The La Bocca Della Verita series of blowjob masturbators is back. Inspired by the Bocca della Verità marble mask in Rome, this bestselling series of toys by Magic Eyes is also known as the Mouth of Truth. But unlike the original Mouth of Truth in Italy is purported to do, these won't bite off your hand (or other appendage) if you're a liar. It has returned in two new "mini" versions that offer either a "hard bite" or "soft bite" sensation. If you loved the Ochobo-guchi toy, the first "mini" version of the Mouth of Truth, you're gonna love these updates. Like with all previous ...

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Most of our readers will be regular Japanese adult video fans and perhaps serious connoisseur. No doubt they will already know of June Lovejoy, the American woman who frequently plays curvy English teachers. Lovejoy is one of several foreign actors currently active in the industry. Others include Melody Hina Marks, while past stars include Leroy Clala, Olivia Kaoru Rurouni, and the wildly successful Rola Misaki. We wanted to share some highlights from a recent in-depth interview with Lovejoy, published in the Tokyo Weekender. Naturally, Lovejoy (who is queer and uses they/them as pronouns) ...

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Curvy, busty gravure idols are nothing new. But it can still make you stop and sputter when you stumble over a provocative shoot. Take Aoi Fujino (藤乃あおい), whose bust is meant to measure a whole meter! Her latest photo shoot is nude -- or at least about as close as it is possible to be without being nude. Making her 23rd birthday, Fujino shows off her attractive body by posing with her arms over her breasts (the classic tebura pose) and a hand covering her crotch. Sometimes the only thing preserving her modesty is her long hair or soap suds rubbed over her wet body. But when it ...

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When we talk about porn and sex, we tend to reach for heat-related metaphors. That guy or girl is a hottie. The sex was hot. And so on. Being cold or frigid is usually a bad thing. Right? Apparently not. The latest example of the weird and wonderful subgenres of fetish porn that occupies a surprisingly large section of the Japanese adult video market is this release from Rocket (RCTD-482), which came out on July 21. It features a schoolgirl who becomes frozen -- as is rock-solid frozen -- during sex and then gradually loses the ability to move her body. She ends up a kind of blue ...

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The recently retired porn star Nanami Kawakami has announced her pregnancy and marriage. The 29-year-old shared the news with fans on August 1 via social media, though she says she actually married her partner on July 7. Her due date is next January. The announcement tweet included charming pictures at the beach, with her partner (whose face is hidden) slipping a ring on her finger and Kawakami beaming at the camera with her ring on. Kawakami, who has been candid about the financial pitfalls of her line of work, retired at the start of 2022 after a successful career lasting her ...

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In recent weeks, we have been obsessing over the porn debut of music idol Rikako Inoue (now performing as Yotsuha Kominato). With all the new JAV releases each month, it can be easy to forget who was big a season or so ago. One sure sign that you have progressed from the fleeting triumph of debutant-of-the-month to established star surely arrives when you are invited to work with a sex toy brand to produce your own item. Kaoru Yasui provided one of the most high-profile debuts last year when she made the switch from gravure to porn. She has continued to release further AV titles and now her ...

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We came across an interesting interview with pink movie actress Chisa Hasegawa (長谷川千紗) in the excellent Substack newsletter Tokyo Calling. Here are some highlights. As regular readers will know well, pink movies (pinku eiga) are softcore porn or sexploitation films that were immensely popular in Japan in the 1960s and 1970s, but were decimated by the rise of hardcore adult video in the 1980s and 1990s (as chronicled in The Naked Director). Nonetheless, the industry is still going, surviving thanks to the dedication of certain performers and producers, and eking out a tiny margin ...

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TikTokers are the new social media stars -- and the new porn stars. In an industry always desperate for the Next Big Thing, TikTok seems to offer a source of sexy young ladies who want to promote themselves. Following the examples set by biracial stunner Okogetan and duck-faced Unpai, the latest popular user of the short-form video platform to debut in the Japanese porn industry is Ichika-sensei (いちか先生). Known by her user name @ichikanihitomebore (literally, "Ichika love at first sight"), Ichika has almost 200,000 followers on the platform, plus over 10,000 subscribers and ...

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The Japanese actress Yoko Shimada (島田陽子) has died, aged 69, from complications of colorectal cancer. She was best known internationally for her English-speaking role in the miniseries Shogun from 1980, adapted from the James Clavell bestseller. Shimada rose to fame in Japan in the 1970s as an actress and singer, and then capitalized on her role in Shogun and became a star in Japan (though more international roles were few and far between). But it all came crashing down in the late 1980s, when an affair with the musician Yuya Uchida was exposed by the tabloids and all her work dried ...

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SOD Star are pulling out all the stops for the porn debut of former Fairies music idol Rikako Inoue. Now performing under the name Yotsuha Kominato (and also releasing her own music), her first adult video (STARS-685-VT) came out in June and has been the biggest debut of the summer, aided by a large publicity budget. Fans of the beautiful Rikako/Yotsuha are clamoring for more. So much so that SOD Star are releasing a special 264-minute 4K version from August 4. Now only is the video now 4K quality, it contains a previously unreleased sex scene in a hotel. The 4K version is available, as far ...

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