"Mount Fuji"
Posted on 03/05/2011 9:23:01 AM PST by llevrok
Reporting from Tokyo — At the seemingly fragile age of 76, his story is the stuff of Hollywood legend (Well, maybe the seamier side of the San Fernando Valley), a tale made more outlandish because it happened to a buttoned-down salary man in hyper-conservative Japan.
For years, a Tokyo grandfather kept a dirty little secret from his family. Longtime travel agent Shigeo Tokuda, who resembles countless older men who ride the Tokyo subway each day, admitted to his wife and daughter that he sometimes performed cameos in small-budget films.
But what this senior citizen didn't say was that those scenes, often staged in would-be retirement homes, involved getting naked with actresses young enough to be his granddaughter. Since he was "discovered" in 1996, Tokuda has emerged as a major player in Japan's emerging adult movie genre known as "elder porn." He says he has appeared in more than 350 films such as "Prohibited Nursing" and "Maniac Training of Lolitas." In these scripts, Tokuda always gets the girl.
(snip) . "It's not that I'm proud, but it feels nice to be useful," he says. "My wife is glad that at my age I've still got someplace to go."
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
"Mount Fuji"
IIRC I saw this guy in... “Mount Fuji”
I give up. Who played Fuji?
How well organized are angry mother brigades over there? I have a vague idea of those some of the gross out “subcultures”.
hahahahahahahaaha
Well, I guess there’s still hope for us to make it in pictures!
Bom Chicka Wah Waaah !....
私が付いているねじれた性を有したいと思うか。
“he says. “My wife is glad that at my age I’ve still got someplace to go.””
Texas girl, I about split my sides laughing when I read that!
He makes it sound as though his wife is relieved at his absence.
This is the first time I’m hearing of this, but I’m not surprised.
The first two things that leap to mind are:
1. This would appeal to some Japanese men, even middle aged, because it harkens back to the (largely illusory) “Tenkoku” days of absolute power, when an elderly bushi could behave like this so long as he had the military power to compel obedience.
Over 90% of the people, of course, lived in jigoku, not tenkoku, but every sarariman seems to assume that he would have been among the privileged rather than the oppressed. (See “Peasants, Rebels, & Outcasts,” Mikiso Hane, Pantheon, 1982)
2. I think there is a special frisson to rebelling against the “foreign” influence of feminism, which seems to regard too great an age difference between lovers—or even spouses—as a foul perversion and a crime against the dignity of womankind.
The Japanese have a history that stretches back to Perry of being told that one or the other of their traditional practices is unacceptable and must stop. I wouldn’t be a bit surprised if there were a current of rebellion against this absolute prohibition on the traditional practice of elderly men having a young woman to comfort them as they descend into the grave.
My religion doesn’t allow for it, so please don’t assume that I am condoning it.
Bet you have the whole collection!
Nahhh, you’re not old enough yet. ;D
“He makes it sound as though his wife is relieved at his absence.”
Back in the 1980s, I remember talk about the perfect husband being healthy, employed by a big company, and on extended assignment to someplace far, far away.
LMAO !
...Yep......animal husbandry 101 was not an elective for us ranchers....:o)
Stay safe buddy !
One of my Japanese business friends used to call that rasto spurto. Not speaking Japanese, I can not translate what that means (smile).
They are an amusing and curious bunch to gai-jins like me.
Ditto!
“on the traditional practice of elderly men having a young woman to comfort them as they descend into the grave.”
What, you think this behavior is exclusive to Japan?
http://forladiesbyladies.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/anna-nicole-smith-and-howard-marshall.jpg
http://turbo.inquisitr.com/wp-content/2010/04/hugh-hefner_crystal-harris.jpg
Totally. Heck, child porn is practically legal there.
Anyway, must keep these old guys alive doing movies about screwing nurses. And incidentally, Japan has a very low rate of Alzheimer’s Disease probably because of their seafood-rich diet.
Not quite the reaction I would expect from my Japanese wife, but maybe she will see things different in 30 years.
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