Reviewed by Peter Payne

Publisher: MostSexy Available at: J-List Cost: $50 US Video quality: Very nice "H" factor: Very sexy Sex: N/A Overview: Yinling is a fantastic hybrid between Japan and Asia, and this production is very satisfying and fun to watch

Again I find myself putting off more pressing work so I can bang out a review of a cool DVD for J-Mate. Once again this is a very biased review on my part, since I do think Yinling is cool

Yinling is new kind of creature in Japan: a Race Queen, that is, one of those very lovely girls who stand around and look sexy with corporate logos on their tiny uniforms. But she's from Taiwan, which makes her special right off the bat. She's even more special because of her highly developed sense of eros and the erotic things she is willing to do for the camera, making her something closer to an adult video actress, although her clothes are on (well, mostly).

The DVD is basically a perfect moving pictures version of the bold and interesting Yinling of Joytoy photobook series published in 2001. It is a 68 minute romp through China and Taiwan, filled with the incredible, almost undescribably cool eroticism of the lovely creature. The camer and aided by many bizarre objects (toy guns, swords that look like they came out of a bad Hong Kong movie, insanely funny prots like a magazine of Star Trek from the 1960's Yinling reads while on the toilet). Besides the incredibly beautiful erotic costumes Yinling wears as she rubs her body erotically, often in some of China's most hallowed places, the aesthetic universe that the filmmaker brings us is complete. Created by Russian director/photographer Hirakanovsky Kuratachenko (this is what the official site says, although there's a chance this is an outrageous penname of some Japanese director), the DVD is filled with interesting pseudo-Asian, pseudo-Communist elements, such as old 1950's images of Red China, but with text in Russian, images of Yinling wearing a military uniform of the height of the communist era (then pulling it off and wearing almost nothing underneath).

It's also cool because, for 90% of the DVD, there are no spoken words at all -- everything is carried by the strength of the video and imagery. Yinling walks through a crowded city in a bizarre sexy costume, holding several toy guns. Flash to a scene of her on a mountain, cutting air with a sword. Then a shower scene that's quite erotic. Yinling assumes the role of a hitman and surprises herself, sitting on the toilet. She then goes into the hotel room and finds herself again, sitting on the bed doing sexy things (mock-masturbating, I guess you'd say). She pops a condom in her mouth while she plays with herself -- no Race Queen we've seen up til now would do this. She walks out the door and playfully shows you her panties -- she's good at that.

Some of the most famous palces in China appear in this DVD, and we wonder how they managed to get this footage without being shot and having their internal organs sold to the West. There's no actual nudity, but much of the erotic things Yinling does surpass pornography, and I wonder how they managed it all. They are in the Forbidden City in Bejing -- that's not the best place to start masturbating, or so I imagine. The beautiful places they film the video really add to the mystique and boldness of the production as a whole.

It's a region 2 DVD, so you need to either watch it on your computer, or spring for a code free DVD player. It'll be worth it. (See J-List for some good news on this front.) My recommendation is, if you dig this kind of ultra-pop-culture celebration of Asian culture, and if dig slender women that look great, by all means, pick it up!
Originally posted April 27, 2002.