A Sweet Erotic Trickle From Japan

For mine, these are elegant examples of erotica. Some are more explicit than others, but each suggests erotic potential untapped.

 

Incest-themed erotica from Japanese trades on the traditional image of a mother and turns it on its head.

I find this box cover (above) extremely powerful for its intense understatement.

 

Many of these images succeed in portraying an emotional state in addition to a primitive desire.

The traditional Japanese office lady is the subject of this erotic adventure. Perfect use of wardrobe in an urban setting completes the fantasy.

These are works of art.

An amazing concept here. I love how the bedside status of the woman on the right seems ambiguous.

 

Beautiful portrait of a sensual Japanese woman whose age is clearly an asset, not a handicap. 

Pornography and acknowledgment of the sexual impulse is not the exclusive domain of youth in Japan.

  

 

The mere context of this box cover (it is for a pornographic movie) takes the image of this traditional Japanese housewife -- a modern version -- and makes it a diamond of intense erotic suggestion.

The Japanese are masters at this.

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I'd like to thank an anonymous reader (you know who you are) for the Ruby heads-up.

From The Vault

This is Max Pecas's Je Suis Une Nymphomane, a '71 production.

It is certainly one of the oddest, most verbose ad mats for a sex pic I have ever seen.

The film itself is surprisingly well made and serious-minded (I guess that explains the Carole-signed ramble).

George Romero's classic paired with Jeff Lieberman's fascinating shocker.

Curious that Martin is referred to as Martin The Blood Lover(!)

Why is the X-rated Alice in Wonderland sharing the marquee with The Rocky Horror Picture Show?

Because both were released by 20th Century-Fox; the studio's version of Alice was cut, of course, to earn the softer rating.

The film, from the producer of Flesh Gordon, Bill Osco, went through the roof.

A bunch of Aussie women, imprisoned in a Tasmanian gulag, escape into the countryside and shun clothing.

Exceptionally odd movie with a strong feminist slant.

Much of it was improvised.

Also known as Blood Ruby, Curtis Harrington's atmospheric shocker was accompanied by Rene Cardona's Survive, a fact-based retelling of football team cannibalism in the Andes. The film was remade by Frank Marshall as Alive ('93).

I remember Survive getting great schoolboy reviews for its lurid scenes of flesh eating and base behavior.

A poster that creates no confusion about its subject matter.

The film is surprisingly interesting and featured more than one killer.

The director, Jack Sholder, went on to make the brilliant The Hidden.