We love this. It’s a poster for Nikkatsu’s 1971 sexploitation flick Yoru no saizensen: Tôkyô onna chizu, which starred Satoko Sato and her interesting leather outfit, and was released internationally as Secret Zone of Tokyo. But that isn’t a literal translation of the Japanese title. If you glance at the bottom of the poster, the first two figures, if you’re looking left to right, say “Tokyo.” The red shape with the heart in the middle is a nifty mash-up of the two figures that make up the word “women.” And the last two figures say “map” or possibly “atlas.” Of course, in Japan reading is done right to left, but whichever direction you go, it says “Tokyo Women Map.” Which is something that we really could have used at times in the past. 

So, here’s another of those pinku promos we’ve been saving up. This one features Japanese actress and pop singer Meg Flower in an unusual pelvis forward pose that hints at provocation even as she tastefully covers her, um, flower. Well, tasteful is in the eye of the beholder. We think this kind of almost full frontal shot is inherently tasteful, but the Pulp Intl. girlfriends do not. Or at least, they don’t until we remind them that the internet is rife with people sticking all kinds of objects into all kinds of orifices, often with violent undertones, which means this forty-one-year-old image is strictly PG-13. But it’s a debate we suspect we’ll continue to have. And you better hope we win, because we have lots more of these we won’t get to post if we lose.

Here’s an alternate version of a poster we shared a while ago. It’s for Reiko Ike’s seminal pinku Yasagure anego den: sôkatsu rinchi, aka Female Yakuza Tale. Haven’t seen the movie? It isn’t for everyone, that’s for sure. We tell you a bit about it here. Yasagure anego den premiered in Japan today in 1973. 

Above, an ultra rare promo poster of pinku star Miki Sugimoto handling her business in a wheat field, circa 1973. We’ve had this one laying around for more than three years and finally shared it today for no real reason at all save that we have so many other posters of this exact type that it’s probably time to either hide them away for good, or just be brazen and start uploading them. Lucky you, we chose option two. 

Posters for Miki Sugimoto’s 1973 pinku flick Sukeban–Kankain Dasso, aka Girl Boss: Escape from Reform School abound online, but Toei Studios routinely had more multiple versions of their promos and, as far as we can tell, this particular door length sheet has not appeared before. At least, not uncensored. Sugimoto starred in the movie when she was a pinku icon, yet today it is obscure. It has no IMDB entry at all, and has only a filmography listing on both English and Japanese Wikipedia. We saw the movie several years ago and can’t remember it well enough to give a real summary, but the title tells the story. Besides, if you know anything about pinku, then you already know what happens. Sukeban–Kankain Dasso premiered in Japan today in 1973. 

Etsuko Hara starred in many pinku and roman porno films between 1974 and 1981 (again, none of this was actual pornography, but rather, kinky, r-rated erotica), and here appears on a poster as the cat-suited character 006, from her 1978 romp Number 006 Is the Number of Sex. With a costume like that, the film has to be a winner, but we haven’t seen it. At least we have the poster. After a thorough search of the internet, we're sure this is the first time it's ever appeared online. Now, please, somebody rip the film and send us a link. 

This colorful poster for Masaru Konuma’s sexual drama Nureta tsubo, aka Wet Vase, aka Wet Tattooed Vagina, depicts star Naomi Tani in a tableau taken directly from the movie. In the scene, Tani becomes sexually aroused by watching a man perform oral sex on a mannequin. Tani is ashamed and embarrassed at first, but the guy just keeps at it until she basically collapses in an overstimulated heap. It’s really a beautifully shot scene that by itself is worth the price of renting the flick, in our opinion. Nureta tsubo is part of Nikkatsu’s roman porno stable, but it’s an atypical example—at least, it seems so to us. There are fewer of the extravagances one might expect from a film starring Japan’s Queen of S&M. But that doesn’t mean it’s conservative—on the contrary, it’s plenty kinky. We mentioned that mannequin licking thing, right? See for yourself. We’ve posted some screen grabs from that amazing scene below. Nureta tsubo opened in Japan this month in 1976.