Timing and Translation by ZENRA

(Second Half online February 4th)

Time's a trip, isn't it? While the concept of women walking the streets is all old as the streets themselves, it's only been the last few years that the 'Tachinbo' phenomenon has blown up to appear on more "weird Japan" news sites to count. Even now when putting digital pen to screen, there still have not been too many studios utilizing this theme (really, this is surprising and I don't know why), but the overall concept of women approaching randos for sex is as old as JAV itself.

Now, for the specific theme of today and Wednesday's 3+ hour double update, one needs to look no further than another movie we showed around five years ago (!) with a very similar flow. What we get in I WAS APPROACHED FOR A FULL SERVICE EROTIC MASSAGE is extremely similar though this time the fourth wall has slightly more cracks. For starters, in that movie, it was JAV stars appearing from the get-go as walkers of the street. Here, we're told from the get-go they are indeed JAV stars; we're also told they need to find their own men. What's more--and this is a part I at first was not happy about, but later became a happy camper seeing how they worked with it--they needed to approach men to see if they were interested in 'aroma oil massages'. In other words, seeing if they wanted a regular massage that--surprising nobody--turns sexual (the other movie worked on a theme where from the start sex was clearly on the table).

Realism remains high and that's what is most important in movies like this. It's less about looks (though all are fine women!), little about sexual acrobatics, and even production values within reason don't count for much. What does is the vibe and the flow. While each of the massage scenes (except one that ends in the shower but still is great) all follow a similar format and are filmed in the same place, all are conducted slightly differently. Thus, something for everyone both in terms of types of play and types of bodies.

Do note that last two scenes running about 30 minutes each may appear as 'shoehorned' sex scenes where the director and JAV Genki Sudo (who probably was working as some sort of an AD, as he does often for HOT ENTERTAINMENT) film themselves banging two of the performers. Normally, I am not too fond of these types of encounters. After all, why not film more massage scenes? However, they work here for two important reasons: they are both filmed surprisingly well in spite of being self-shot and since the sex is somewhat lackluster in the massage portions (which is to be expected if we're under the assumption the men are all randos, not skilled actors!), seeing at least two of the actresses take all that built-up sexual passion and go wild makes for an excellent conclusion.