A few weeks ago, we reported on the engagement and pregnancy of ex-porn star Nanami Kawakami.
Being an adult video star is hard enough with the long shoots, physical pressures, and social stigma, but the job also really affects your ability to lead a regular life outside of work. This includes, of course, settling down with a special someone -- if that's your choice -- and perhaps even having kids.
Anri Sakaguchi, whose colorful life has encompassed a stint in AV, has recently announced her divorce after just two months of marriage.
News reports last year said that former JAV star Nao ...
Toru Muranishi is probably Japanese porn's most notorious director and producer in. For years, a mythic figurehead of the excesses of the early years of the industry who lost it all, he is now known to audiences globally thanks to the Netflix show The Naked Director.
We have all dreamed of having sex with as many women as Muranishi has. Now you can, sort of.
The Nice Cup series of two onaholes recreates the sexual experiences of the legendary lover.
Four years in the making, the two cup-style pocket pussy toys are based on the vaginas of Muranishi's 7,000 conquests.
The two ...
As we continue to watch the new season of the Netflix show The Naked Director and its galvanic portrayal of the 1980s and 1990s Japanese adult video industry, porn shoots have been on our mind even more than usual.
In behind-the-scenes photos of porn shoots, we are amazed by so many things.
How many staff are involved and how, if you'll excuse the pun, hard the work it is, getting the right angles and lighting. In these corona times, as two pictures recently shared by the AV director Daiki Kato (Samoari) demonstrate, they also have to wear masks (except the ...
We recently shared the surprisingly sensitive and insightful interview by Nobita with porn star Roku Kuroi.
Here is one that Nobita did with the wife of Shimiken.
As regular readers will know, Shimiken is the most prolific and hard-working male adult video performer in Japan. There are actually only a handful of such male stars in the industry and his services are called upon daily for shoots with the biggest and best ladies in AV.
He married Haruka Ito in 2019, as we reported at the time (it is, we should note, a common-law marriage). Writer and blogger Haruka Ito (aka Hachu) is a kind of ...
Shimiken (Ken Shimizu) has announced his marriage to the blogger and writer Haruka Ito after apparently dating for four years.
The announcement came online on July 15th with a tweeted picture of the happy couple.
Probably the best-known and most famous male adult video actor, the 38-year-old muscular performer has appeared in thousands of porn releases, in the process having sex with literally thousands of women. A tiny selection of his conquests include Melo Imai, Yua Mikami, and Shoko Takasaki. He also once opened a "poo curry" restaurant in Tokyo, which almost sounds like something ...
We're almost two years late to this (hey, we were busy blogging other stuff!) but we stumbled upon this funny video of our favorite male AV star, Shimiken, trying out a special "double spiral" condom.
The video is produced by G-Project, which is an adult toy brand and who made the new condom.
It's only in Japanese but you should be able to follow along regardless of your language ability.
The best bit is when he tries on the condom and we see AV actress Michiru Morisaki helping a blindfolded Shimiken try the condom, and then Shimiken has to jerk off to stay erect. We also love ...
Japanese male porn performer Shimiken (aka Ken Shimizu) isn't satisfied with getting to have sex with gorgeous women like Shoko Takasaki and Yua Mikami every day of the week. (Yes, every single day.)
Nor is he bruised after opening a short-lived "poo curry" restaurant. How much money did he lose in that venture? Better go and screw some more ladies, Ken!
Now the AV star has made his own t-shirt. And it's awesome.
The character on the front, Onassy, is clearly meant to be a phallic, onanistic version of Funassyi, the wildly popular mascot character from Funabashi, Chiba.
It's ...
All good things must come to an end. While we're not sure if this counts as a "good" thing, we are a little sad to report that one of the funnest stories of the year is reaching its conclusion.
Porn actor Shimiken (Ken Shimizu), who has bedded thousands of women over the course of his career, started a new enterprise earlier this year.
Nothing unusual in that -- except this one was a "poo curry" restaurant, serving fecal-like dishes in toilet-shaped bowls. Quite a concept!
Located in a residential district in Setagaya ward, Tokyo, Curry Shop Shimizu has plenty of unusual ...
The fact that Shimiken, Japan's currently most prolific male adult performer, has opened a restaurant is news-worthy in its own right.
That he has opened a curry restaurant that serves "poo" curry makes our jaws drop. WTF?!
Well, Shimiken (Ken Shimizu) is the owner, so don't expect him to be behind the pots and pans (he's too busy screwing dozens of women a week).
He's now opened Curry Shop Shimizu in a residential district of Setagaya in Tokyo, so we can't say how crowded it's going to be, even regardless of the menu.
Shimiken is famed for lamenting the lack of male porn ...
It would surely be the most-wanted job for any man in Japan.
But incredible as it sounds, there is a shortage of male actors in Japanese porn (JAV).
"There are only 70 or so male adult video actors," Japan's biggest male porn star Shimiken tweeted the other day. "That's less than the number of Bengal tigers." He said that the ones doing most of the work are even less -- just 30.
We've always known that there was a relatively small number of men working professionally and full-time in the industry. But we didn't know the men themselves were worried.
Here is Shimiken and some ...
