In a recent interview on a late-night TV Tokyo show, adult video actress Rena Momozono (桃園怜奈) shared some of her early experiences of trying to balance a secret porn career with a "normal" life.
The 25-year-old I-cup beauty from Hyogo made her debut anonymously in the industry in 2015 while a student at a prestigious college. In the space of just a month she was identified. She released only three titles with Fitch before retiring in 2016.
She originally wanted to become a gravure idol and went to meet an agency in Tokyo, only to be told that she could only do AV. The 19-year-old ...
The model, singer, and actress Mariya Nishiuchi has made a foray into gravure with a bikini cover shoot for the current issue of Weekly Playboy, which went on sale in Japan on Monday.
As the weather turns well and truly wintry here in Tokyo, it may seem a peculiar choice to have Mariya in a sexy bikini and emerging from the sea, her body dripping. (Where and when did they do the shoot? Given the travel restrictions, surely somewhere in Japan, but it's chilly even down south in Okinawa right now, so it must have been a few weeks ago.) Still, it's got us dreaming of summer -- not to mention ...
Actress and gravure idol Manami Shindo (新藤まなみ) has taken her career to the next stage with another nude photo shoot and her first image DVD release in four years.
The 29-year-old, who was briefly a reporter for TBS in 2014 and can apparently speak five languages, also released a digital photo book earlier in the year. As an actress, her appearances include an episode of Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger (from the Super Sentai tokusatsu franchise).
She did an onsen-themed nude shoot for weekly magazine Friday over two issues back in April, showing off her naked back and butt, and wet ...
Terrace House is sadly canceled but the people that the show made into (minor) stars are still around, and some of them are trying to continue their success.
The "sports talent" Risako Tanabe (田辺莉咲子) is one and has now made her gravure debut. The athletic and well-toned beauty just did her first gravure shoot, which appears in the issue of Weekly Playboy on sale from November 8. As gravure goes, there's not too much to get excited about here, but perhaps it will lead more, racier shoots in the months ahead.
The 23-year-old (who is a petite 148 cm) stays in shape by doing workouts ...
The Lower House election in Japan was held on Sunday -- yes, Halloween. The populace elected a bunch of ghouls and monsters to represent them.
One person who failed in their first bid to win a seat was the former gravure idol Chisato Morishita. Now aged 40 and still looking great, Morishita was trying to get elected in Miyagi as a candidate backed by the conservative LDP (who won the election overall). She got 61,410 votes (the ultimate winner got 81,033 votes, securing their ninth continuous term).
As we reported earlier in the year, she has been campaigning since the spring. (In Japan, ...
There are those times when you go, "Oh, THAT person." And suddenly it all makes sense where you have seen someone before.
Mayu Ura (浦まゆ) is not a name that many, if any, people knew. But her face was familiar from a lot of adverts -- and frankly, some pretty striking, even downright weird, ones.
The 29-year-old is appearing in several commercials, with current contracts with 10 brands.
Well, she may struggle to land major advertising deals now, since she's taken a new step in her career with a nude gravure shoot for a Weekly Playboy (with an accompanying digital photo book). ...
Comedian Sanma Akashiya is up to his old tricks again, if reports in the Japanese media are to be believed. Known for his success with the ladies even in his fifties and sixties, Akashiya has previously been linked with porn stars Eririka Katagiri and Makoto Yuuki.
Now comes a report that Akashiya, who is 66, took out porn star Kana Momonogi for dinner, ostensibly to "celebrate her success." He was an admirer and got connected with the 24-year-old through a personal contact.
The result was an intimate dinner between just the two of them for two and a half hours. So if you're rich, famous, ...
The ex-AKB48 idol Nana Owada (大和田南那) has posed semi-nude for the current issue of Weekly Flash.
The 22-year-old is promoting her second photo book, "private," which comes out on November 30. The 10-page shoot features unused shots from the upcoming release.
The now-conventional tebura "hand bra" shot is really nice, as is the one where she's lying on her side and her arms just about cover her breasts. That said, it actually looks like she is taming things down from her first photo book, which was even more revealing in terms of the amount of flesh on display (though not outright ...
Call us naive or just ill-informed, but we didn't know that Momone Yasuda (安田桃寧) was hiding such big boobies! Fortunately, we do now, thanks to a visual introduction to her breasts.
The 20-year-old member of Osaka-based idol group NMB48 is releasing her first photo book, "The Reason I Want to Meet Again," later this month. The initially available preview images are not only surprisingly sexy for such a young idol and debut effort, but also show off how busty she is.
If Momone Yasuda, who joined NBM48 in 2015, naked under a pair of dungarees or while bathing sounds like your kind of ...
She's back. And though in the interim, there have been thousands of Japanese gravure and music idols to keep us more than entertained, we didn't realize how much we missed the slinky charms of former SDN48 idol Serina (芹那) until we saw her again.
And we see a lot of her this time.
Since in her first photo book release in 10 years, Serina has gone semi-nude -- showing off her more mature and experienced, 36-year-old body.
She graduated SDN48 -- remember, the sexier version of AKB48? -- way back in 2012, after which we heard little about her.
Now she's making a jukujo comeback with a ...
