The Non-Synapse Roman Porno Thread

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So... Takuma will probably be happy about a couple of these, too bad one of them is a DVD and not Blu but oh well.

So these are coming from Happinet in Japan. The DVDs listed below are first time on DVD.

July 4th:

Angel Guts Limited Edition Blu-Ray box with four of the films (because the first one will never be seen again... :down:)

All four films will also be available separately on the same day.

Then new on DVD:
White Skin Glimmering In the Darkness 闇に浮かぶ白い肌
Bawdy Tales of Edo: Octopus & Sea Shell 江戸艶笑夜話 蛸と赤貝
Onsen Geisha: Yubune de Ippatsu 温泉芸者 湯舟で一発
Maruhi onsen: iwaburo jōji (秘)温泉 岩風呂の情事
Blue Lagoon: A Summer Experience ひと夏の体験 青い珊瑚礁


October 3rd:

Twisted Path of Love 恋人たちは濡れた Blu-Ray
A Woman with Red Hair 赫い髪の女 Blu-Ray
Rouge ルージュ Blu-Ray
Yumeno kyūsaku no shōjo jigoku 夢野久作の 少女地獄 Blu-Ray

DVD:
Secret Honeymoon: Rape Train (秘)ハネムーン 暴行列車
Lewd Widow 淫絶未亡人
Toruko maruhi saizensen: -mitsugi 96 te – ソープ(秘)最前線 密技96手
ＳＥＸ dainamaito madonna no shizuku SEXダイナマイト マドンナのしずく
Dream Crimes 夢犯

January 6th 2018:

Female Teacher: In Front of the Students 女教師 生徒の眼の前で Blu-Ray
Crazy/Crazed Fruit 狂った果実 Blu-Ray
Slave Contract 奴隷契約書 Blu-Ray
Dark Room 暗室 Blu-Ray

DVD:
Uniform Girls: The Fruit Is Ripe 制服体験トリオ わたし熟れごろ
Hōru in rabu: kusamura no yokujō ホールインラブ 草むらの欲情
Waisetsuna Onna: Kuroi Hada ni Naku ワイセツな女 黒い肌に泣く
Sex Rider: Wet Highway セックス・ライダー 濡れたハイウェイ
Lady Kamakura: Cherry Boy Club 鎌倉夫人 童貞倶楽部

[Takuma Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Takuma]

Thanks! I'm totally gonna get Crazed Fruit BD and Rape Train DVD.

Also happy to see that Woman of the Afternoon: Incite will have a cheap dvd re-issue in January 2018. The original release is OOP and expensive.

[tek8080 Member Find all posts View Profile Close tek8080]

Angel Guts Limited Edition Blu-Ray box with four of the films (because the first one will never be seen again... :down:)

I'm a noob to the Roman Porno line. Why won't the first Angel Guts ever be released again? Is it due to the content, or something else?

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I'm a noob to the Roman Porno line. Why won't the first Angel Guts ever be released again? Is it due to the content, or something else?

The facts are a bit unclear, but what we do know for certain is that Nikkatsu has pulled all Machiko Ohtani films from distribution. Not only do they refuse to release or license any, but the old VHS casette listings have been removed from Amazon and her name has disappeared from many Japanese online movie databases.

Apparently she deeply regretted ever having appeared in Roman Porno films. One online comment from a decade ago claims that she's been dead for years already, and the request to pull her films was made by her family, but I don't know how reliable that information is. I can't even confirm whether she really is dead or not.

Thanks to Sundance for doing the detective work :up:

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Yeah, thank you Takuma and Sundance. Very interesting, and not something I would have guessed!

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I've been wanting to see FEMALE DELINQUENT: A DOCU-DRAMA ever since I read in Weisser's book that it's based on an infamous real life delinquent chick. But who knows with Weisser since I heard that its riddled with errors with half truths. Btw, do you know anything about this Shinichi Shiratori RP from 1982? It's romanized as ONNA JIMUIN -- what's the English translation of the title? features one of the biggest stars of the era in Maiko Kazama. Pretty standard fare till the gang rape near the end complete with some sleaze ball taking photos of the proceedings. Where's Maito guy of late? He seems to be the resident RP expert around these parts -- maybe he has further info?

