Happy Monkey

Having as I do a fondness for cinematic oddities, a favorite weekend diversion of mine is to peruse my dusty library for things I haven’t seen before. Today’s venture came up with the following from Jasper Sharp: Behind the Pink Curtain: The Complete History of Japanese Sex Cinema (Godalming, UK: FAB Press, 2008). A production company called Kokuei, which started making films for the Japanese Ministry of Education, made two movies on a “girl Tarzan” theme called Valley of Lust (1963) and Cave of Lust (1965). According to Sharp, nothing survives of these movies except a handful of publicity stills. But what stills! For the pleasure of ErosBlog readers, I post my favorite from Cave of Lust, the actress Aki Ema, together with a monkey companion:

Some monkeys have all the luck.

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Nude Pearl Diver

The post about topless Japanese pearl diver women prompted a reader to rummage through his dead-tree books, resulting in this gem of an image:

The book he found it in (Eros In Hell: Sex, Blood, and Madness in Japanese Cinema) speaks of an entire genre of Japanese nude flicks based around this theme:

Glimpses of straightforward screen nudity were not uncommon even in the 1950s…. The trend was sneakily initiated by Shintoho Studios in the mid-’50s with a new genre, the “girl diver” movie. Girls were shown wet-bloused, then later topless, then later even naked as they dived for pearls in such films as Onna Shinjuo No Fukushu (Revenge Of The Pearl Queen) and Ama No Bakemono Yashiki (Haunted House Of Ama aka Girl Divers Of Spook Mansion). … More recent entries in the persistent “girl diver” sub-genre include Atsushi Fujiura’s Yobai Ama (Nasty diver, 1977) and Shikijo Ama (Lusty Diver, 1981).

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