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Another lovely post from Motiman; if he were a woman, he would be any guy's dream, because he continues to put out here on Akiba-Online..
(My heart really went out to Motiman when I followed his link... look at all of the trouble he went to, attempting to translate from the Chinese.)
(I also give Motiman credit for analyzing the savage type of porn that I don't believe is his usual cup of tea... judging by how turned off he was to the scene in MALENA I provided screen shots for, which he criticized a few posts back as being "dark and harrowing.")
What prompted me to yap was in case anyone wished to track down the movie he brought up, Savage Father - Daughter Who Had Been Adopted at the Age of 12 [FAD-1324], with Ami Kawashima, Mina Manabe, Kyoko Kazami, Yuko Tachibana (Asian Screens also lists "Akira Sakurai," perhaps an alias for one of the first four names), its "FAX" counterpart turned out to be FAX-213. (Screen shots)
Yes, unfortunately there is no one place to go that lists both FAD and FAX "DVD" codes for the same movie. I mean, look; when I went out searching, I came upon both codes for the next one in the FAD line, FAD-1325, which also goes by FAX-247. If FAD-1325 is also FAX-247, it stands to reason FAD-1324 should be FAX-246, right? (It's "math." You subtract one.) But, NO! I sentence you to damnation, FA-PRO!
Motey sang the praises of this fine company, and I agree, some of their movies are just plain wonderful. But many are "heavy" as well, and you've got to be in the mood. Regardless, one must be impressed, because FA-PRO movies have "heart."
Since I'm belching out words, permit two FA-PRO digressions. As I was stumbling about trying to find the FAX code for FAD-1324 and ran into FAD-1325/FAX-247, I came across these screen shots, and I liked this lady:
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I do not know who the actress is, but I took a liking to her face. The movie is entitled, Life Spectrum Theater - A Wife Who… is Caught Thieving While Having a Period, is Run Ragged Drunk, Cannot Cope Unless She Gets It Everyday, is Caught Selling Her Body, starring Maria Tamaki, Yukari Asamiya, Kyoko Kazami and Yui ... no doubt she is one of those four names.
One of the heartwarming aspects for FA-PRO is that it's like (or used to be during the spoken-of period, 2009-10) an ensemble company, the same actors appearing over and over. (Look, Kyoko Kazami was also in the other movie we are talking about.) And this brings me to my second FA-PRO digression; as I was clicking the Asian Screens screen shots for one FA-PRO movie after the other, I became blisteringly aware of the same male actor faces in each of these titles. We are primarily talking about these guys.
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No point trying to figure out the DVD code system for Fa-pro as it does seem a complete mystery. I'm guessing but i think it's to do with having two different codes for their digital and physical releases but i may be wrong.
Just to confuse things even further i'm going to add that i made those subtitles using FAX-073 which is where the Chinese subtitles came from. If anyone is interested i will post the full sub file that i did but i can't guarantee it's accuracy as i ended up guessing half the time given just how bad the machine translation was at times.
Thanks for the list of actors too. It's always good to be able to put a name to the face although i'm sure i'll very quickly forget. I'm sure you'll be glad to know they still pretty much use the same actors even now.
Looks like the name of the actor from my latest translation project is up there too. Good old Yoshikazu Kōno puts in a great performance there. He sure is well suited to playing the dirty old man role.