Vintage Pulp | May 28 2012 |
In a big city like Tokyo you definitely need a map to find your way around.
We love this. It’s a poster for Nikkatsu’s 1969 sexploitation flick Yoru no saizensen: Tôkyô onna chizu, which starred Satoko Sato and her interesting leather outfit, and was released internationally as Secret Zone of Tokyo. But that isn’t a literal translation of the Japanese title. If you glance at the bottom of the poster, the first two figures, if you’re looking left to right, say “Tokyo.” The red shape with the heart in the middle is a nifty mash-up of the two figures that make up the word “women.” And the last two figures say “map” or possibly “atlas.” So it says, “Tokyo Women Map.” Which is something we really could have used at times in the past. Yoru no saizensen: Tôkyô onna chizu premiered in Japan today in 1969.