Our lovely lady this week is Mai Sasaki (佐々木麻衣).
The curvy, sultry girl was born in 1988 and though she doesn't enjoy the front-page fame of her colleagues in the Gravure world, she has built up a quiet following of men eager to see more of her body.
See previous Japanese idols of the ...
Today on Tokyo Kinky we wanted to introduce you to a certain phenoenmon. Ugly idols.
Not all Gravure idols are hot in the conventional sense. That may not surprise fans of chika idols or groups like AKB48, where in fact most of the girls are very ordinary looking. (And also in pop music -- take a look at Perfume! Only one of the three girls is even slightly attractive.)
But this is something else. Here the girls are almost deliberately picked for their, well, bad looks.
So let's take a gander at these beauties...
Kaori Kanzaki
Sae Kamiya
Reina Inoue
Rena ...
If something seems too good to be true, it typically is.
Patrons of a hostess club in Hong Kong may have thought their companions serving them overpriced drinks were going to be super hot, given the images that advertised the ladies to be found inside...
In fact, keen-eyed visitors to the K-Pressure may even have been forgiven for thinking that the girls in the staff list included Japanese Gravure idols Yuri Morishita and Yuu Tejima, given that their photos adorned the outside of the bar.
While it is well-known that certain minor Gravure idols moonlight as prostitutes and hostesses, or are ...
The Japanese geinokai (entertainment industry) has several open secrets: that idols have to sleep with their handlers in order to get ahead, as revealed by former stars; that drugs are rampant; and that plastic surgery is also common.
It's rare for a model to break the conspiracy of silence about any of these. When Miss Japan model Biwon admitted that she had had some work done, there was much shock over the revelations.
Plastic surgery is notoriously widespread in Korea but, despite Japanese people's admiration for Korean women's beauty, the "fake" aspect of this is used to denigrate ...
Our lovely idol this week is the sumptuous, slinky, smiling Eri Wada (和田絵莉).
Born in 1989 in Hyogo, west Japan, Eri Wada has been gracing our lives since her debut in ...
Eriko Sato, the actress who was once also known for very provocative photo shoots
Now 31, Sato's career isn't so stellar any more and she is still unmarried. So sensibly she has turned back to her roots and released another photo book of sexy shots for her male fans.
With an F-cup bust and so-called "perfect body", the tall Eriko did the shoot in Hawaii -- her first such Gravure-style one in nine years. This is the only image available right now.
"I've heard my bikini shots are very popular with middle-aged men. Maybe it’s because I hit the age where they can imagine me as ...
A 31-year-old man has been arrested for pretending to be a comedy duo's manager in early March and approaching gravure model Momoko Tani (28) in a department store.
There she tried on some clothes and he put on a show of being helpful.
"It's dangerous so I'll carry your bag for you," he told her, whereupon he then stole her bag and went off.
The comedy duo, Bananaman, is now very popular in Japan and no doubt the suspect believed that claiming to be their manager would be a ticket to all sorts of fun activities he normally could not do.
Ironically, Bananaman's actual manager is a woman ...
Last autumn a sensual ad for Glico's sweet Dororich drink with five Gravure idols was a big hit.
Glico had such a good time with the curvy ladies that they made a new one!
This time the five lovely ladies are...
Anna Konno (b. 1989)
Ayaka Sayama (b. 1993)
Asuka Kishi (b. 1991)
Mitsuki Hoshina (b. 1996)
Arisa (b. 1989)
It's great to see Gravure idols getting mainstream exposure like this. More of this ...
Boys, time to despair. The pages of your tabloids won't be filled with images of sexy Gravure model Yumi Sugimoto for a while.
The top sexpot has come down with acute pyelonephritis, meaning she has to take a few weeks off work and recover.
Recently Yumi has been working more in the mainstream, including a role in a musical till earlier this month and even a supporting part in a NHK period drama in 2012. She also appears in the tokusatsu TV show, Engine Sentai Go-onger.
Get well soon, ...
With fame and sudden popularity comes unwanted side-effects.
Curvy over-thirty sexpot Mitsu Dan is not afraid of stripping off and revealing all, but she has acquired some undesirable fans among her legions of admirers.
After her home was shown on a TV program, she has had men apparently hanging around in her neighborhood.
Most celebrities and idols move to luxury condos when they hit the big time, but Dan (32) has continued to live in her modest apartment since her break happened almost over night and she hasn't had time to catch up with her new-found lifestyle.
She ...
