SELF PORTRAIT OF A LADY

Beauty is skin deep, but depravity goes all the way through.

Today we’re emerging from our vintage cocoon to share the colorful poster you see above, which was made for the mid-1980s roman porno* movie Reijo niku-dorei, known in English as Young Flesh Slave. With a title like that you know it’s a roman porno flick from Nikkatsu Studios. It stars Rei Akasaka, and she plays a young painter whose engagement isn’t working out. She’s been putting off her intended husband for two years with various excuses, including that she needs her art to be recognized by critics. In our opinion, she should just ditch him, considering he tells her things like, “As a woman you need to abandon unnecessary self esteem.”

But her problem isn’t self estemm. It’s that she’s bored—except possibly when she lays eyes on the caretaker at her father’s mansion. He’s a presumptious and rapey little shit, but she grows to like the terrible way he treats her. Nikkatsu goes as far as it possibly can in telling this story without breaking Japanese censorship laws, showing semen eating, vaginal drainage after sex, virginal blood, ass-to-mouth oral sex, and various forms of rape—all without any frontal nudity. It’s truly incredible, and truly depraved. We take cinema seriously, but roman porno looks virtually devoid of social value. Reijo niku-dorei premiered today in 1985.

*For an explanation of roman porno look here.

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April 25

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.

April 25

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.

April 24

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.

April 23

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.

April 23

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.

April 22

1912—Pravda Is Founded

The newspaper Pravda, or “Truth”, known as the voice of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, begins publication in Saint Petersburg. It is one of the country’s leading newspapers until 1991, when it is closed down by decree of then-President Boris Yeltsin. A number of other Pravdas appear afterward, including an internet site and a tabloid.

April 22

1983—Hitler's Diaries Found

The German magazine Der Stern claims that Adolf Hitler’s diaries had been found in wreckage in East Germany. The magazine had paid 10 million German marks for the sixty small books, plus a volume about Rudolf Hess’s flight to the United Kingdom, covering the period from 1932 to 1945. But the diaries are subsequently revealed to be fakes written by Konrad Kujau, a notorious Stuttgart forger. Both he and Stern journalist Gerd Heidemann go to trial in 1985 and are each sentenced to 42 months in prison.