Vintage Pulp

November 22 2022

OVERWHELMING FORSA

She's small but she has enormous appetites.

What would ’70s erotic cinema be without Swedish movies? And more importantly, without Swedish actresses? Above is a Japanese poster for the softcore film Justine och Juliette, known in English as Justine and Juliette, or sometimes Swedish Minx, and it starred the small wonder known as Marie Forså, who pound for pound was probably the best performer to come out of Swedish sexploitation cinema. That’s what we think, anyway. We talked about the movie last year, so all we’re doing today is showing you this eye-catching piece of art. Oh, and the rare image of Forså below. Let’s not forget about that. We also have the rear of the poster. In addition, you can see a colorful Japanese promo for Forså’s movie Butterflies here, and a very, erm, interesting one for her movie Bibi here.

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Sex Files

April 4 2022

BRINGING IN THE TRASH

Sometimes you want your house to be a little dirty.

The thing about Japanese promos for U.S. adult films—and we’ve mentioned this before—is that they usually have rare images of the lead actresses. Such is the case with the above item, made for Trashy Lady, featuring x-rated legend Ginger Lynn alluringly wrapped in a silk or satin sheet. In Japan the movie was titled ジンジャー・リンの赤い下唇, which means, “Ginger Lynn’s red lips” or Ginger Lynn’s red lower lip.”

The plot is simple—Harry Reems, playing a big city crime kingpin, decides to make smalltown Ginger his girlfriend, but since she’s too innocent, he needs her to be retrained into the type of woman he prefers—a trashy lady. You know, of course, what sort of activities the makeover involves.

It’s cute when porn folks try to make a period movie, and this one, which is set during the Great Depression, comes complete with fancy costumes, a couple of nice sets, and even a high quality opening credit sequence. In the end it’s still sort of like low rent community theater with oral sex, but it’s all in good fun. As a side note, every website you look at says Reems plays real-life gangster Dutch Schultz, but guess what? We actually watch these flicks, and the character he plays is the fictional Dutch Seigel, not Dutch Schultz. Who cares, right? Well, we do. Originally released in 1985, Trashy Lady opened in Japan today in 1987.

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Vintage Pulp

June 16 2021

JUSTINE TIME

Forså puts her name on the Marquis.

Above you see a poster for the erotic comedy Justine och Juliette, also known as Swedish Minx, which opened in Sweden today in 1975. We usually focus on beautiful art, but there’s obviously nothing special about this particular promo. We watched the film anyway because one of its co-stars is Marie Forså, and you know how we feel about her. She’s credited here as Marie Lynn, a pseudonym (sometimes it was Maria Lynn) she used in Flossie and Molly, though we didn’t mention it when we talked about those movies.

Theoretically Justine och Juliette is based on the Marquis de Sade novels Justine, published in 1791, and Juliette, published in 1797. Forså and Anne Bie Warburg play sisters who take different paths trying to survive in the cruel world. Forså has principles, which lead to poverty, while Warburg will do anything for money and a flashy lifestyle. Forså, try as she might, can’t keep herself from being sucked into Warburg’s coterie of weirdoes, and pretty soon there’s a sex film that was secretly shot with Forså as the unwitting star.

Justine och Juliette is one of those erotic films that had hardcore footage inserted, but instead of jarring close-ups of anonymous stunt genitals meant to deceive you into thinking Forså did the deed (which she sometimes did, just not in this movie), you get actual porn performers in action. Among them are Harry Reems, the aforementioned Warburg, and Brigitte Maier. They give the movie a bit of extra spark, but overall it just doesn’t compare to the best ’70s sexploitation flicks. We’re not calling it a dud, but it’s not worth seeking out either, unless, like us, you’re fans of the divine Miss Forså.

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Vintage Pulp

July 12 2019

FLOAT LIKE A BUTTERFLY

Marie Forså gives a lofty performance in a down and dirty classic

Above is a Japanese poster for the Swedish film Butterflies, another sexploitation romp featuring blonde-on-blonde sex symbol Marie Forså. The movie also stars Harry Reems and Eric Edwards, two legit porno actors from back in the day, here getting a chance to do some mainstream work. The basic thrust, so to speak, of the plot involves a country girl who goes to the big city and has various sexual adventures with older and more experienced men. You know the drill.

