JAVs a Notch Above

[jugulear]

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Do you know of JAVs that are A Notch Above in execution? Ones with extra punch, a dab more brilliance? The kind that Stand Out in a Crowd, as it were? Well, why have you been keeping them to yourself, for heaven's sake? Hopefully, you will now enlighten the rest of us.

Something I've griped about, and I've seen others echo the same, is when a JAV series follows the formula with an exactitude that makes you question the filmmakers' aptitude. Don't they have the imagination to try new tricks? See, that's the kind of an example which may qualify as a contender, here; a JAV that makes the effort to go beyond the usual same-old.

Let me give you an example. Are you familiar with the ATTACKERS series? Great production values, usually, but sometimes I get the feeling one ATTACKERS movie can run right into the other; it's like you can substitute one for another, and no one will know the difference.

A few months ago, I wrote what follows:

While I've got you, I'd like to add a thought that applies to the damsel-in-distress movies. I've noticed a new twist to some of the movies of this mold (especially refreshing, because one weak point about JAV is that they usually follow the exact same formula with a series idea... sometimes scene-by-scene. It's very frustrating when they rarely add any kind of a twist, as if they are convinced what they have come up with is so perfect). It's this:

Once the breakthrough has been made with the victim, we now sometimes get a series of very brief vignettes, showing the villain having sex with the victim in different settings... giving the idea that the victim has been hopelessly ensnared even deeper. Whomever came up with that idea got to the heart of the matter, and I wish they would have come up with it sooner. (Naturally, this is also one idea now being used over and over, in faithful formula repetition, but it happens to be one I hope they will keep using.)

With that last line, I didn't mean to give the idea that I've been seeing this wonderful approach all over the place. I've only been seeing it here and there.

Well, I just saw the same schtick again in:

Tax Accountant Who Got Banged By a Shop Owner [RBD-612], with Sarina Takeuchi



I thought the movie was above average, and beautifully cast with the stylish star. Then I started thinking about the movie that inspired my words that I've quoted above, Obedient Careerwoman [RBD-679], with Rin Ogawa. There was a very similar style... even the villain, played by Scraggly, pictured above, was the same.)

I then got the idea... could both movies have been directed by the same artist? (I may be slow on the uptake, but eventually, I get there.) Indeed they were.

The director's name is Tkuo Otani (translated from 大谷卓生 as Takuo Otani), and it looks like he got his start in 2008.

I see he has done a lot of "SPRD" movies in the beginning of his career, but I'm interested in his ATTACKERS ones, in force since 2013. If you would like to look into similar works, I've provided a list below. (And the reason why it may be all the way down below is because this is the first time I've tried to create a table in BB code, and for some reason it decided to go way down there.)

I like the different settings they have thought up, too; for example, there is one with a "Cosmetics Advisor" with Serina Hayakawa [RBD-721], and one with an "Accountant" with Ichika Kanhata [RBD-717]... as well as one for a "Pool Hustler" with Kaori [SHKD-623]. (And what about "Wife of a Movie Director Who Lost His Distributors" [RBD-623], with Kaho Kasumi? Have you ever heard of that setting as a premise?) Yep, it seems to me that these movies by Mr. Otani have attempted to travel the extra mile.

(By the way, I ran into an interesting site called "movie-ga.com" while seeing what was out there, regarding this director. Here's the English translation of a page where a good many of his movies are reviewed. The review for the Tax Accountant one [RBD-612] that caught my attention states that it was "the best" "among the works that I saw in 2014.")

2013	2014	2015
SPRD-628	SPRD-705	SHKD-589
SPRD-635	ATID-240	RBD-663
SSPD-096	SPRD-712	RBD-679
SPRD-642	RBD-560	SHKD-614
RBD-471	RBD-568	SHKD-623
SPRD-647	SPRD-716	RBD-700
RBD-480	RBD-577	RBD-707
SPRD-652	RBD-587	SHKD-639
RBD-484	RBD-597	RBD-717
RBD-486	RBD-612	SHKD-646
SPRD-659	SHKD-560	RBD-721
RBD-496	RBD-620	SHKD-652
SPRD-665	RBD-623	RBD-740
SPRD-672	RBD-633	0
RBD-506	9	0
SPRD-678	9	0
RBD-521	9	0
RBD-527	9	0
SPRD-685	9	0
SPRD-692	9	0
SPRD-698	9	0

Director Tkuo Otani's later output.
(Sorry this table had a mind of its own,
and decided to plant itself down here.)

