Today, we revisit a golden oldie. The Perfect Education is a series of pink eiga (soft-core porn films) that started in 1999 and has so far has produced eight films. Directed by Ben Wada, the original 1999 film (called Kanzen naru shiiku in Japanese) stars Naoto Takenaka in the lead (and who allegedly directed the sex scenes himself). Hijiri Kojima here shows off her 22-year-old charms even though she is playing a schoolgirl, who gets captured as a sex slave by an older man. At the time of making film, Kojima had also just published a hair nude ...

The "hair nude" is a curious Japanese-English term. It refers not just to naked flesh; it's naked flesh specifically with genital hair. What is "shocking" here is the display of pubic hair, the line by which art and entertainment is usually fettered in Japan. It is fine to have plenty of nudity in films and print publications, but to avoid the century-old ambiguous obscenity laws, people censored or did not show actual pubic hair. The hair nude set out to deliberately show this bush taboo was something to be challenged, both legally and artistically. While the likes of Nobuyoshi Araki ...