One of our ongoing preoccupations is what happens to gravure and music idols after they stop being famous. Once they have faded into obscurity, how do they survive? Get married and become homemakers? Go into hostessing or even prostitution? Or a totally different line of work?
Some evidently advance into careers in AV.
We also previously looked at the case of Yuka Kosaka, who now runs a nursery school in Chiba.
Others make the unexpected leap into mainstream politics.
Here is another cautionary tale.
The tarento Hanako Takigawa is only 28 but already has had a troubled, up-and-down ...
It's the video that launched a thousand imitators (and counting).
Pikotaro's PPAP (Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen) video made "PPAP" one of the buzzwords of the year and inspired a whole meme industry.
No doubt it will blow over in a few weeks' time.
Until them we can enjoy the variations, not least this eye-opening one by gravure idol Jun Amaki.
The busty gal is best known for her "I cup" chest and being a petite 148cm. That's quite a combination. She's also a former member of the masked idols group Kamen Joshi.
She has created a version of Pikotaro's PPAP ...
The Crawler in the Attic is a 2016 soft-core porn film based on the frequently adapted 1925 novel by erotic mystery writer Edogawa Rampo. Directed by Shoji Kubota, the plot concerns a private detective investigating the love triangle between a rich family's daughter, her fiancé, and his lover.
The film stars Yuki Mamiya (Yuki Mogami), demonstrating her continued enthusiasm for doing nude sex scenes. While not as wild as her bondage-themed outing in Sweet Whip, there is still a lot of Yuki's radiant flesh on display here, especially her cute breasts and also some bush. Stunning ...
Japan's futanari fetish just got a new toy to gratify all those urges that sadly can't be easily satisfied in real life.
As we know, futanari are not newhalf transgender women or josou cross-dressers. The key difference is that they are genuine hermaphrodites with both sex organs. As such, futanari is normally relegated to the world of anime, eroge and adult manga, or AV with carefully placed dildos so the girls seem to have cocks.
The Ryosei Guyu Onapet Futanari Onahole has everything you could want -- and it fits in the palm of your hand.
The name literally means "hermaphrodite ...
A new low-budget dramedy called Suki demo nai kuseni (Even though I don't like you) stars a "mysterious" actress called Riko, about whom almost nothing is known.
One thing is certain, though: she is very willing to shed her clothes for her craft. And very well she does at it, too, as the lengthy, explicit sex scenes attest.
See her nipples get fingered, watch her ride in the lap of a lucky guy, and peep in while she get head.
In a rare move, there is even full-frontal nudity that doesn't seem to be ...
We reported earlier this year about the AV debut of actress and model Anri Sakaguchi.
To appear in "What a day!!" the 25-year-old Sakaguchi (now going by just "Anri") is reportedly getting paid ¥120 million -- a suspiciously high figure considering she is a B-list celebrity.
She made her JAV debut on the Muteki label, which specializes in these kinds of career switchovers from gravure, music idol or mainstream entertainment. Past successes include with Yua Mikami/Momona Kito and Shoko Takahashi/Takasaki.
Most of these stars, though, do one or just a small number AV releases before ...
Tenga has produced a new commercial for its Iroha vibrator series.
DJ and model Culumi Nakada (Kurumi Nakata) stars in the ad, which specifically features the sleek black Yorukujira ("night whale") vibe from the Iroha Plus line.
It shows a "typical" Sunday for a Japanese girl, relaxing at home with a long bath and then enjoying a solo session with her personal Tenga Iroha.
It claims that using a vibrator like the Iroha will release "brain waves" and help make you think better after your tension is released. Tenga actually teamed up with a neuroscientist to measure brain activity after ...
Japanese TV is not known for its quality but it at least never fails to impress with its latest nude novelties or risque antics.
Now a TV show has appeared featuring gravure idols wearing sexy bikinis. Nothing new about that. There are even shows about gravure idol in armor.
But these are "failed" gravure idols, ladies who haven't made it big (yet). The idea is that the minor idols make their last grasp at fame on the show, wearing everything from noren (the low curtains that hang over entrances in Japan) to toilet paper, kagami mochi (a New Year decorative rice cake) or even lids of ...
Sendy Ariani, an idol from JKT48, the Jakarta-based sister group spin-off from AKB48, was fired in November for "inappropriate" actions. As usual, AKS did not elaborate and kept the scandal shrouded in ambiguity, though it hardly takes a genius to spot the clues.
That was back in November. A few weeks later, some of the truth is coming out -- namely in the form of leaked sex photos and a video allegedly showing Sendy Ariani enjoying herself with a male partner.
It looks quite a like her, but we can't confirm these are real so let us know what you ...
Remember Hikaru Toda?
She's the filmmaker who produced a documentary about love hotels we featured in 2014.
Now the Osaka- and London-based Toda (who has lived abroad for over 20 years) and her production studio, Little Stranger Films, is working on a documentary, Of Love & Law, about Japan's first LGBT law firm.
She has launched a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter to raise $30,000 to finish the project.
This is a documentary for anyone that has ever found themselves challenging or being challenged by the status quo.
Of Love & Law tells the hidden stories of people who ...
