This was mentioned in the previous post, but rather than dealing with laserdiscs myself, I found a decent quality laserdisc rip of Tomomi’s “Graduation” on the website formerly known as Twitter, split into 13 parts and stitched back together here. The story is about a student’s crush on her teacher. Released by Cosmos Plan in 1987.
Indeed, Mr. Saitoh did.
The drama-like narrative production style Makoto Saitoh was known for is still present. There is a more traditional AV scene in here, but it’s still conservative, and the mosaic censorship is so heavy that you couldn’t make out anything either way (for one, showing pubic hair was still prohibited when this was filmed). Considering the runtime for this was just below 30 minutes, editing it in any capacity would have interfered with the story to the point that it wouldn’t make sense anymore. Still, this is really the “you could have easily shown that on late night TV” softcore type. It’s also genuine art.
The original copy posted was upscaled to HD and not properly deinterlaced, but I managed to remove most of the artifacts via QTGMC, although the heavy compression made it so that I couldn’t derive a 60fps version (the frame rate this was originally shot in) from it. The ending song sung by Akimoto is rather nice and her idol-like charms really blossom here.
I learned that Tomomi Akimoto had a small role in a TV drama called 藤子不二雄の夢カメラ. It was an omnibus drama and the episode with Akimoto also featured Yoko Minamino of Sukeban Deka II fame, how peculiar coincidence. Hehe.
Rare Tokusatsu 
Schwaa!!!: https://archive.org/details/raretoku-tomomi-akimotos-graduation
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I learned that Tomomi Akimoto had a small role in a TV drama called 藤子不二雄の夢カメラ. It was an omnibus drama and the episode with Akimoto also featured Yoko Minamino of Sukeban Deka II fame, how peculiar coincidence. Hehe.
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