Japanese Idol Worship: Akiho Yoshizawa (ACKY)

Name: Akiho Yoshizawa (ACKY) , kanji (吉沢明歩).
Birthday: March 3rd, 1984.
Birth Place: Tokyo.
Heigth: 161 cm
Body Measurements: Breast:86cm (E Cup) Waist:58cm Hip:86cm
Blood Type: A.
Hobbies/Talents: Visiting Museums / Playing Tennis / Cooking.


In addition to her hardcore AV videos, Akiho Yoshizawa has also has had a significant career in mainstream movies and softcore V-Cinema and pink films including the August 2004 horror movie Koibone and the May 2008 science fiction comedy Shin supai gâru daisakusen known in English as Spy Girl's Mission Cord #005 where she plays an evil alien seductress. Koibone was later (June 2005) released as a DVD by Taki [THD-14161]. In another genre, Akiho Yoshizawa played the female ninja (kunoichi) Kasumi in the erotic action V-Cinema September 2007 release Lady Ninja Kasumi Vol.4 (Kasumi: Tanjou! Sarutobi Sasuke) based on a manga by Youji Kanbayashi and Jin Hirano.

She also starred in the 2005 pink film Fascinating Young Hostess: Sexy Thighs which was ranked as the Best Film of the year at the 2006 Pink Grand Prix. Akiho Yoshizawa won the third Best Actress award at the same ceremony for her role in the movie. In an interview, Akiho Yoshizawa said she first met the director of the movie, Tetsuya Takehora, when he directed her in a V-cinema production Erotic Fountain for the TMC studio in 2006. She was given a Best Actress award for her work in the pink film genre at the 2006 Pinky Ribbon Awards. In September 2008 she had a major role in the film drama Madobe no honkîtonku which was also released as a DVD in November 2008. In another adult manga-based movie, the November 2008 TMC release Irokoishi: Horo-hen kabuki-cho zecchotaiketsu!! she plays the heroine Rie. In this third movie in the Irokoishi series called in English Irokoishi 3: Wandering – Kabukicho Ecstasy Battle!!, Rie is the victim of erotic hypnosis by the evil Ishida and is rescued by the hero Kikunosuke using his superior sexual techniques.

Akiho Yoshizawa's TV appearances include the TV Tokyo production Jōō which aired in 12 episodes from October to December 2005. Fellow AV Idol Sora Aoi was also in the show. Akiho Yoshizawa returned in a special guest appearance in the 2009 sequel to the show Jōō Virgin. From April 2008 she was also a cast regular on the late night TV Osaka variety show Please Muscat which also included other S1 actresses such as Sora Aoi, Yuma Asami, Rio (Tina Yuzuki) and Mihiro singing and performing comedy skits.

Along with two other idols, Mihiro and Kaho Kasumi, Akiho Yoshizawa also ventured into another medium with the 2005 UMD format video English Cram School where the three actresses give lessons in English. The softcore video, published as GBTU-002 by Success, is for the Sony PlayStation Portable (PSP). Another PSP video and game was the December 2006 All Star Yakyuken Battle, a striptease version of "yakyuken" or "rock-paper-scissors" where Akiho Yoshizawa joined with AV actresses An Nanba, Kaho Kasumi, Kaede Matsushima, Mihiro, Ran Asakawa, Rei Amami, Sora Aoi and Yua Aida. The game and video were released for the PSP and in Blu-Ray for the PS3.

CD Review: Disco Undead

Various – Disco Undead

Label: Device – IRQ08CD

Format: CD, Compilation

Country: UK

Released: 2004

Genre: Electronic

Style: Electro

Picked this little gem up on the now defunct moviegrooves, I bought it based on the cover art alone. What we have here is an awesome compilation of covers of zombie movie and John Carpenter Scores done up electropop style. Forget the fact that you haven’t heard of these bands and Dj’s before, they are all really good.

When each track played I had the warm feel of familiarity but then was quickly turned on head as the tracks were all given the electro treatment.

Although released in 2004, it’s not that hard to find a copy on ebay. I wouldn’t pay more than $25 but they occasionally pop up for more.

Check it out, recommended.

Track list:
Orgue Electronique - Le notti del terrore (04:59)
Gique - Fulci's rotting children (06:03)
It & My Computer - Le droit de tuer (04:38)
Bangkok Impact - The pianist and the reporter (06:49)
Solenoid - Suspiriorum (04:07)
Tobe Hooker - Haddonfield fear factory (04:16)
Legowelt - Season of samhain (04:05)
Johhny Cortex - 7 gates (Disco in room 36) (06:02)
Negative - Cannibal sluts (05:00)
Fictional Character - From another world (06:23)
Le Syndicat Electronique - The anderson alamo (05:12)
Porn Darsteller - Holocaust (08:52)

I Love the 70's

When I was in Fort Worth this last week I watched the Criterion Collection disc of "Dazed and Confused." I forgot how awesome that movie was. I truly believe it's highly underrated as a "stoner" flick. It's so much more than that.

I was born in the mid 70's so I didn't get to enjoy them as a teenager like I would have liked. Instead those prime years were happening in the nineties for me. A lot of people wish they could have grown up in simpler times, but my wish is that I could have been a young man in the 70's.

It was a strange time. The hanger-on's from the sixties counter culture kept the flow of drugs heavy well into the seventies, American car manufacturers were assembling the last of the true muscle cars, and Juvenile Delinquency was at a new high. As burnt out hippy parents gave a "don't give a shit" attitude to what there kids were doing.

It was a magical time to be a youth. The Vietnam war had ended and Reagan's war on drugs hadn't started yet. The free love of the sixties gave way to rampant VD scares and truancy was at an all time high.

I love the films of the era, and I think no modern day film captured the feeling of the 70's as well Dazed and Confused.

Fashion in the 70's was just plain ugly by today's standards but I love it all. That gaudy excess and extreme personification of fashion carried over to car and truck owners. Any regular visitor knows about my love of 70's good times vans, and what they represented. It wasn't only the van owners having all the fun though. Take a look at some of these custom Trucks of the era. Ugly to some, beautiful to me.