Re-post since the forum crashed and the old post went missing
BiS is not dead!
BiS disbanded, but you can see them in theaters in February in
BiS Cannoball Run 2014, which is a documentary film about their last days before disbanding. What makes it really interesting is the director: Company Matsuo (yes, his first name really is "Company") is a legendary porn director famous for the hamedori style AV which he started. In hamedori Matsuo, who is the only crew member in his movies, doesn't only film himself having sex with "ordinary" girls, he documents every bit from receiving a call from a girl to travelling (possibly to another side of the country) to meet her, and thoroughly getting to know her and her motivations before the sex which might or might not come. This is all done to make it far more personal and real than the typical platonic sex seen in AV.
Now Matsuo is using his skills to make a doc about BiS. It seems like he used the same technique as Koji Shiraishi in Shirome and created some sort of fake program that his crew was supposed to be filming while not letting the girls know that they are actually making a documentary!
The tagline: Idols vs. Porn Director!
Website (almost empty):
http://bis-cannon.jp/
MidnightEye article on Company Matsuo
http://www.midnighteye.com/features/com ... ult-video/
The film's title, BiS Cannoball Run 2014, is also a direct reference to Matsuo's other famous concept, Cannoball Run, which is a series of AV films in which contestants race through Japan, competing in both speed and the number or amateur" girls they have sex with during it. The latest one, from 2013, was edited into a movie version (the original dvd release is over 8 hours) called Telekura Cannoball Run 2013 and became a small phenomena - it's been playing in various arthouse cinemas (Shibuya Auditorium), movie theaters focusing on documentaries (Pole Pole) and trendy cinemas focusing on indie films Tokyo (Theater Shinjuku). Seems like, once again, Matsuo managed to capture something more than just sex on his cameras.
). The new theatrical film is supposed to be set 2 years after the events of the short film, if I understood correctly.
