BUTTERFLIES ARE FREAKS

If you love somebody pin them to a corkboard.

You know by now that roman porno is a Japanese softcore film genre, and that the “roman” stands for “romantic.” So it’s fitting that the poster for the roman porno flick Seishojo: hitontasu no keiken has a romantic image. That isn’t usually the case, but this one, with the colors and flowers, is pretty.

The English title of this was One Summer Experience: Sexy Virgin, or sometimes Sex Virginity Hito: Natsu’s Experience, and what happens is a man named Nobuyuki who collects butterflies meets a girl named Ruri who thinks she’s the incarnation of a butterfly. Turns out she’s a mental patient, but nuts never looked as good as Terumi Azuma, so Nobuyuki has to be forgiven for violating the tenets of the hot/crazy matrix.

This one gets pretty weird. There’s a scene where Ruri experiences sexual pleasure from being stabbed with insect pins, and all we can say is, you know, it’s roman porno. The movie has immense importance, at least to us, because it was Azuma’s first lead role, and she gave the cinema world plenty of enjoyable material over the years.

Below you see a beautiful promo shot—reversed by the lithographer, which we know because in real life Azuma’s torso mole is actually on her left—and a nice alternate poster. Seishojo: hitontasu no keiken premiered today in 1976.

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