Now available on Amazon Prime in Japan, No Longer Human was released in 2019 and stars Shun Oguri.
The R15-rated film is ostensibly not based on the eponymous novel by Osamu Dazai but on his actual life, particularly his lovers, though the originally novel is also autobiographical.
Fumi Nikaido plays the protagonist's latest lover, a young war widow called Tomie Yamazaki. She has a sex scene where she shows off her breasts, which Dazai ravenously licks and kisses. This follows Nikaido's recent appearance in River's Edge and its nude scenes.
Dazai would eventually drown himself ...
Japanese actress and singer Erika Sawajiri was in the news recently after her drug bust in late 2019, the latest in a long line of scandals and ups and downs for the celebrity.
The 33-year-old has officially retired from the industry after receiving a suspended sentence in February and we doubt we will be seeing her back any time soon, so taboo are drugs in Japan in spite of their prevalence in the entertainment world. At the time, Sawajiri was about to star in the annual Taiga drama on NHK, which would have been her biggest mainstream success since her comeback.
Another intriguing ...
Erika Sawajiri is no stranger to almost shedding her clothes, not to mention acting like a spoilt and uptight bitch.
It's never clear how much is true and how much is a cultivated personality, though.
Her recently released film Helter-Skelter contains some glimpses of the real Erika, by which we mean her flesh!
It's pretty tame by many people's standards, especially Korean actresses', but it's still a nice way to start your day.
Saying that, apparently during the making of the film they had a lot of trouble extracting a convincing performance from Erika. During the sex scenes ...
She's back. The stuck-up pouty lady. The sexy haafu. The one and only, Erika Sawajiri has returned to acting. After her singing career could have hardly have been called a success, Erika has decided to go back to something she was quite good at.
It's not quite her glory days of yore, when she was offered major acting roles but it's a (re)start. Her new drama will be shown on the mobile phone television channel, Bee TV, marking her first acting role in four years after her ignominious exit from the Japanese entertainment world.
The drama tells the story of two characters with ...
Sometimes it seems that every TV show and every advertisement in Japan features a haafu (half-Japanese, half something else person).
Well, yes, but a lot of these are fairly banal, plain people whose only real talent is having slightly larger eyes and more ambiguous skin. However, I want to introduce you to the haafu who put the "sex" back into "sexy".
Drum roll please. We now present The Sexiest Haafu Ladies!
Melody Yoko Reilly (b. 1988)
Half Irish American. She seems to be a lingerie model among other things. Not sure about much else, but she looks damned ...
It was just the other day that we blogged about sexy singer Takako Uehara getting her knickers in a twist about being accused of mafia links.
Is any sexy celebrity in Japan safe from the shadow of the mob? It seems not. Now it's the turn of Erika Sawajiri, long a troubled and tempestruous celebrity. Erika is still a mere sprig of a gal at 25 but has already retired from the entertainment industry and returned once. But now a magazine has dug up and published photos of an 18-year old Erika in a Roppongi club with an allegedly yakuza-connected guy.
Half French, half ...
We blogged about the latest raunchy Erika Sawajiri pics a few weeks back. People weren't shocked by Erika being almost naked (she does that a lot) -- but that she was posing a foreign man!
Now we find this video of the photo session -- which is even sexier! And there's not just one foreign man but multiple ones.
It had over 700,000 views when I looked...and I can see ...
A favorite of this blog, Erika Sawajiri's latest publicity stunt is a photo session featuring the hattoushin bijin semi-nude... and with a foreign man, no less!
And he she is in an interracial threesome!
Personally I think at least one of the guys looks Japanese but the news is all saying it's a gaijin (foreigner). Either way, is Erika the most over-rated idol in Japan or ...
Saturday was another big day for our favorite starlet of the moment, Erika Sawajiri.
She performed a new song, her first gig in over two and a half years. "Treasure" is an upcoming release and Erika (24) showcased it at the Girls Award 2010.
Apparently available for free download from the actress/model/singer's website until the end of this month, we haven't actually heard the tune ourselves. However, we have been getting an eyeful of the clothes she was wearing... and I think you'll agree that she chose her costume wisely!
Erika, nicknamed Erika-sama ("Her Highness ...
Anyway even remotely interested in Japanese geinoujin or models can't have failed to see the big news this week: Erika Sawajiri has told her much-older husband that she wants a divorce. By email.
Yes, apparently Tsuyoshi Takashiro is completely stumped as to why his beautiful wife has suddenly had a change of heart. He heard it first by email and since then has been getting updates through her website announcements and the press.
We blogged here about Erika's comeback a few weeks ago. Half-French Erika had legions of fans until her pride got the better of her, most infamously at ...
