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Two for the Price of One
August 27th, 2007 under Media Report. [ Comments: none ]

The concept is simple enough: Take a cute, young girl and subject her to the onslaught of a dozen of Japan’s most accomplished bondage and SM maestros, non-stop, over the course of a day-long shooting schedule.

They work in pairs and each team gets an hour to put the girl through her paces. Truly a marathon of bondage and torment for the star of the day.

I recently met up with Osada Steve at one of our usual hangouts, a burger joint not far from Studio SIX. Later, he passed me a box containing two DVDs from the company Attackers. This is one in the Super Special series which feature this one-against-many concept.

Steve appears in this one alongside Mira Kurumi. Steve provides the majority of the expert rope work while MK seems to have different ideas. In other words, he brought his stun gun along, and not because he feared being mugged on the way home that night.

Others who appear in this particular production include Randa Mai, Chiba Eizoh, Osada Kazumi, Naka Akira and Kato Taka. I didn’t catch all the names, I’m afraid. My kanji reading ability is still abysmal. There were a pair of mistresses who specialized in hot wax and dildo action. They were as beautiful as the young starlet and as cruel as she was submissive.

Chiba Eizoh is, of course, well known for his nose and face torture style. Surprisingly (at least to me), his partner was Osada Kazumi. Kazumi used to be Osada Eikichi’s show partner and she ran something called Osada Seminar. I’m not sure if that’s still going or not.

I met her on a few occasions. She is equally comfortable tying and being tied. My guess is these days she is mainly tying and this was her role in the video while Chiba sensei applied his patented face torture paraphernalia.

Naka Akira was in good form.

It does seem that a lot of the videos have gotten a harder edge to them in the last few years. I think this is undoubtedly a response to competition from the internet. Naka’s piece featured some strong face bondage as well as breath control.

Randa Mai finished things up on Disc 2 with his usual masterful rope technique but, in keeping with the current fashion, he produced a bullwhip and used it on his helpless captive who was bound, wrists overhead and naked, standing on tip toes.

Overall, two discs containing 150 minutes of non-stop action at the reasonable price of 4,410 yen.

There is at least one other two-disc set in this series that I am aware of and I’m going to take a look at it as well. That one has Shikou Shima in it using his modified blow torch. He appears to be accompanied by an equally cruel mistress.

Two doms; two discs. Like the title says: two for the price of one.

KabukiJoe


Coming Attractions
August 22nd, 2007 under Miscellaneous. [ Comments: none ]

I recently posted an interview Osada Steve conducted with the late, legendary Akechi Denki. If you’re at all into bondage, and especially if you’re into Japanese style bondage, you know how precious and rare an interview in English is with the likes of Akechi sensei.

In fact, if you can find anything else like it on the web, please point me in that direction!

Personally, I found Akechi sensei’s comments both illuminating and fascinating. The language barrier can be formidable at times but, thanks to Steve, we can get a peek at what goes on behind the scenes of the enigmatic world of shibari in Japan.

These interviews aren’t easy to come by but I’m happy to say that I have some more in the pipeline. And they are with some of the top names on the short list of professional nawashi in Japan.

Because these interviews are so rare, I’m going to space them out a bit. I’d also like as many people as possible to be able to read the interviews before they get pushed down the page too far.

In the not-too-distant future I will also be posting a fascinating article about a Western woman who posed for a bondage photo while in Japan two decades ago. She went on a quest to find the photo, Not only was it eventually identified, she was even able to meet with the photographer. Prior to this she had neither seen the photo nor did she know if it had even been published.

A filmmaker, she documented her search on videotape and a film was produced. Her success in locating the picture and the photographer was due, in no small part, to the efforts of Osada Steve whose contacts in Japan are extensive.

This is an amazing story but it left me with even more questions. I should be meeting with Steve soon and I’ll see if I can get a few more details out of him. The article is schedule to be published in a magazine in Germany and when that’s done, I should be able to post it here.

In the meantime, I’ll leave you with some wet and messy action courtesy of Kotone-chan.

KabukiJoe


Wakamatsu Gekijo Report
August 13th, 2007 under Uncategorized. [ Comments: none ]

Presenting a firsthand account of stripping, bondage, hara kiri and midgets from a fan of Osada Steve’s. This report came in some time ago and we are reproducing it here for your edification. KJ

Nestled out in the middle of an otherwise undistinguished residential neighborhood in Chiba, is a fascinating little club called Wakamatsu. The photos of cute, perky women that are under glass next to the entrance are only a hint of what is inside.

The mirror-walled main theater consists of a U-shaped group of benches surrounding the main central stage walkway. This walkway ends in a carpeted two-meter wide turntable and connects to a wide but shallow main stage. Rigged with an impressive  array of spotlights, strobes, follow spots, pattern projectors and glitter balls as well as many overhead anchor points and karabiners, this flexible theater is ready for anything! The show schedule consists of five shows which rotate four times a day. Entrance costs 5,000 yen and there were many people coming and going throughout the time we were there.

There were several strip shows which consisted of three-part routines. The girl would come out and dance energetically in a lovely, complex costume. Then she would remove parts of her costume and continue dancing, showing more and more of herself. Then, typically, she would run to the back and change to a very revealing second costume, dance out to the turntable, and really show her stuff there, while rotating slowly for everyone’s viewing pleasure.   

