How much do porn stars earn? It's a gray area, though JAV is a huge industry and clearly the main stars do well for themselves.
There are often rumors about exceptional fees when high-profile women from other industries make the crossover into porn. Some of these are no doubt are just conjecture.
Back in 2013, the actress Yoko Kamon made her porn debut after a career of acting in the 1990s and then hair nude full-frontal shoots (not one but two nude photo books) in the early 2010s.
Then in her early thirties, Kamon was not a huge star but there was a fair amount of interest in her adult ...
Probably the most highly anticipated (and hyped) porn debut in the industry right now is that of Unpai, the wildly popular Japanese TikToker.
Known for her bust, "duck mouth," and sexy videos, Unpai is making a (supposedly) one-off foray into adult video with a release from S1 No. 1 Style.
The 171-minute video (SSIS-00312) by the 27-year-old, whose real name is Sayaka Ito, came out digitally last week and on physical formats yesterday.
From the look of the first images we have seen, it seems pretty conventional. But then, who needs gimmicks and flashy locations when you have a body (and ...
Former porn star Saki Otsuka has reached a settlement with an adult toys maker over the sale of products featuring her.
Though seven years have now passed since Otsuka -- once a top performer in the JAV industry -- retired, "new works" continued to appear on the market and be sold without her consent. Otsuka had sued, seeking damages (and, of course, to set a precedent for other ex-performers).
The legal challenge has taken two and a half years, but was apparently concluded in January, reports Bengo 4.
Otsuki first learned that "new" products were being released with her name and image in ...
In August last year, we wrote about a stunning nude shoot featuring former Olympic swimmer Miku Kojima (小嶋美紅).
That seriously whetted our appetites, of course, and we were expecting what has now been confirmed: Kojima has made her porn debut.
The one-time Olympic swimmer for Japan appears in a release from Soft on Demand, out from February 23 domestically.
As is common, the 21-year-old has adopted a performer name: Saki Shinkai (新海咲).
Also as is common for such a debut, the SOD Star production (code not yet announced) is a clear nod at her past (and appeal) with a ...
The 26-year-old I-cup gravure idol Sakura Ninomiya (二宮さくら) is making the switch to porn, joining top industry label Moodyz as Sakura Mita (三田サクラ). And it's not a one-off.
As Sakura Ninomiya, she released a bunch of image videos from 2016 onward and seemed set for a big, busty future in gravure. In 2019, she released a photo book.
Now as Sakura Mita, having left her agency of five years at the end of June this year, she released her first AV (midv00008) on December 7. Unsurprisingly, the publicity for the 150-minute video focuses squarely on her amazing ...
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 ...
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 ...
Like us, you may have noticed that Japanese porn star and stripper Urara Uraraka (うららか麗) had been quieter of late, both in terms of AV releases and her social media output.
In fact, she had retired from adult video and the nominal reason came out on November 3: she's now pregnant, due to give birth very soon.
And she's sensibly capitalizing on her new physical circumstances to make a nude photo book with shots of her pregnant body, which she is selling to fans online. Given how many tattoos she famously has on her body, we can only imagine how hot she now looks while ...
Comedian Sanma Akashiya is up to his old tricks again, if reports in the Japanese media are to be believed. Known for his success with the ladies even in his fifties and sixties, Akashiya has previously been linked with porn stars Eririka Katagiri and Makoto Yuuki.
Now comes a report that Akashiya, who is 66, took out porn star Kana Momonogi for dinner, ostensibly to "celebrate her success." He was an admirer and got connected with the 24-year-old through a personal contact.
The result was an intimate dinner between just the two of them for two and a half hours. So if you're rich, famous, ...
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 ...
