Vintage Pulp | Jan 29 2018 |
How many licks does it take to get to the center of Yuki Morisaki?
Above are a couple of attractive posters for a film that doesn't have a ready English title, but the translation from Japanese would be something like Shimojiro Shimoji (secret) Search for Kannon. According to the very reliable JMDB.com this one premiered today in 1975. As some of you doubtless know, Kannon or Guanyin is a figure from Buddhism, and is apparently associated with compassion. We haven't seen this movie, but online sources say it deals with a man (played by Gorô Ibuki) who is a genius at cunnilingus searching for a special woman (played by Yuki Morisaki) who is possibly a reincarnation or aspect of said Kannon.
The posters get the cunnilingus part of the movie across, if nothing else—notice how Gorô's naughty little tongue is out. His goal is somehow to impregnate Morisaki and be reincarnated as a great military leader, a curious choice of second life. If we could be reincarnated we'd come back as a Premier League striker and a power hitting second baseman. Actually, better yet, we'd just be born rich. Then we'd buy box seats at Premier League and MLB games and tell anyone who asked how we got rich that we were self-made geniuses. What would be a real genius move is finding this movie. We'll dig, but we make no promises.