Showing posts with label josei. Show all posts
Showing posts with label josei. Show all posts

Friday, August 17, 2012

Helter Skelter 2012 Movie Trailer


After a five year hiatus, Sawajiri Erika is now making a dramatic comeback playing Ririko in Helter Skelter 2012, a movie currently making considerable waves in Japan by way of Sawajiri's supposedly explicit nude scenes (North American Audiences will no doubt find it mild rather than risque). The Chinese subbed youtube trailer as follows:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMONSQPp3JE




Saturday, April 14, 2012

Bitter Sugar (2011) - Want a taste of josei drama, anyone?


I've just finished all ten episodes of this spectacular midnight Japanese drama marathon-style, and already I have to write about it now!

Thursday, April 12, 2012

Helter Skelter (manga) – Glamour in Decay

“Her beauty is a montage of images. In other words, the manifestation of our very own desires!!” -- Attorney Asada on Ririko, Japan’s top beauty-icon, and secret V.I.P. of a beauty clinic currently coming under investigation for offering unethical treatments.



Come watch Japanese quasi celeb Ririko model for magazines, act in major movies, put out professionally-produced CDs, and seduce wealthy men, all thanks to her flawless physical beauty. But when said beauty is entirely the results of unsafe cosmetic procedures and starvation diet, just how long could it last? To what heights will her superficial appearance take her in this superficial world forever enthralled by superficial beauty? And, when said beauty is to inevitably rot away from her treatments’ horrific after effects, just how hard will she fall?