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 ...
Japanese porn's inventive penchant for parody is well documented on the pages of this blog. Past examples include Demon Slayer, Joker, and Weathering with You.
The latest to catch our attention is a parody of Tokyo Revengers, a franchise that has spawned a bestselling manga series, TV anime series, and recent live-action film adaptation.
Starring Akari Mitani (who recently got her own clone masturbator toy!), the 152-minute release (HMN00077) from Honnaka is directed by Nao Masaki and came out November 23 in Japan.
Like the original series, the AV has a time travel premise. Akari has ...
The tabloid magazine Weekly Bunshun has published an interview with someone they give the alias Yuna Ishihara, who is apparently a 24-year-old student at Tokyo College of Music.
But she also appears in adult video and works at a soapland in Yoshiwara, Tokyo's long-established red-light district in the east of the city.
But due to the pandemic, her income of ¥900,000 (around $9,000) a month has massively decreased, leading her to take up papakatsu.
As reported before, this is a euphemism for compensated dating with older men (sugar daddies). The principle is hardly new but the term has ...
We normally find ourselves writing with glee about Japanese adult video's penchant for parody, in which the industry often reacts very quickly to events and cultural phenomena with pastiche porn par excellence.
But this time, JAV was beaten to the punch by porn makers in Taiwan.
Netflix's Korean hit Squid Game, whose sex scenes we have written about, has now inspired a porn rip-off on the East Asian island nation.
Details are slim, though news about the upcoming porn release is spreading online for the past week or so. With the original drama's themes of punishment and torture, it's ripe ...
We have by now learned to accept the innate contradiction that exists at the heart of Japanese porn: that the country has one of the largest, most varied industries in the world, and yet it also adheres to an interpretation of a century-plus-old obscenity law that says you cannot show genitalia. Hence JAV always has "mosaic" -- pixellation of the penis and vagina.
We have gotten used to this and no longer find it distracting, nor do we think it actually obscures the really important stuff (i.e., the beautiful face and body of the porn star).
Others, though, disagree and there exist ...
The Japanese YouTuber Powerful Rumi (ぱわふるみ), known for her bakunyu "explosive" breasts, is to make her JAV porn debut as Mirai Asumi (明日見未来).
Rumi, whose channel has 140,000 subscribers on YouTube, is known for her videos where largely does various provocative things while dressed in loose-fitting loungewear. She always wears a face mask to protect her identity, though she is clearly hot (masks have the effect of accentuating a woman's eyes, making them popular even pre-pandemic).
Many, if not most, are shot in her home but she also sometimes ventures outdoors, like ...
We recently reported on the porn debut of name-changing idol Sarina Toyama, aka Sarina Haru, and now working in JAV as Meisa Nishimoto.
Apparently still an active member of the idol group Once a Chance (which just celebrated its first live music event), Nishimoto is also a porn star, a new career that she launched with a full-frontal nude photo shoot a few weeks ago.
Soon after, we got confirmation of her first release (STARSBD-462), which comes out via SOD Star later in October.
Now we finally have some proper preview pictures to share.
The release looks like a standard fuck-on-a-bed ...
In early 2020, we shared the news about the porn debut of Rumina Yuki, the former beauty queen at the prestigious Gakushuin University.
It seems that Rumina Yuki, whose real name is Kanako Asakura, continued her career in porn and released more videos as well as appear in many semi-nude and nude shoots for weekly magazines. She eventually became attached to the Prestige label and released a photo book in February of this year.
But now aged 26, Rumina was apparently associating with the wrong kind of men and struggling to cope with her newfound path in porn. As reported by a tabloid ...
A few months ago, we reported on the exciting news that shibari rope bondage master Hajime Kinoko was creating and selling an augmented reality art installation as an NFT.
Well, the NFT boom shows no signs of abating just yet, and others are jumping on the bandwagon.
And by others, we mean none other than top Japanese porn star Yua Mikami, who has announced a new project: your NFT.
To mark her twenty-eighth birthday, August 16, Yua has collaborated with famed Japanese art director Gugi Akiyama and photographer Yasunari Kikuma to take a special photograph.
She will then sell 28 images ...
What to do when your career as a weather forecaster is faltering? Strip off for a weekly magazine, it seems.
Well, it's hard to say what the precise motives are for Mian Shirasaka (白坂みあん), the 21-year-old beauty who holds a qualification as a weather forecaster (often held by weather presenters) and whose meteorological broadcasting career is surely just starting.
But that hasn't stopped her from moving to her backup plan, which was apparently not only trying her hand at gravure but at a "hair nude" full-frontal shoot as well. Talk about jumping in at the deep end.
The shoot is ...
