The Non-Synapse Roman Porno Thread

[mjeon]

Takuma, thanks for the heads up!

[Takuma]

Website for the 2019 RP releases:
https://www.nikkatsu-romanporno.com/bddvd2019/

[Takuma]

I watched one of the films Happinet is going to put out on DVD later this year and, well, save your money.

Sex-Crime Coast: School of Piranha (肉体犯罪海岸 ピラニヤの群れ) (Japan, 1973) [VoD] - 1.5/5
Male and female delinquents dubbed as “Piranhas” (no, not the Toei guys) have sex on beach, take captives in a house, then have sex the house. Hitomi Kozue is the main bad girl getting jealous when shag partner Ryuji Nakamura gets intimate with rich girl Masumi Jun. Dull home invasion Roman Porno with a Sun Tribe flavor and a bit of gang content. Director Shogoro Nishimura merely slaps the genre premises together and proceeds to do nothing with them. Last reel action aside, it's embarrassingly unambitious for an early Roman Porno.













This is the recently added DMM HD stream. As you can see, the colors are all fucked up. Most of their recent Roman Porno HD upgrades and new additions have this same shit look based on the trailers. I always wondered if it was just the previews, but Sex-Crime Coast proves it's the entire film!

Now, the good and odd news is that this seems to be something DMM are doing by themselves rather than the master being fucked up. Their Crazed Fruit HD stream trailer has the exact same look.





But take a look at the same same trailer on Amazon Video, also for a newly added HD stream.





I haven't watched Amazon's film stream, but I have faith that it looks the same as the trailer, more or less.

[Ian Jane]

Looks like a few Blu-ray releases are coming later this year.

https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread...=271457&page=4

[Takuma]

One failed recording, one accidentally-destroyed-by-the-gf recording, and a two month wait for a re-broadcast later...

Circuit of Sorrow (哀愁のサーã‚ット) (1972)
Extremely interesting, if slightly ham-fisted 2nd follow-up to Tí´ru Murakawa's landmark Roman Porno Delicate Skillful Fingers (1972). Based on real life Toyota race driver and fashion model Sachio Furusawa (Tí´ru Minegishi) who tragically died on track in 1969 and pop singer Tomoko Ogawa (Kei Kiyama), the film depicts their brief romance in the shadow of media pressure. Like Delicate Skillful Fingers, the film is essentially a Nikkatsu youth film conceived under the Roman Porno reign. There are fast cars, a bunch of Sun Tribe youngsters who challenge the protagonist to a bike race, and absolutely shitloads of catchy pop music (enough that they released an LP). But the title oversells the film: there's little sorrow on the circuit as the protagonist is only behind the racing car wheel in the opening and closing scenes. There's potential for great melancholic poetry which comes thru occasionally (their departure from a seaside motel on a rainy day is soaked with movie magic), but the protagonist is superficially written and portrayed. Murakawa's touch likewise isn't as sharp and dynamic as in Skillful Fingers, even if he claims to have had the actors have real sex in front of the camera. The film nevertheless remains highly entertaining, extremely stylish and thematically fascinating, and is yet another example of Nikkatsu Roman Porno's incredible versatility.

Tí´ru Minegishi as Sachio Furusawa


Kei Kiyama as Tomoko Ogawa. The singer in the background is Seri Ishikawa who performs the actual songs sung by Kiyama's character.


The acting by the sun tribe youngsters is one of the weak links...


And the Razzie worthly lines spoken by Kiyama... "The sea is made of women's tears? What? Explain to me!" That's what you get when you script the film by yourself without Kumashiro (Delicate Fingers) I guess






One of my favourite moments in the film. Small scene, yet so beautiful.






The caps above are from the Toei Channel broadcasting. No BD/DVD/VHS/VOD/ANYTHING available, which really needs to change. I watched the film twice already.

Murakawa's last remaining RP, the impossible to see Melancholy Flesh Business: Sensuous Zone (1972), just became my most wanted film!