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Angel Guts Artworks







- http://www.nikkatsu-romanporno.com/t...017/04/bd4.php

Can't say I'm impressed. And seeing how Nikkatsu's recent RP transfers have turned out, I'm fearing the worst for the transfers too...

[enandalusiskhund An Andalusian Dog Find all posts View Profile Close enandalusiskhund]

I actually like that Angel Guts artwork. Only wish the Japanese would sub their releases in English.

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That artwork be looking like shit for real. Do you know how much this set us going to be priced? I know it's not going to be cheap like most jap releases. I wouldn't mind eventually picking it up just to make some custom BD-Rs with English subs.

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I've been wanting to see FEMALE DELINQUENT: A DOCU-DRAMA ever since I read in Weisser's book that it's based on an infamous real life delinquent chick. But who knows with Weisser since I heard that its riddled with errors with half truths. Btw, do you know anything about this Shinichi Shiratori RP from 1982? It's romanized as ONNA JIMUIN -- what's the English translation of the title? features one of the biggest stars of the era in Maiko Kazama. Pretty standard fare till the gang rape near the end complete with some sleaze ball taking photos of the proceedings. Where's Maito guy of late? He seems to be the resident RP expert around these parts -- maybe he has further info?

Hey, still reading a lot here on the forum, but didn't really have time to post anything as of lately. Hope this will get better again!

As for ONNA JIMUIN, I'm sorry but I don't know anything about it. Haven't seen it and I don't really plan on doing so anywhere in near future (have to admit that I didn't quite enjoy most of the other films I saw from Shinichi Shiratori).

That artwork be looking like shit for real. Do you know how much this set us going to be priced? I know it's not going to be cheap like most jap releases. I wouldn't mind eventually picking it up just to make some custom BD-Rs with English subs.

The set is currently available to preorder from Amazon Japan for about 14,000 Yen (should equal about 120-130 US Dollar). But I guess you'd have to add quite some shipping and import costs due to Amazon Japan not directly sending any adult-oriented movies to anywhere outside of Japan: Angel Guts Boxset Amazon JP

That said I really dig these artworks and have this currently on preorder. Looking especially forward to the commentaries by Ishii which alone are worth this release for me. Only real disappointment for me was that the first one is not included, but I guess hope is lost there anyway, at least in near future.

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Engulfed By Darkness (Yami ni dakarete; Takeda Kazunari, 26.2.1986)

Not posting much lately but still watching Roman Porno and also Nikkatsu Action flicks on a regular basis. Caught this late one by Takeda Kazunari just a few days ago and was quite impressed by it. Takeda also directed the superb WOMAN'S TRAIL: WET PATH (Onna no hosomichi: Nureta kaikyo, 1982) which also found a place in Takuma's top list (great list by the way!) and the HOUSEWIFE'S REPORT trilogy in the mid 70ies, which I have yet to see. The movie has a great script by Takada Jun who also wrote the PINK CURTAIN trilogy and features the incredible talented as well as beautiful Kazamatsuri Yuki in one of her best roles. She seems to stare quite often as a single working woman, so of course also in this one.

Mieko (Kazamatsuri Yuki) shares a household together with her female friend/working colleague Ayako who has a relationship with a married man called Honma. After getting caught and confronted by Honma's wife Ayako ends up on a trip to Ejima with another guy trying to commit double suicide various times. Mieko and Honma warned by a telephone call by Ayako herself the same night she leaves go on a trip to Ejima themselves to find and rescue her.

