{"id":5395,"date":"2012-08-09T14:25:32","date_gmt":"2012-08-09T18:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=5395"},"modified":"2012-08-21T12:41:21","modified_gmt":"2012-08-21T16:41:21","slug":"dvd-zoom-up-the-beaver-book-girl-zumu-appu-biniru-bon-no-onna-1981","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=5395","title":{"rendered":"DVD: Zoom Up: The Beaver Book Girl \/ Z\u00fbmu appu: Bin\u00eeru-bon no onna (1981)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"<\/a>Film: Good \/ DVD Transfer: Excellent\/ DVD Extras: Standard<\/p>\n

Label: Impulse Pictures \/ Synapse\/ Region: 1 (NTSC) \/\u00a0Released: July 10, 2012<\/p>\n

Genre: Japanese Pink \/ Adult<\/p>\n

Synopsis: A mysterious woman seems all too willing to pose and partake in a panty fetish photographer’s latest series of glossy photo spreads. What in tarnation is she up to?<\/p>\n

Special Features: 4-page colour booklet with liner notes by Jasper Sharp.<\/p>\n

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Working from a script by Chiho Katsura (Zoom In: Sex Apartments<\/a><\/strong> [M<\/a>]), Takashi Kanno\u2019s directorial debut after years as a second unit director on similar pink films is a pseudo erotic thriller in which the sins of the past return in the form of sublime revenge \u2013 or so it seems in what\u2019s a ostensibly a rape revenge drama with an about-face finale.<\/p>\n

The pre-credit teaser deals with the rape (shot fast, but still ugly) and jumps ahead to the present day where a mysterious woman volunteers to become a photographer\u2019s ideal subject as the assignments move from softcore to S&M-based poses. Beaver<\/strong> is a bit of everything: suspense, porn satire, softcore porn, frat boy comedy, panty adulation, and a specific fixation on free-style micturating \u2013 the bigger and more dynamic the urine spray, the better for the still camera.<\/p>\n

The funniest bits are the moments of, well, procedure, in which the sultry femme fatale, like the younger model, consumes diuretic drinks by the bottle with utter boredom before unleashing a reservoir of ginger spray so massive you can\u2019t help laughing at the photographer\u2019s futile attempt to capture his money shot in just a few hastily timed stills.<\/p>\n

Beaver<\/strong> never really develops into anything \u2013 the mystery turns into repetitive motifs and ongoing character ennui, whereas the final revelation is less of a shock, and more of a necessary plot event to simply finish the film within its compact 64 mins., although the final image is appropriate for the film\u2019s celebration of urolagnia<\/a>: once the revenge aspect\u2019s been handled, what\u2019s left is closure for the two adversaries, and that\u2019s accomplished in a 24 hour fuck-a-thon until the photographer finally succumbs to his mistress\u2019s power, and both accept each other\u2019s golden offering.<\/p>\n

As with most entries within Impulse Pictures \u2018 Nikkatsu Roman Porno series, Beaver<\/strong> (Vol. 4 if you\u2019re counting) is impeccably shot in \u2018scope, perhaps out of rigueur, or some unsubtle reverence for human apple juice, and the transfer is made from a pristine source print. Author Jasper Sharp (The Historical Dictionary of Japanese Cinema<\/strong>) provides wry, literate liner notes about the Roman Porno genre which studio Nikkatsu skewed to extremes in order to distinguish themselves from rival cinema fodder. (Strangely, he retains all details of the film\u2019s water fixation from his compact genre chronology, which is surprising, given the film abounds<\/em> in imagery and objects tied to drinking, retention, voiding, and personal relief.)<\/p>\n

Kanno\u2019s other solo directorial venture is Mazohisuto<\/strong> (1985), after which he apparently retired from naughty films, of which he was involved with 22 within a 7 year period.<\/p>\n

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