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[Restrepo]

I'll think about some "above and beyond" titles (one almost certainly being the Azumi Mizoshima stepfather title we've already discussed ), but in the meantime:

Funny you mention the "sexual montage" as a plus, as I'd recently been frustrated by just the same.

Without question, in general, it'd be a useful device. Personally prefer the consensual scenes to the harsher "getting her into it" scenes of gradual domination stories, and at times find myself skipping past the earlier stages unless they're particularly well done.

That being said, recently caught a title featuring the inestimable Matsumoto Mei (SHKD-653), in which a lecherous repairman (or some such nonsense) has his way with her, gradually 'winning her over'.

And so the brief scene(s) begin for the montage - all for it! Alas. The scene skipped through was a shower scene, which accentuated Ms. Mei in all the right ways.

It genuinely appeared it would have been the entire 'film's' best scene, and it was tossed asunder. For shame.

Evidence for my case:


This is not the scene to make a brief montage. Sigh.



Putting her at this angle - the image does not do justice, and all should see for themselves, the water flowing off her sizable bust. Just sayin'. Trust, it's hot.



For SHAME, I tell you. This might have ranked among my favorite of her individual scenes. Cruelly cut short in the name of "plot" progress.

Anyway, not to derail your thread, just an example of a negative outcome of your example.

 

[jugulear]

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Yeah! What could be more disappointing than having a scene with great potential to get short? (Thanks, R.R. ... you did a beautiful job of expressing yourself.)

The way to look at this, though, is that if not for the "sexual montage," the shower scene may have never been shot at all.

If one's preference is consensual sex, as Restrepo mentioned, then the "sexual montage" won't serve much of a purpose (unless the variety of different sex scenes is meant to portray a deeper falling-in-love type of situation). Yet if the thrust is on gradual domination, then the "sexual montage" becomes a fantastic tool, giving us the idea that the victim is getting ever more boxed into a corner.

By the way, here is a great review of SHKD-653, by Member Kessari at the JAV with Impregnation/Insemination Theme thread; the villain of the story ("Air-Con Man," as Kessari has pegged him) succeeds in getting his claws into our heroine to such an extent... well, you can probably predict her fate from the thread's title. Look at how beautifully the lead actress, Mei Matsumoto, displays her acceptance of her tormentor, by the movie's end:


You can pick up a low-rent copy of this movie for 396 MB

I don't pay attention to JAV directors, and this was the first time I've done so... because I was so impressed with the way Tkuo Otani handled these types of stories. I was sure this director was not the only one who has utilized the "sexual montage," but it's not like I made a study of who did what. Now that Restrepo pointed out SHKD-653, I've now become aware of how similar this movie was to the ones Tkuo Otani has handled... only the director is somebody else: Taro Hankyu (はんきゅう太郎).

So someone came up with this idea, and others are copying it. (Which is a good thing.) I thought Tkuo Otani was the one who broke the mold in regards to the "sexual montage," but now... who knows who the originator was. I'm tempted to look deeper into the works of this new fellow.

(Okay, I started looking. Taro Hankyu is a relative newcomer -- unless he adopted a new alias, in JAV actress fashion -- having begun only last year; so the odds are he was not the mastermind of this technique, but a copycat. A list of his movies to date is below, if you are interested, and I'm definitely not going to create a BB code table again.)

ADN-055
ADN-061
SHKD-612
IPZ-573
ADN-063
ADN-068
ADN-069
RBD-704
ADN-072
ADN-074
ADN-081
ADN-082
SHKD-653
ADN-088



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[Zen10101]

I'll think about some "above and beyond" titles (one almost certainly being the Azumi Mizoshima stepfather title we've already discussed ), but in the meantime:

Funny you mention the "sexual montage" as a plus, as I'd recently been frustrated by just the same.

Without question, in general, it'd be a useful device. Personally prefer the consensual scenes to the harsher "getting her into it" scenes of gradual domination stories, and at times find myself skipping past the earlier stages unless they're particularly well done.

That being said, recently caught a title featuring the inestimable Matsumoto Mei (SHKD-653), in which a lecherous repairman (or some such nonsense) has his way with her, gradually 'winning her over'.