[mjeon]

Happinet just released its February 2019 titles. Is there any news on upcoming blu-ray and DVD releases for the rest of the year?

[Takuma]

Why is Toei Channel broadcasting Nikkatsu Roman Porno titles? Surely they can't have run out of films in their own library...

They started a few years ago... I believe they were just paying respects to Nikkatsu and providing viewers a bit of extra by starting a monthly Roman Porno slot where they broadcast films by directors who also worked for Toei. Next month is the first time they show something unique, though, that is stuff that is unavailable on dvd etc.

[Zaibatan]

Why is Toei Channel broadcasting Nikkatsu Roman Porno titles? Surely they can't have run out of films in their own library...

[Takuma]

Holy fucking Shiiit! Toei Channel is broadcasting Tooru Murakawa`s Love and Death at Fuji Speedway aka Circuit of Sorrow (1972) in December.

https://www.toeich.jp/program/1T0000012486/201812



I wasn`t the one who requested it. But whoever it was, I wanna hug him to death!

[Jason C]

Yes.
http://www.rockshockpop.com/forums/s...l=1#post107024

Thanks. Good stuff. I swear i searched but didn't find it. odd.

[Takuma]

I love Reiko Oshida ... the fact that her name appears in the roman porno catalogue still amazes me...

Jealous Game was one those Roman Porno daisaku films that were a bit different from the standard ones. I think all of the actors were mainstream actors. There were some other similar films like Negishi`s Crazed Fruit which likewise had a (mainly) mainstream cast.

[tetrapak]

Yes.
http://www.rockshockpop.com/forums/s...l=1#post107024

I love Reiko Oshida ... the fact that her name appears in the roman porno catalogue still amazes me...

[Takuma]

Have you written a review of Jealousy Game?

Yes.
http://www.rockshockpop.com/forums/s...l=1#post107024

[Jason C]

Now that I have seen over 300 Roman Porno films, I've updated my Top 30 list and turned it into a Top 80!

TOP 31-40:
Angel Guts: High School Co-ed (女高生　天使のはらわた) (Chusei Sone, 1978) *
Angel Guts: Red Vertigo (天使のはらわた　赤い眩暈) (Takashi Ishii, 1988) *
Captured Mother and Daughter (母娘監禁 牝) (Nobuyuki Saito, 1987)
Jealousy Game (ジェラシー・ゲーム) (Yoichi Higashi, 1982)
Lolita Vibrator Torture (ãƒãƒªãƒ¼ã‚¿ãƒã‚¤ãƒ–責め) (Hisayasu Sato, 1987)
Modern Prostitution: Lust Under Uniform (現代娼婦考　制服の下のうずき) (Chusei Sone, 1974)
My Sex Report: Intensities (わたしのＳＥＸ白書　絶頂度) (Chusei Sone, 1976)
Rape and Death of a Housewife (人妻集団暴行致æ»äº‹ä»¶) (Noboru Tanaka, 1978)
Shinjuku midare machi: ikumade matte (新宿乱れ街　いくまで待って) (Chusei Sone, 1977)
Star of David: Hunting Beautiful Girls (堕靡泥の星　美少女狩り) (Norifumi Suzuki, 1979)


* Because I'm lazy, this is actually Top 30 + Top 31-80. In my original Top 30 list I restricted the number of Angel Guts films to one for the sake of variety, hence High School Co-ed and Red Vertigowere excluded. They are listed here as no. 31 and 32, but objectively they should be higher, somewhere around no. 20.

edit: I just realized I have 32 movies in my Top 30

Have you written a review of Jealousy Game?

[tetrapak]

Seen it once and tried re-watching it once as well. I'm not calling it a "bad film", but it just doesn't do much for me. I'd like to like it more.



For me the Wong Kar Wai film of Roman Porno would be A Woman's Trail: Wet Path. There's a brief clip in one of the RP videos I did (2:05):

https://vimeo.com/186163704#t=125s

oh I see, nice clip !