Former actress Rena Komine did nude scene before arrest for drugs with Junnosuke Taguchi

Another week, another arrest for drug charges in the Japanese entertainment world. And another career in ruins.

It is, at the end of the day, all rather silly. In the grand scheme of things, is marijuana such a big deal? Apparently so if you are Tokyo’s boys in blue.

We are still not sure how or why the police pounced on the couple — a tip off from someone? — but apparently they had grounds to suspect former KAT-TUN singer Junnosuke Taguchi (33) and his girlfriend, former actress Rena Komine (38), of drug offenses. Officers raided the home they shared in Tokyo and found evidence of possession of marijuana, which is banned in Japan.

Komine has already retired from acting, it seems, and established herself as the head of an entertainment agency (jimusho). Since she is working “backstage,” so to speak, she may be able to salvage some kind of career after she is released, though we presume Taguchi’s acting roles and, more importantly, any possibility of lucrative advertising appearance fees, are gone the way of the dodo.

Netizens scrambled to remind themselves just who Komine was and quickly turned up a nude scene she did back in 2006 for the Japanese movie Hatsukoi (First Love), which starred Aoi Miyazaki in the lead role. Her other credits include the tamer Kamen Rider.

We did a little research ourselves and found these semi-nude photo shoots she did in happier times.