And so the brief scene(s) begin for the montage - all for it! Alas. The scene skipped through was a shower scene, which accentuated Ms. Mei in all the right ways.

It genuinely appeared it would have been the entire 'film's' best scene, and it was tossed asunder. For shame.

Evidence for my case:

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This is not the scene to make a brief montage. Sigh.

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Putting her at this angle - the image does not do justice, and all should see for themselves, the water flowing off her sizable bust. Just sayin'. Trust, it's hot.

View attachment 589250

For SHAME, I tell you. This might have ranked among my favorite of her individual scenes. Cruelly cut short in the name of "plot" progress.

Anyway, not to derail your thread, just an example of a negative outcome of your example.

Oh yes, the steamy shower montages! They're always so fucking good but sufferingly short! Here's SHKD-612 And Being Fucked In Front Of Her Husband's Eyes - And Desired Unexpected Visitor starring Natsume Iroha from the same director as mentioned by Jug.

I loved everything about them. The lighting, the steam, the intimacy, the way the water bounces off her back...I don't think there's a better way to accentuate the female body. I also liked the idea that she was doing something lewd and nasty when she's supposed to be in a moment of cleansing...it's pretty poetic. I've seen ADN-063 and it was tremendous as well. Thanks for the posts guys, I've been out of ideas lately when it comes to actresses and genres, gonna follow a director instead.

There are a number of titles from Attackers which adopts the same style of lighting, but from what I can see few do it as good as Taro Hankyu. Some others overdo it and the shadows become so thick that they obscure the action.

 

[barba]

i don’t know why i find it so hard to make recommendations. thread after thread asks in various indirect ways, “give me something good to watch”. i then reflect on an endless parade of tits and ass, and most often come up empty. or if i think of something good, i immediately disqualify it with a “yeah, but everybody knows that one”. but today i’ll take a chance. i like multi-taskers. it’s not enough that some chick sucks off 50 guys while taking it up the ass. in my book, she ought to do all that and cook dinner at the same time. or clean the house. or find the higgs boson. (i have this thing about marie curie bent over a microscope, taking load after load of… sorry, i forgot, no western porn allowed at A-O). that’s why i like chaco in sddm-638, idol semen volume 11, from soft on demand:


chaco sings! and fucks!! and (as anyone familiar with the idol semen series knows) receives bukkake!!! and although she does these things separately in the first half of her video (plain old notches), she later culminates with a long scene in which she does all that at the very same time (notch above!)… on stage before a live audience (way up above!!). and you too can share the experience at the following (free but slow) link:

http://japanese-bukkake.net/sddm-638-idol-semen-11/#more-1415

chaco made about two dozen javs around ten years ago. maybe she was frustrated musician; for music appears to be a recurring theme in her vids. this is the only one i’ve seen. but i’d single her out as a first class multi-tasker. (hey, it’s hard to sing with a dick in your ass… try it sometime.) it would have been nice to see her attempting to sing with one in her mouth. but i guess you can’t have everything. still, notch above.

 

[Restrepo]

@jugulear

a brief reassessment of my own statement: I suppose consensual was the wrong word - in terms of the gradual domination, I just prefer the latter scenes where the woman is into it (or dominated, I suppose). I was referring to this as consensual, which I suppose might not be quite fair? Ha. In any case, I quite enjoy the lecherous and/or ugly guy dominating the hapless gorgeous woman, I just tend to (with exceptions, of course) prefer the later "chapters" to the borderline r***-esque beginnings where she's fighting the guy. At least for me, her looking horrified and fighting the whole time isn't particularly hot. (Though it has been in a few instances, who knows what creates these exceptions, I think probably the woman's appearance or performance)

Apologies for the wall of text, no fun images fit the blathering.

Edit: HA failed to realize SHKD-653 was the video I myself had posted from when you shared the link, shows you how much I recall and pay attention to ID's. Is this "Air Con-Man" a common factor? Felt like I'd seen him but couldn't recall what from.

 

[kessari]

@jugulear

a brief reassessment of my own statement: I suppose consensual was the wrong word - in terms of the gradual domination, I just prefer the latter scenes where the woman is into it (or dominated, I suppose). I was referring to this as consensual, which I suppose might not be quite fair? Ha. In any case, I quite enjoy the lecherous and/or ugly guy dominating the hapless gorgeous woman, I just tend to (with exceptions, of course) prefer the later "chapters" to the borderline r***-esque beginnings where she's fighting the guy. At least for me, her looking horrified and fighting the whole time isn't particularly hot. (Though it has been in a few instances, who knows what creates these exceptions, I think probably the woman's appearance or performance)

Apologies for the wall of text, no fun images fit the blathering.

