Japan’s adult cinema industry is, if nothing else, enterprising. But there’s a fine line between innovation and sheer stupidity, with Weekly Playboy (3/28) having little difficulty finding loads of the latter, which it promptly rewards with prizes.
Picking up the best director’s award by the skin of its teeth, literally, was "Hokei wo Nameru Onna Densetsu," a movie that gives a totally new meaning to the term "skin flick" as it features women who enjoy lapping up foreskins.
"We wanted to improve the social standing of foreskins," director Rei Kudo tells Weekly Playboy. "To have our love for skins recognized is truly a great honor. Thank you very much."
Dominating the awards was the movie’s lead actress Ann Namba, who picked up 11 prizes in the weekly’s stupidest adult movie awards.
Manzo Karita, a prominent director, was not surprised at Namba’s success.
"She’ll do absolutely anything," Karita tells Weekly Playboy."
Actually, though most makers managed to come up with some very good silly movies, there weren’t enough strong actresses or new programs to take the awards away from her.
The ‘Kigurumi’ series was a new genre that mixed absurdity with geek-type fetishes, but it was nowhere near a match for Ann and her domination of the digital media."
The "Kigurumi" series to which Karita refers has to go down as one of the more bizarre types of adult movies made. It’s common for a certain type of Japanese otaku, or geek, to dress up in a full body suit, or kigurumi, made to resemble a manga cartoon character. Usually, the kigurumi are innocent and make their appearances at cosplay, dress-up events. However, for the "Kigurumi" series of movies, an actress clad in a naked form of the full body cartoon character was subjected to a sequence of saucy and sordid scenes.
Other notable winners of the weekly’s worst awards included "Aichikyu F***," where the stars dressed up in costumes identical to those worn by the mascots at the enormously successful World Expo Japan hosted last year, while "Shishimai F***," features a dalliance between thespians taking part in a traditional lion dance.
"Radio Controlled Panchira" takes the cake for being the most brazen movie, as it panders to dismal types who get their kicks looking up women’s dresses, but gets its footage from a camera attached to the roof of a radio-controlled toy car that is maneuvered between the legs of unsuspecting women.
"There’s a rumor the next movie in the series could be made using a toy submarine," Weekly Playboy says. (By Ryann Connell)
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