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
