![DEW IT RIGHT](/images/headline/6515.png) Flower care instructions: give plenty of light, keep warm, water daily. ![](/images/postimg/how_do_you_dew.jpg)
It's been a few years since we last saw Japanese pinku actress Meg Flower, but we're revisiting her today because, like many female action stars of her era, she has astounding promo photos. Add this one to the list, as we continue to swim against the tide of new Puritanism by sharing beautiful nudes. As we've mentioned before, sex is the motivational drive for protagonists from the earliest pulp literature up to and through every generation of crime, noir, and action films. Pinku movies, particularly those from Toei Company's pinky violence cycle, were the apotheosis of Japanese action cinema and tore the veil from what had previously only been hinted at. Photographed by Kenji Nagatomo, this shot was published in a couple of places, but it originated as a foldout inside Flower's 1971 album Sasayaki Tameiki Modae, aka Whisper Sigh Mood. Indeed. There's a song on it called, “Last Dance to Me,” but you can be sure this isn't our last dance with Meg. To see more images of her click here and here.
![WATER BLOSSOM](/images/headline/3530.png) October showers bring Meg Flowers. ![](/images/postimg/water_blossom.jpg)
Above, an image of Japanese actress Meg Flower, aka Meg Flowers, which we're posting because today is her birthday, and that's all the excuse we need. She was born in 1951, and this shot of her in some sort of high-tech shower was made around 1971.
![THE AMAZING GINZA BLADE](/images/headline/1974.png) Slices a tomato so thin you can almost see through it! But wait! There’s more! It also works great on Yakuza! ![](/images/postimg/the_amazing_ginza_blade_01.jpg)
It’s been a while since we had any Meiko Kaji on the site, so today we have four posters—two normal sized and two panel length—for 1971’s Ginchô wataridori, aka Wandering Ginza Butterfly, and 1972’s Ginchô nagaremono mesuneko bakuchi, aka Wandering Ginza: She-Cat Gambler. Haven’t seen them? Well, in our opinion, part two is vastly better than the first installment, but neither is up to the standard of Lady Snowblood. Still though, there are Yakuza and she kills them. What more could you want? You also get Meg Flower in part one, and Sonny Chiba in part two—both good additions. Kaji is still going strong in show business, by the way, having appeared in nine episodes of the Japanese television series Kekkon Shinai in 2012. We have some extremely rare posters of hers we’ll get to shortly.
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![HOTHOUSE FLOWER](/images/headline/1823.png) Meg at the moment of blooming. ![](/images/postimg/hothouse_flower_02.jpg)
So, here’s another of those pinku promos we’ve been saving up. This one features Japanese actress and pop singer Meg Flower in an unusual pose that hints at provocation even as she tastefully covers her, um, flower. We'll have plenty more Miss Meg down the line.
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The headlines that mattered yesteryear.
2003—Hope Dies
Film legend Bob Hope dies of pneumonia two months after celebrating his 100th birthday. 1945—Churchill Given the Sack
In spite of admiring Winston Churchill as a great wartime leader, Britons elect
Clement Attlee the nation's new prime minister in a sweeping victory for the Labour Party over the Conservatives. 1952—Evita Peron Dies
Eva Duarte de Peron, aka Evita, wife of the president of the Argentine Republic, dies from cancer at age 33. Evita had brought the working classes into a position of political power never witnessed before, but was hated by the nation's powerful military class. She is lain to rest in Milan, Italy in a secret grave under a nun's name, but is eventually returned to Argentina for reburial beside her husband in 1974. 1943—Mussolini Calls It Quits
Italian dictator Benito Mussolini steps down as head of the armed forces and the government. It soon becomes clear that Il Duce did not relinquish power voluntarily, but was forced to resign after former Fascist colleagues turned against him. He is later installed by Germany as leader of the Italian Social Republic in the north of the country, but is killed by partisans in 1945.
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