As with other Forså films, there are explicit scenes, but in this case it’s actually her doing the deed. There are several quick uncut pans from face to nether regions in two of her bed sessions that leave no doubt. There’s confusion around this because the filmmakers wanted a gynecological version of the movie and shot jarring close-ups of thrusting genitalia. Those aren’t Forså’s. They were shot later to make the film extra explicit, and the uncut pans of Forså were dumped. We don’t understand it, but that’s what happened. So there are three slightly different versions of the movie out there—an r-rated one with no hard sex, a version with the revealing pans of Forså, and an x-rated version with a body double.

On a related note, even though the intercourse is real, that doesn’t mean the sexual ecstasy is, but Forså is a brilliant performer in this regard. You may even believe she’s having the best sex of her life. This is of course not the norm for softcore and porn actresses, whose fakery generally is obvious. But Forså is a force of nature. We don’t know if there’s a legally available version of the movie with the Forså pans. If there is, that’s the one to acquire. But either way, her innocent looks, combined with an uninhibited performance, make Butterflies a true blue classic. It premiered in Japan today in 1975.

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Sex Files

October 27 2016

ADULT ORIENTED

American sex stars make a big splash in Japan.

As promised earlier this month, below we have more adult film posters from Japan for U.S. based productions. We’re pretty proud of these because you simply won’t find them anywhere else, or if so certainly not in the quality you see here. And we have at least a hundred more.

Neon Nights, 1981, with Veronica Hart.

Fiona on Fire, 1978, with Amber Hunt.

Sex Asylum 4, 1993, with Christy Canyon.

Little Orphan Dusty, 1978, with Rhonda Jo Petty.

Co-Ed Fever, 1980, with Annette Haven.

Barbara Broadcast, 1977, with Annette Haven and Harry Reems.

Insatiable II, aka Insatiable Part 2, 1984, with Marilyn Chambers.

Breaking It, 1984, with Traci Lords.

High School Memories, 1980, with Annette Haven.

On White Satin, 1980, with unknown poster star. We were able to visually identify all the main performers in this film and none of them seem to be the person shown here. This is not unusual for a Japanese poster. Their makers occasionally used the most photogenic person rather than the top-billed performer, but in any case we don’t know who this is.

All American Girls in Heat II, 1983, with Shauna Grant.

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Vintage Pulp

August 16 2010

DEEP DISH

A lump in the Throat.

We’re back folks, and what a lovely trip it was—at least, the parts we remember. Above you see three Japanese posters, each advertising Deep Throat and Deep Throat Part 2, which we gather ran as a double bill in Japan sometime in the mid-1970s. Deep Throat and its sequel starred Linda Lovelace as a woman whose clitoris was in her throat, and the first installment was the first truly mainstream porn film.

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HISTORY REWIND

The headlines that mattered yesteryear.

October 4

1957—Sputnik Circles Earth

The Soviet Union launches the satellite Sputnik I, which becomes the first artificial object to orbit the Earth. It orbits for two months and provides valuable information about the density of the upper atmosphere. It also panics the United States into a space race that eventually culminates in the U.S. moon landing.

October 4

1970—Janis Joplin Overdoses

American blues singer Janis Joplin is found dead on the floor of her motel room in Los Angeles. The cause of death is determined to be an overdose of heroin, possibly combined with the effects of alcohol.

October 3

1908—Pravda Founded

The newspaper Pravda is founded by Leon Trotsky, Adolph Joffe, Matvey Skobelev and other Russian exiles living in Vienna. The name means “truth” and the paper serves as an official organ of the Central Committee of the Communist Party between 1912 and 1991.

October 3

1957—Ferlinghetti Wins Obscenity Case

An obscenity trial brought against Lawrence Ferlinghetti, owner of the counterculture City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco, reaches its conclusion when Judge Clayton Horn rules that Allen Ginsberg’s poetry collection Howl is not obscene.

October 3

1995—Simpson Acquitted

After a long trial watched by millions of people worldwide, former football star O.J. Simpson is acquitted of the murders of ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman. Simpson subsequently loses a civil suit and is ordered to pay millions in damages.

October 2

1919—Wilson Suffers Stroke

U.S. President Woodrow Wilson suffers a massive stroke, leaving him partially paralyzed. He is confined to bed for weeks, but eventually resumes his duties, though his participation is little more than perfunctory. Wilson remains disabled throughout the remainder of his term in office, and the rest of his life.

October 2

1968—Massacre in Mexico

Ten days before the opening of the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, a peaceful student demonstration ends in the Tlatelolco Massacre. 200 to 300 students are gunned down, and to this day there is no consensus about how or why the shooting began.