Camera Shy

Studio: Third World Media

Stars: Kumiko Hayama, Rie, Miko, Souki and Sayaka

Running time: 2:56 (feature) and 0:36 (bonus scenes)

This is a tough one to write: I don't speak or read Japanese and I'm not up on their culture to understand some difference that might be important. So what comes off as weird to me may simply be cultural. Or maybe not. Sometimes weird is weird the world over.

This appears to be something along the lines of Dirty Debutants and that ilk; one guy hand-holds a camera and videotapes himself with various amateurs (they may or may not be). Each scene unfolds more or less the same way: an interview with the girl, then sex, which usually starts with some sort of masturbation (typically he locks the camera down and then masturbates her himself), then usually a blow job and then fucking in various positions and a cum shot at the end. The guy's voice is heard but his face is pixellated on the rare times it's in view. Usually it's cropped so that his head can't be seen (not from the front anyway).

The girls are japanese (the guy probably is too). The interviews are subtitled. Subtitles default ON but can be turned off. During sex there are no subtitles.

Scene 1: Kumiko Hayama is very busty, even by western standards. After her interview, her scene begins with her putting on a pink nurse's uniform and the guy plays with her boobs a bit. He then tapes what appear to be button vibrators on each nipple and runs a remote that buzzes both. After some of that, he pulls out a bullet vibe for her clit. That's followed by a little orange vibrator in her pussy, then his fingers. After that she's on her knees for some POV tit fucking, followed by a blow job, then missionary sex (with him playing with her nipples pretty much constantly), doggie style, some cowgirl, and finally her on her back again (and his hands on her nipples).

Scene 2: Sayaka is more what I think of as Japanese: slim and seemingly shy. After her interview she gets the bullet vibe, a little clitty licking, and then a standing finger fuck. The scene then moves to a bed where she gets a bit more masturbation and some cunnilingus, followed by a round with a big, goofy-looking dildo vibe and another hand job (and claim that she squirts at the end, but it's hard to see). Then it's her turn, and we get a blow-job and intercourse in various positions.

Scene 3: Rie claims to be a student, and has more northern features (like the more prominent cheekbones) than the preceeding two. After being masturbated, she blows him and then rides him in various positions. Rie seems like she actually enjoys it; something I'll comment more about later.

Scene 4: Miku has hair that partially covers her eyes, and she seems the shyiest of the batch. Later her hair is pushed out of the way and she wears glasses. She's masturbated through her panties, follows up with a blow-job and a little 69, then some more fingerplay and then straight sex.

Scene 5: Youki finishes up with some finger-fucking, nipple sucking, and more masturbation, then sex. It's as if the producers ranked the videos by their most extreme and put those first. This seems the most "vanilla" of the group.

Special Features: Something I haven't seen before: a cumshot recap subchaptered by girl, so you can go right to the finish if that's your bent. Four bonus scenes (Sayaka does not appear again) which appear to be outtakes. We start with Kumiko Hayama taking a long shower, then masturbating herself while wearing the pink nurse's uniform. She plays with her boobs and licks one of the nipples. Rie, Miku and Youki each take a shower with a hand-held sprayer, and then wash the guy's cock before blowing him. There's also the ubiquitous photo gallery (pretty good as photo galleries go--they're full frame and not, trailers for other titles and not ruined with stamps).

Camera work and sound are good, considering. No annoying music. I tend to watch movies with the sound off so the option to turn on subtitles was an added bonus for me. There are only five chapters, however--and again I wonder if they pay by the chapter stop. A video like this where they pack a lot of stuff into each scene really benefits from chapters so you can skip to your favorite part (or easily loop around). But no.

Easily my favorite thing here is the variety (at least within each scene, since most of the scenes pretty much follow a formula): masturbation, blow jobs, sex in different positions. I'm a boob hound and I particularly liked the attention the guy paid to breasts and nipples; this is something that's desperately lacking on videos that are supposedly about breasts. And the masturbation is better than most videos I've seen that are supposedly about masturbation. Some western companies would do very well to copy the content of this video.

The downside: this is where cultural differences kick in. Maybe it's cultural, or maybe it's just the way the girls look to western eyes, but they almost always look like they're in pain when they're supposedly in the throws of orgasm. Since I am not a sadist, this really puts me off. I want the girls to enjoy it, not feel like they're being torn apart. Seriously--some of the girls look as if they're fucking a cactus, and I weirds me out. Some are smiling at the end, but others (like the hauntingly beautiful Sayaka) look like they're going to cry. My problem is that I start thinking about that, and the distraction takes the lead out of my pencil. If you like that sort of thing, this is your video. If you don't--you may end up watching this video with a funny feeling that is simply not erotic.

Final verdict: I like Japanese women and these are hotties. The sex is great all the way around, and they pack in over 3 hours of action, so you get your money's worth. If you like masturbation, boobs, Japanese girls, and a hint of kinkiness, then it's a helluva title. But if you look at japanese videos and are disturbed by what appears to be the girls writhing in pain, not ecstacy--then you're going to have a problem with this--a big problem. Caveat emptor.