Otomo Sooya: ”Adult Cinema of Japan 1–4” (1969-1971)

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Otomo Sooya: 責めと残酷 ”Adult Cinema of Japan 1–4” (1969-1971)

A four volume collection of movie-stills. Heavily represented is the work of Edo-era cruelty by the director Ishii Teruo (some showing rope-work by Tsujimura Takashi), as well as pink movies starring Naomi Tani.

Publisher: 芳賀書店 (Haga Shoten)

See some earlier posts on the blog here: https://kinbakubooks.wordpress.com/2014/02/04/tsujimura-takashi-special-issue-of-sm-king-1973-and-ishii-teruo-movies/ https://kinbakubooks.wordpress.com/2014/02/11/naomi-tani-goodbye-naomi-images-of-the-queen-of-kinbaku-1979/

Tsujimura Takashi: Special issue of SM KING (1973), Ishii Teruo movies, and a documentary from 1971

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Tsujimura Takashi: Special issue of SM KING (1973) and Ishii Teruo movies

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This special issue of SM KING has the title ”The World of Tsujimura Takashi”. The issue represents one of the few larger collections of his work, otherwise spread out in magazines. According to Nawapedia, it is also the first photographic work by Sugiura Norio ever to be published. (See: http://www.nawapedia.com/index.php?title=Norio_Sugiura)

Nawapedia writes: ”It would not be an exaggeration to say that Takashi Tsujimura established modern Kinbaku Art (…) Tsujimura acted as a kinbakushi for virtually the entire run of Kitan Club magazine…” (http://nawapedia.com/index.php?title=Takashi_Tsujimura)

I find it very interesting that in the mid 1950s, he wrote a series of articles about the expression of the face of the kinbaku-model.

In addition, it seems, Akechi Denki met him and learned from him during his formative years. (http://tokyobound.com/blog/?p=114)

In one of the photos I have included below, Tsujimura is appearing publicly as an expert on bondage on the TV-show ”11 PM” in 1968. Around the same time, he was also responsible for the rope-bondage in a couple of large format dramatic movies by the director Teruo Ishii. The English text on the cover of this 5 dvd-box promises a ”world full of orgy, torture, tattoo, true crime… and massacre by samurai sword!” You will not be disappointed. The edition posted here has no English subtitles, but you can find these as well (I got mine here: http://japaneiga.free.fr/contact-info.html).

Master K writes in ”The Beauty of Kinbaku” (p. 61) that Tsujimura was the first ”magazine bakushi”, as he tied the model Kawabata Tanako in the Kitan Club, May/June issue 1952. This same issue according to Tsujimura himself, contains the first uses of the terms ”kinbaku” and ”kinbaku model” in a magazine.

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There is also a rare chance to see Tsujimura tie live for about 15 minutes in the historically very interesting 1971 Japanese documentary movie ”The World of Sexual Perversion” (セックスドキュメント 性倒錯の世界), now available on DVD (ASIN: B0058TI63Q). Here is the cover: Tsujimura dvd docu