Edit: HA failed to realize SHKD-653 was the video I myself had posted from when you shared the link, shows you how much I recall and pay attention to ID's. Is this "Air Con-Man" a common factor? Felt like I'd seen him but couldn't recall what from.

I don't really exactly like too much squealing too and too much over-struggle , but flat out acting kinda turn me off too.
E.g

in SHKD 653 when aircon man was outside the window in a threatening silhouette,

(just looking at her , make the beast in me emerge too!!! howwwwwll)

Mei Matsumoto found a pillow and really try to cower. It beats high pitch squealing handdown and 7 out of 10 actresses will just do the classic "both hands clutch the chest" action and give a =X face. I believed these actions are all actresses improvised , and not director's requirements. For me its theses minor details that makes the scenes "hot" like restrepo said , rather than high pitch squealing and massive body flailing and struggling. To me, the actress make that movie (which is standard same home invasion movie) into a top notch movie just by herself.

hehe btw Air-con man was coined by me in a review for SHKD 653 and jug use it for reference in shkd-653 too for easy reference to him in the review and in no way because he is really an aircon man type.


He is really an aircon man in SHKD-653. Air Con man repairs aircon by just wiping , serious!! his skills are that good ...

Unfortunately he doesn't stick to what he does best , other than fixing the aircon just 1 time , the rest of the time he is "fixing" Mei Matsumoto

I have no name for this white hair guy yet still waiting for jug to name him hehe , but he seem to be a recent addition to attackers , so u guys might see him in a wide range of roles other than handyman

In ADN-072 he played a bus molester

and in RBD-684 he was a boss type villian

(That lecherous smile , its so wrong that it feel so right in this pic hehehe)


And quoting on Jug's take in attacker movie
"(Great production values, usually, but sometimes I get the feeling one ATTACKERS movie can run right into the other; it's like you can substitute one for another, and no one will know the difference.)"

Sad to say its quite true , and "very" , home invasion movie are always playing catching in the house and ending the catch on a sofa , following a routine segment of blowjob and brief shower scene and dam finale.
And the ending omg its always a red bed. I wonder is there a reason to always use the red bed? I have lost count of how many ending that end in a red bed (tongue twister!!)

Yep its this red bed ( u seen it somewhere?)

And I used to like the promising label RIT school girls attackers series, but the same thing happen to that label , but now i just skip thru whenever a new vid come out with no interest. The same old story and setting used on different actresses.
Tbh we can't really blame them (actress and director) , I attribute this to AV fatigue , maybe the hard requirements of how labels they have to produce a month simply drain their brain juice and they just copy and paste.

And once in a while we have ADN-072 as above where we have a non standard story. Its about a housewife that actually like nature drawing and took a bus to wildlife and got prey upon by a bus molester.
U finally got some new ingredients , bus , wildlife and artistic wife. New mix!! But imo totally let down by Misuzu Tachibana. To be fair , I got a personal preference for her type of looks. But her acting portrayal was so flat that a new mix idea that could good fall completely flat.

This movie would certain qualify as a notch above others in attackers for its new idea mix, however, let down by the flat performance of actress. Unlike Mei Matsumoto who act as if each AV the only AV she gonna do , I was always given the impression when I watch flat acting actress that they are just also AV fatigue, "why bother? I going to do the same next month and the next after" Worse.. sometimes when they close they eyes and give a x face , I think i can feel what they thinking "what I gonna eat for dinner?"

 

[jugulear]

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Hey! I just came across the above post... great work, Kessari.

Coincidentally, days afterwards I took the first step toward trying to get to the bottom of "Air Con Man" in the Good, Bad, Ugly and Tubby thread, and gave him his nickname of Grey Woof. Thanks to Electromog, his name got translated to Toshiki Saeyama ( 冴山トシキ ).

By the way...

I have just put up a very lengthy post in Stream DOWNLOADS, highlighting the later movies of Director Tkuo Otani, the subject of my first post, above. You may now be able to pick up some titles you are more interested in, with ease.



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