute while doing so. Simply a superb scene.

The next chapter is called Lunatic Bunny. And guess what? It is a perfectly apt title. Nonami is wearing a ruffled satin and lace bunny outfit. When the scene opens she’s laying on a hammock. Then she proceeds to hop around as well as crawl around on the beach. She’ll lob some tennis balls at someone, and then she’ll fool around with basketball. She drains her first shot but then misses a few. Throughout all of this, Nonami will display her huge boobs, and then act petulant when the camera points at them. It’s all in fun of course. My advice – don’t try to understand it, just enjoy the jiggling.

Next we find ourselves with Nonami on a piece of a desolate coastline. Nonami plays this scene with an attitude. She’ll flash just a hint of a smile a few times but for the majority of the scene, her face shows no emotion at all. While the sky was a rich blue, and we could see the sea behind Nonami, most of the foreground was a stone and dirty sand. I thought this was the wrong setting for what they asked her to do. And a bright and sunny blue sky didn’t fit with her expression.

Nonami wears a red sweater with black dots and white trim in the next scene. This was a good color selection against the green and white bedspread and beige paint on the walls. Her hair is up and she’s regained her playfulness. But her playfulness is just a stop along the way. This scene actually is a seduction. We the viewers are made to feel that we are the object of Nonami’s affection. She’s much too lady like in this scene to show pure lust. Instead it’s like without saying it, Nonami wants to make love.

Ok – next scene is back outside on the lawn. They call it Dance, Dance. More likely they should have called it Show Us How You Can Jiggle Your Big Breasts – only they couldn’t call it that. While it wasn’t unpleasant – I mean watching Nonami crawl and jiggle is lots of fun to watch, there’s no way that this was dancing.

Time for a hot scene? Ok. Next Nonami is a black lace bra and panties set in a bathtub. Yes – the gooey liquid soap makes an appearance, and yes – there’s cleavage galore. Nonami plays this scene with a ton of allure, and she succeeds. I think the camera and direction couldn’t stay away from the body shots. This was a very hot scene despite the falling shower water. PS, at then end of the scene Nonami removes her faux-leopard-skin robe -  and she’s bra-less. She;s also facing away from us.

How about a veil and a boudoir costume next. Nonami looks great but I thought the veil and the huge flower on her head were a bit of over-kill as was the bubbles that were continually in the air. I think they wasted an opportunity in this one.

But it was a brief scene. And in blink of an eye, or what the call a fade out fade in, we are back in bed with Nonami. Here Nonami wears blue undies. This scene is slow paced and lacks only a lot of movement or motion in the beginning. Once again we are treated to some fabulous views of a world-class cleavage.

But the tempo of the scene changes. Nonami does her best impersonation of Yoko Matsugane simulating a sex scene. We see Nonami beneath, on top, and in a doggy style posture. Her movements are restrained yet unmistakable. I can’t ever recall seeing Nonami Takizawa doing a scene like this before. The times are  changing.

The next vision has Nonami wearing just some gauze strips. She’ll take up a position on a table. But the scene breaks down. The music is wrong, and the director opts to have a series of obstacles obstruct our view. He is always shooting around or through a chair. Nonami will reach out with her hand as if to block our view by bringing her hand near or over the lens. This has been a recurring theme throughout maybe half the chapters. It’s never for very long, and for sure Nonami isn’t the least bit shy about flaunting her huge breasts, so it is a something of a puzzle.

Gold Mountain is next. Nonami wears green and gold including bangles on her wrists and a gold necklace all of which is perfectly set against the rocks and the hills with wild grass behind her. They’ve got her wearing high heels which wasn’t the right shoes for where she was positioned. However there’s a nice breeze and with her hair in continuous motion the scene looked good despite some awkwardness when she was posed on the ricks.

The last of the main chapters is the beach at sunset. Nonami looks simply gorgeous in this one. While the scene itself might have been done better – Nonami has never looked more alluring than she does in this one.

There’s the standard tee-shirt signing  which follows in every one of the I-One Series. Nonami signs a Macky’s Kahuka Sweet Shrimp tee shirt. Macky’s Shrimp truck is one of the best kept secrets in Oahu, Hawaii. Yours truly receives nothing for this product placement.

Also a standard for thr iI-One series is the behind the scene special movie, a text base profile of Nonami where we learn that she has bust measurement of 85cms and is an I-Cup.There’s also a series of 8 Polaroid autographed shots that you can look through.

Summary – another tour-de-force starring Nonami Takizawa. I think it is a wonderful DVD despite a few flaws described above. Nonami look great throughout, and her outfits are getting more and more revealing. I can’t give a perfect score, but I can say that Nonami is at the top of her game these days. She can be sexy, playful, adorable, alluring, or most likely she can be anything you want to imagine for her. I don’t think there’s a better model working in the gravure field these days. Four point five is the rating and this DVD is highly recommended.

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