Lovers Are Wet

Lovers Are Wet , Koibitotachi wa nureta? is a 1973 Japanese film in Nikkatsus Roman porno series, directed by Tatsumi Kumashiro and starring Rie Nakagawa. Alternate titles for the film include Twisted Path of Youth, Twisted Path of Love, and Lovers and Wet Sands. In 1999 the mainstream Japanese film journal Kinema Junpo named it as one of the best Japanese films of the 20th century.

In their Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia The Sex Films, the Weissers point out that while Kumashiros The Woman with Red Hair 1979 is rightly praised as a masterpiece of softcore porn, Lovers Are Wet is not a lesser work, writing, Both films are equally important in shaping Japans lucrative pinku eiga market.In his Behind the Pink Curtain The Complete History of Japanese Sex Cinema, Jasper Sharp writes that, like Woods are Wet and The World of Geisha both 1973, Lovers Are Wet is one of Kumashiros indictments of the hypocrisy of censorship. As in these other films, Kumashiro uses the censors tools purposely to ridicule the practice. In a scene in which a group of people play nude leapfrog on a beach, Kumashiro hides the actors genitals by scratching the surface of the film, creating a bizarre writhing spaghetti of lines. Film historian Donald Richie pointed out that the Japanese censors had used this method on nude audience members in the film Woodstock 1970. While these nonerotic nudes passed unnoticed in countries without such censorship, Richie notes of the Japanese version, When the film was projected the distant strolling couples consequently seemed girdled with fireworks. Though this called instant attention to what the censors were presumably attempting to hide, the letter of the law had been observed and this result satisfies all censors everywhere. ........

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