One of the all-time greats.

Possibly your best video!

Thanks for the compliments, guys.

We had so much fun making that scene. My buddy Luke had just started hearing about our vids and jumped at the chance to help out mixing cream, etc. -- and he couldn't help himself when he saw this huge 30-litre tub of whipped cream -- he just stuck his head in it. It was fucking hilarious.

Then I asked Luke to play the voice and pie-arm of the vendors by the river; of course he said yes. He was so happy to suddenly find himself allowed to pie our friend Junko in the face. He'd had no idea she was involved in our shoots, and she's always so reserved and delicate, with perfect hair and makeup. The look on his face just before that shot -- and Junko's, too.

Also, this was only Junko's second shoot with us, if I'm not mistaken. She'd done "Guess the Goo!" with Kana and Maria already, but compared to this scene the facial mess she received in that one was fairly tame: a few pies, a honey gunging, and a sliming -- but Junko had joined that first shoot on the condition that I try not to get too much slime in her hair. But in this scene not only does she take tons of pies, honey and chocolate syrup, she also gets that awesome fucking green sliming from Mai. Even though she knew what was about to happen, she sort of didn't really know what was about to happen. She looks up at petite little Mai holding this bucket and says her line, "You had a bucket in your bag?" and Mai just dumps it like a fucking pro, fast and accurate, and Junko had no idea so much was coming so quickly. It left all of us speechless and laughing for a couple minutes.

And Mai was just the best to work with. Not only was she really into the shoots as a sexual fetish thing, but also for the laughs. And she did a lot behind the scenes, too. In this scene, that backdrop (well, large sheet of paper) with the trees, grass, and sign that says "Riverside Park" -- Mai drew that for us. She went to art school and is quite talented. (Actually, she also whipped up ALL of the art pieces hanging on the walls in the "Dinner Party" sketch with her and Maria.)

My only regret is not having better cameras, a better shooting location (I was living in a tiny apartment), or a better knowledge of lighting or digital editing at the time. If I could re-do those old scenes now...

Anyway, I'm glad people still appreciate these scenes. You know, even though shooting them, editing them and re-watching them has obviously brought me a lot of sexual satisfaction, and that was my whole reason for getting into it, the biggest value for me now are the cool memories of those shoots and the cool friends I made. Mai and I ended up as roommates for a little while around 2011-2013, which was fun, and I still chat with Junko about movies on Facebook and see her whenever I go back to Osaka. (Useless fact: Junko and I actually have the same birthday -- a birthday we both share with our model Chika, who is now my wife!)

I think one day, when I have a lot of time, I'm gonna go back through all the original raw footage from these shoots and edit together a compilation of the funny moments that weren't part of the script or the action, the funny things that were said after I'd yelled "cut" and the stupid bits I shot before, during, and after the actual shoot that had nothing to do with the scene and didn't make it into the edit.

OK, "old man reminiscing" time is over. As you were.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHcyBQPTVL0