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Category:    Home > Reviews > Exploitation > Sexploitation > Japan > Germany > Eros School: Feels So Good (1977/Nikkatsu)/Schoolgirl Report, Volume 8: What Parents Must Never Know (1974)/Zoom Up (1981/Nikkatsu/Impulse DVDs)

Eros School: Feels So Good (1977/Nikkatsu)/Schoolgirl Report, Volume 8: What Parents Must Never Know (1974)/Zoom Up (1981/Nikkatsu/Impulse DVDs)

 

Picture: C+/C/C+     Sound: C+     Extras: C-/D/C-     Films: C

 

 

Now for some cheesy and wacky erotica… sort of…  we guess…

 

 

Kurahara Koretsugu’s Eros School: Feels So Good (1977) is about a teacher who is having affairs with various female students and some of it goes way too far.  Anything that is shocking becomes quickly obnoxious and boring, but was likely more surprising at the time.  This was not that memorable, but fans of this cycle apparently like this film, so they might enjoy it.  Others will see it as dated and not too impressive.  A paper pullout with an essay by film scholar Jasper Sharp is the only extra.

 

 

The pursuit of young and likely underage gals continues with Ernst Hofbauer’s Schoolgirl Report, Volume 8: What Parents Must Never Know (1974) from Germany that has less gross moments, more nudity, a more naturalistic style and is still as forgettable.  This one has the title gals on a bus trip that will get too sexualized for anyone’s good, but it is too bad this is not that good either.  It is at least a more enjoyable curious with a better erotic spirit about it, but anything relating to a script is as thin as the nightgowns and this is a curio at best.  There are no extras.

 

 

Finally we go back to Nikkatsu around the same period for Takashi Kanno’s Zoom Up: The Beaver Book Girl (1981) which is also obsessed with…. schoolgirls!  This one is a revenge tale of a young woman who is assaulted sexually, only to return for revenge, but even that does not give this silly romp (sometimes gross too) a better script or make it any more memorable.  These are for fans only and only older audiences at that, but that audience is there.  Only see it if you are VERY curious.  A paper pullout with an essay by film scholar Jasper Sharp and Original Theatrical Trailer (yes, these were in movie houses!) are the only extras.

 


The anamorphically enhanced 2.35 X 1 image on Eros and Zoom are a little better than the anamorphically enhanced 1.66 X 1 image on Report, though both have good color and the actual print sources are not bad for their age.  The lossy Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono in all three cases are cleaner and more even, though they all show their age and budget limitations.

 

 

-   Nicholas Sheffo


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