Mirror mirror in my hand, who's the raunchiest in the land?
And what the hell, let's double up on pinku films we can't find. The bright poster above was made to promote Gion nemonogatari: Kyô musume no shoya, which we doubt ever had an English release, but if it had might have been known as something like Gion Sleeping Story: Musume's Wedding Night. Gion is a geisha district in Kyoto, and there's a geisha on the poster, so we're guessing this one is about geishas. Sex and perversion with geishas, since it's a pinku film. Call it a highly educated guess. It premiered in Japan today in 1972.
Your homework was never quite like this. If you’ve been visiting Pulp Intl. regularly, you know we feature promo art from Japanese pinku films. The above poster is for Onna kyôshi, aka School Mistress, aka Woman Teacher, starring Eiko Nagashima. Onna kyôshi falls into a pinku category known as roman porno. The term has nothing to do with ancient Rome—it’s actually just a mash-up of “romantic” and “pornography.” The main difference with roman porno is that it was the creation of Japan’s oldest movie studio Nikkatsu, and the films produced had higher budgets and more sexually violent content than pinku productions from studios like World Eiga, Nihon Cinema, and Toei Company. However roman porno isn’t anything like American-style porn. Due to Japanese censorship laws sexual action is depicted using clever techniques such as interposing vases of flowers and other phallic objects between the viewer and the action. In fact, many film experts believe circumventing the censors is what gave roman porno films their defining characteristic: they shock, but show little. We have about a hundred more of these posters, few of which, to our knowledge, have ever been seen on the Internet. We’ll be sharing them in the future. Below we're also sharing a fun shot of Eiko Nagashima. Bet you never had a teacher like her. Onna kyôshi opened in Japan today in 1977.
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The headlines that mattered yesteryear.
1939—Batman Debuts
In Detective Comics #27, DC Comics publishes its second major superhero, Batman, who becomes one of the most popular comic book characters of all time, and then a popular camp television series starring Adam West, and lastly a multi-million dollar movie franchise starring Michael Keaton, then George Clooney, and finally Christian Bale. 1953—Crick and Watson Publish DNA Results
British scientists James D Watson and Francis Crick publish an article detailing their discovery of the existence and structure of deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA, in Nature magazine. Their findings answer one of the oldest and most fundamental questions of biology, that of how living things reproduce themselves. 1967—First Space Program Casualty Occurs
Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov dies in Soyuz 1 when, during re-entry into Earth's atmosphere after more than ten successful orbits, the capsule's main parachute fails to deploy properly, and the backup chute becomes entangled in the first. The capsule's descent is slowed, but it still hits the ground at about 90 mph, at which point it bursts into flames. Komarov is the first human to die during a space mission. 1986—Otto Preminger Dies
Austro–Hungarian film director Otto Preminger, who directed such eternal classics as Laura, Anatomy of a Murder, Carmen Jones, The Man with the Golden Arm, and Stalag 17, and for his efforts earned a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame, dies in New York City, aged 80, from cancer and Alzheimer's disease. 1998—James Earl Ray Dies
The convicted assassin of American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., petty criminal James Earl Ray, dies in prison of hepatitis aged 70, protesting his innocence as he had for decades. Members of the King family who supported Ray's fight to clear his name believed the U.S. Government had been involved in Dr. King's killing, but with Ray's death such questions became moot.
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