The movie consists completely out of four characters:Mieko, Ayako, Honma and Ayako's double suicide partner. While the story itself follows quite standard melodramatic tropes the characters and their relationships to each other is what makes this little one quite worthwhile in my opinion. All four are completely realized characters seeming not only very real but also are given very distinct and interesting personalities. On top of that comes some great directing by Takeda who really shines in some quiet, almost nonrelevant seeming scenes which end up telling much about the characters, their respective hopes and dreams and relationships to each other within just a few shots and cuts.

A small little film perfectly showing the capabilities of the Roman Porno genre.

[Sundance Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Sundance]

This whole Angel Guts boxset thing feels kinda stupid when the first film is not included.

I sort of hope the discs will be from somewhat older interlaced scans so that way they might actually present them without too much filtering and original (though who knows what the original is...) colors. :P

Maybe the involvement of Ishii will make them not fuck this up. Or maybe Ishii wants to make his film look different and since it is a series and all the other directors are dead, they will fuck up the rest as well... ;)

I have lost all hope (about everything...).

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Hey, still reading a lot here on the forum, but didn't really have time to post anything as of lately. Hope this will get better again!

You have been sorely missed. I hope you find more time to post!

A small little film perfectly showing the capabilities of the Roman Porno genre.

Glad to hear that. I'm thinking about seeing this at Cine Roman later this month... I'll be town for a Teruo Ishii retro and need to kill some time. But I have never been to that theater (they are very much a "pink theater" and rarely screen anything that interests me) and I have no idea about the screening formats. Hopefully 35mm but who knows...

I sort of hope the discs will be from somewhat older interlaced scans so that way they might actually present them without too much filtering and original colors. :P

Same here. I don't know what the hell Nikkatsu is trying to do with the new transfers. Make em look like Michael Bay films?

The problem is painfully evident with the DVD-only titles. The old Geneon discs had much better transfers...

(though who knows what the original is...)

I do I've seen Red Classroom from an excellent 35mm print.

Do I remember exactly how it looks like? No. Do I need to? No. The big secret is (despite some conspiracy theories at BD.com forums and elsewhere) 97% of the 60s and 70s Japanese films have the roughly same overall look, that is colorful but pretty natural (not counting scenes where odd colors are used as a special effect). It's very easy to remember the rare exceptions. Red Classroom was not an exception.

I have lost all hope (about everything...).

[Takuma Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Takuma]

I achieved another life goal: watched a Roman Porno (*) with my girlfriend. As I had planned, I chose Delicate Skillful Fingers (1972). She seemed to like it more or less, certainly didn't hate it.

For me it was the second time seeing it. Some poor acting by Hiroko Isayama and Hajime Tanimoto aside, it's such a good film. So many fantastic scenes (the shower room party, Isayama and Araki's first meeting, all the pick pocketing scenes, the vivid early 70s Tokyo footage...), absolutely wonderful score and a cool as hell Ichiro Araki performance. Wow!

* We did see Wet Woman in the Wind in theatre, but that's a Reboot film, a bit different hence...

Btw, Nippon Connection will be holding a small Roman Porno retro with 9 titles.
http://www.nipponconnection.com/retro-en.html

Nice, but I'm not terribly impressed with that line-up. In addition to quality, the cool thing about Roman Porno was its diversity. There could be anything from a pink giallo to a cop thriller to a rock band docu-drama... That diversity is very much missing from Nippon Connection's selection which consists of 9 dramas from 2 directors...

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Btw, Nippon Connection will be holding a small Roman Porno retro with 9 titles.
http://www.nipponconnection.com/retro-en.html

Nice, but I'm not terribly impressed with that line-up. In addition to quality, the cool thing about Roman Porno was its diversity. There could be anything from a pink giallo to a cop thriller to a rock band docu-drama... That diversity is very much missing from Nippon Connection's selection which consists of 9 dramas from 2 directors...

From this selection I recently rewatched "World of Geisha" by Kumashiro and after having watched many other ropo's, I don't get why it has been so highly regarded by the critics at the time of its release... quite good but not that great, especially if compared to other films in the genre...