She would continue removing items until she showed it all (as well as an inspiring amount of physical flexibility). The ladies were lovely, sexy and very energetic. Following Rie-chan’s show, she sold off a pair of her panties. Gentlemen would play group janken (the Japanese version of Paper, Scissors, Stone) against her and the winner got to take them off her. The guys were usually very shy and reluctant about it. One of them even waited for her to take them off and give them to him! Then she would come back in a skimpy, bottomless outfit and an instant camera, and guys could buy a picture of her (or with her) for 500 yen each.

Of course a horde of several obnoxious gaijin were always up there snapping pictures of each other with her and taking advantage of the opportunity to cop a feel. She stood up under the onslaught cheerfully and autographed the pictures later.

Besides the very energetic strip shows, there was a “couple show.” This consisted of a rather paunchy guy in a way-too-tiny set of bikini briefs and an extremely young, cute, slightly pudgy girl in a school uniform. She introduced herself shyly with the microphone and told us she was 19 years old. A short while later, she was sucking the guy off with a level of expertise far beyond her years!

After a bit of uniform-loosening foreplay and fellatio, the man proceeded to slip on a condom and slip it to her in a variety of positions while they rotated on futons on top of the turntable. She was very vocal and enthusiastic and he pounded away like a trooper. (On a personal note, I applied for the same job as that guy’s on the way out of the theater but it seems there’s a long waiting list ) A good time was had by all.

The next show was Saotome Hiromi doing her famous self-bondage and seppuku act. This was very graceful with her coming out first in a complete Shinto acolyte’s robe and serving sake to audience members from a sacred pitcher set. Each person served then got to remove the ties and part of her outfit (several layers).

Eventually, she was nude and she very quickly wrapped an orange rope around her into a torso web. Then she lighted a red candle and slowly began dripping the wax on herself with abandon. Then she perched on the edge of the stage and gave individual audience members the chance to drip the wax on her.

They eagerly dripped the wax all over her thighs, belly, legs and crotch. She went back to the center of the stage, pulled down a triple-pulley hoist from high up near the ceiling, and sat down. In about three seconds, she secured a two-meter piece of rope around her right ankle and calf and clipped it to the hoist.

Holding the candle with her legs, she then hoisted herself upside down and high into the air, spinning gently. She continued to drizzle wax down herself while spinning slowly in the air! Finally, she came back down, removed the ropes and stated that she wanted to give her body to the gods (I think that’s it, my Japanese is a little weak).

She went back to the center of the main stage and brought out a short dagger and a piece of rice paper. She ceremonially rinsed the dagger with water from the sacred vessel and wiped it clean. Kneeling, she ritually drove the blade into the left side of her stomach and pulled it across to the right, leaving a trail of blood. Then she drew it up and pulled it out.

Collapsing to one side, she struggled for breath and then plunged the dagger in once more right into her heart and crumpled slowly onto the stage as the light dimmed. A wonderfully dramatic performance!

Then came the show we had all been waiting for. A charming lady going by the name of Nana brought out two blindfolded women on leashes, wearing filmy negligees. She invited Steve to give a guest presentation and he stepped up onto the stage. Steve took his partner Ageha and masterfully bound her, then suspended her and worked her over on the main stage.

Meanwhile, on the central runway stage, Nana was working over Ami. Ami was stripped, bound tightly and had hot wax applied expertly. Then she was hooked to the upper karabiner and with one leg raised, was flogged and spun around. At the same time, Steve was working over Ageha, who was now suspended high above, but was having her legs alternately opened, then crossed. She was then tilted into a head down position and subjected to some serious molestation. In the meantime, Nana lowered Ami back down, untied her and ran backstage for a moment to get a strap-on.

Steve was giving Ageha a good flogging when Nana returned and forced the kneeling Ami to suck the strap-on and get it good and wet. She then took Ami doggy-style with the strap-on and pumped her good. Then I fell to the floor, cross-eyed and convulsing from trying to watch both of these fantastic shows at once. Too much to handle!

There was much more –- the Lebanese midget acrobats, the Clydesdale horses, and the whipped cream lesbian muff diving, but it’s getting late and I’ve got to work tomorrow so I’ll leave the rest to your imagination. A fantastic set of shows by truly excellent and enthusiastic performers. And Steve, of course, at the top of his form — working with such a smooth professionalism that he makes it all look so easy. He’s really popular at that place.  

Scotto 


Bits and Pieces, Odds and Ends
August 10th, 2007 under From the Editor's Desk. [ Comments: none ]

Serina Komuro I recently sent Steve a short video I edited for a project he’s working on. This sounds quite interesting and I’ll fill you in on the details as soon as I get the green light.

I actually made two versions of this video. One for his specific project request and another for use as an event promo. The latter is a bit longer and somewhat fancier. He really didn’t need anything fancy for the original assignment; I just got carried away with the unsolicited version.

I used footage that I already had handy which means Nami-chan is prominently featured in both videos. A new photo of Nami-chan can be found at the end of this report.

I believe I can be more forthcoming concerning a bit of news that came to my attention recently.
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