He is famed as the man with the midas touch, who can make a woman orgasm just by a few expert twists of his fingers. He is Taka Kato, the biggest man in Japanese porn.
And he is throwing in the towel.
After 8,000 women and 10,000 titles to his credit (talk about notches on the bed post!), the sprightly 54-year-old is retiring from Japan's most productive industry.
Along the way he has starred in a documentary about Japanese male porn stars and produced his own finger vibrator attachment, in a dog-eat-dog competitive industry dominated by the girls -- literally, there are said to ...
Soft on Demand has canceled the release of a porn film featuring the debut of a 21-year-old former actress who graduated from a "noted musical school." No names were specified but it is an open secret that the school was Takarazuka, who have brought out the legal guns to stop their name being "tarnished."
Takarazuka is of course the all-female cabaret theatre troupe based in the Osaka area that inspires a devout following among fans, who travel from all over the country to see the women play either the male or female roles in kitschy musicals at theaters in Osaka, Tokyo or other major ...
We blogged a few days back about the fascinating story of the double life of elementary school teacher Hitomi Sugawara, part Setagaya ward music pedagogue and part minor porn star.
All good things have to come to an end, and in her case it because she was involved with uncensored porn. Having no pixelation was the issue here, not that she was a teacher during the week.
We were all speculating about what she looked like. A small image of her online was swiftly removed by her school when she got snagged by the cops.
Now proper pictures have now emerged so we can finally see what she ...
Japanese porn shoots are very professional things. We have personal experience (not of appearing in them, we might add!) and can tell you that the major production companies run very slick operations. They come in and shoot their stuff very efficiently, and leave without any trace. They are meticulous about garbage and know exactly what they are doing, because they are literally making a new movie every day.
And then there are the more amateurish efforts. The results still have some value and charm. But the shoot itself won't be as well done.
Was this one of those?
Police have arrested ...
Shijonawate City in Osaka prefecture has punished two twenty-year-old firefighters with a six-month suspension.
What did they do wrong?
They appeared in a porn film.
Firefighters in Japan have a reputation for playing the field, earning good money and spending it on girls. These two clearly wanted to combine the two by getting some extra cash for making an appearance in an adult flick.
Apparently they were approached at Suma beach near Kobe in August last year by a scout. "You've got good bodies. Would you let us film you screwing some girls?"
They then went to a nearby condo and got ...
We love Tsubomi.
The cute JAV star, recently pregnant, has won legions of fans in Japan and rightfully so.
A documentary on the new Vice Japan channel looks at Tsubomi. It's in Japanese only but turn on the closed captions for English subtitles.
A highlight is at the start when she says she thinks Japanese people are more secretive when it comes to sex.
It doesn't go into any context or explore anything properly, just following Tsubomi around Akihabara as she looks at costumes and meets a few fans. There are some short clips from movie shoots.
There is quite a funny ...
Japanese porn star Sola Aoi (aka Sora Aoi) is immensely popular in China but her latest attempt to flog her titillating DVDs has backfired with the establishment.
She has now indulged in some calligraphy in the country, though it has been criticized as "unskilled" by traditionalists.
That hasn't stopped it from being auctioned for $95,000!
Sola wrote eight Kanji characters at a theme park in Ningbo, which were sold this month.
However, the media has tried to use the opportunity to criticize this "foreign" invader of the flesh.
"The style of calligraphy is childish, ...
It pays to be careless sometimes, it seems.
For a Japanese porn star, despite all those nakadashi (creampie) scenes, you would think that getting pregnant was the thing they fear most. It signals if not the end of their career, at least a large blimp where they cannot work.
But not if you are as cute as the cosplayer JAV porn star Tsubomi, whose latest film is simply called "Tsubomi Pregnant."
We think the main point of the film is thus pretty obvious.
Of course, there are lots of pregnant porn films already and even pregnant women sex shops for people with lactating breasts ...
Never, never let it be said that pornography isn't cultural. Far from it. JAV is high art!
We've known this for years and now there can be no denying it with the Naked Sex Art Museum, which we have been "visiting" recently.
The Soft on Demand (SOD) title features Anri Suzuki, Ryo Akanishi, Satsuki Kirishima and Reira Serikawa in a series of scenes that recreate famous paintings... in the most artistic way possible.
The cover of course is Sandro Botticelli's Venus.
Another major obvious one is Manet's "The Luncheon on the Grass".
The original painting in itself ...
Okay, so that's a provocative question but these are provocative films.
The Naked Continent is a series of Japanese porn films that feature JAV stars heading to Africa ("the dark continent") to meet the natives and go savage.
A lot is made of the contrast between the pale, innocent-looking Japanese girl and the dark tribesmen and women she meets.
There are several films in the series, each starring a different girl. So far stars have included Yui Takashiro, Yuka Osawa and more.
Naturally she gets very acquainted with the men, discovering an inner, feral sexuality through ...
