The Other Side of Busty with Mai Haruna
with English Subtitles

Some users may scoff at the idea of a website such as ours occasionally showing titles from a different era.  Some believe in the mantra that 'newer is always better' without fail.  Without exception, really.  For cutting edge medical treatment, sure, newer is probably better though a younger and recently graduated resident may be less ideal than someone else in his field with decades of experience.

With Japanese AV--an industry where 'new' really only means a title that's been out for 6 months tops--the time when a title becomes 'old' is awfully fast.  The stars of today may be considered relics for those following the previous mantra just months after their retirement.  We, as you can probably tell, don't subscribe to this thought-set.  Old isn't always bad though we do agree that on one hand budgets may be shrinking in today's market, the picture quality and even production quality has never been better.  Give the same directors who were working a decade ago even better technology to work with in the forms of more robust (but oftentimes smaller) cameras and you'll see all those years filming hundreds of titles coming back to good use.

Still, an older title filmed by the same director at the start of his impressive adult video career should be not be discredited.  This goes double when it stars a relatively popular actress of her time.  It goes TRIPLE when the title has had its mosaic removed and now can be viewed without the slightest hint of pixelation.

That's where we are today.  We're here penning a review for a movie released well over a decade ago, but we're not going to write it off.  THE OTHER SIDE OF BUSTY WITH MAI HARUNA may not be the gold standard for AV.  Even back when VIRTUAL WAVE made it, it'd be a hard sell for them to even consider submitting it for an AV Open award.  It would of lost then and now...now, the idea of packaging a title so simple in its execution to potentially win an award that most studios equate with large casts (which this one doesn't have) is almost laughable.

THE OTHER SIDE has its minuses, but it's also a title that we feel gives the viewer a look into a more innocent era of Japanese AV.  Sex exists as does various types of foreplay.  It's all there and it's all very light-hearted.  Voluptuous MAI HARUNA seemed to be enjoying herself mightily.  The last scene in particular has her on the offensive in a lightly femdom lightly CFNM encounter featuring her in schoolgirl raiment playing around with the erection of a half naked man.  Ample amounts of some type of clear and thick lotion is used and play starts with a predictable handjob, but concludes with a titjob ('paizuri' in Japanese) done surprisingly *through* her shirt.  Very impressive for MAI and if you're not packing some major cleavage, it's a feat that's all the more impossible.

Previous scenes showcased MAI HARUNA in a more traditional role as the submissive receiver of sexual play.  It's probably not necessary to give a play-by-play here though if hardcore without mosaic's something you're more than fond of, you should feel at home.  Watching 'classic' Japanese AV mosaic-free is something that's not too common.  Although we're fortunate to work with many studios that have been around since the beginning of the new millennium, it'd be unthinkable for any to re-release titles abroad without any censorship.  We're still surprised that VIRTUAL WAVE did and we consider it more of a black swan event rather than a sign of the times.