We recently introduced the great Netflix drama series The Naked Director, which charts the rise and fall of adult video legend Toru Muranishi during the 1980s and 1990s.
Now we want to look in more detail at some of the sex and nudity it depicts.
The choice of Netflix to show the series is an apt one, since then it is now bound by the strange rules of mainstream Japanese broadcasting that forbids actual nudity. Being a streaming channel, Netflix can do the subject matter justice by allowing some actual bare flesh on screen.
One of the most naked is the gravure idol Ruri Shinato -- long a ...
We previously introduced the legendary porn impressario Toru Muranishi when a documentary about him came out in Japan -- specifically, the last gasp of his major releases when he tried to create one of the most ambitious porn films ever shot.
The pioneer of POV shots and arrested several times over the years, Toru Muranishi is perhaps the most famous adult video director and producer from the 1980s and 1990s. That fame is set to reach new audiences with the release of a new Japanese Netflix drama starring Takayuki Yamada.
The Naked Director charts the rise of Muranishi's porn production ...
We don't seem to see enough of slinky gravure idol Saki Suzuki these days. Her gravure career might well have lost some of its luster of late but her recent appearance in a TV drama episode has more than made up for her absence from the pages of the weekly magazines.
In the most recent episode of Iyasaretai Otoko (Man Who Wants to be Healed) on TV Tokyo, a male character stumbles upon Suzuki's characters on all fours.
Perhaps for reasons that don't need explaining, he immediately hallucinates her scrubbing the floor in her underwear.
The grimmer reality is that Suzuki's character is a ...
Only a small handful of former idols from AKB48 or its bevy of sister groups have managed to establish themselves in gravure, acting, or general entertainment, though a fair few have also branched out into porn instead.
Whatever they do or don't do, it's hard to argue that their appeal isn't based on their looks. And if you've got it, flaunt it.
One recent Japanese TV show certainly seems to call a spade a spade in this regard.
It got together former AKB48 idols for what was essentially an excuse to make them show off their busts and bodies for the camera.
The three top ladies -- Natsuki ...
Aya Omasa and Mariko Shinoda are shown smooching in the recently broadcast third episode of the NHK television drama series Mistresses.
The lingering lesbian kiss scene apparently lasted 40 seconds. Fans were on hand to count them all. Mariko seduces Aya by stroking her face and going in for the kiss. Aya then reciprocates passionately.
It's pure bliss to watch.
The series (a remake of a British show from the late 2000s) also stars hot jukujo actresses Kyoko Hasegawa and Miki Mizuno as well as Hyunri and gravure model Miwako Kakei.
Fans of Aya Omasa are surely already ...
After doing a "hair nude" full-frontal shoot last year, we wondered where the gravure idol and actress Bambi Watanabe would go next.
It seems she went to TV Tokyo and for a visually tame but nonetheless sensual sex scene in a late-night drama series.
In episode two of Kabukicho Bengonin Rinka (Kabukicho Attorney Rinka), which is about a female lawyer working among hostesses, Bambi is show stripping off in a love hotel room to reveal her largest chest, albeit hidden within a bra or under her arms. An old dude looks on with obvious interest. He then has sex with her, even though she is ...
Ah, Japanese television. Not the place to go for cutting-edge drama or provocative news stories. But it is the place to go for bizarre shows that tread a fine line between porn and... well, we're not quite sure what.
Case in point is this show called Zennihon Waga Ie no Ofuro Osho (全日本わが家のお風呂大賞, All-Japan Our Bath Grand Prize) on the streaming channel FOD broadcast on March 27th and apparently introducing bathing spots around Japan.
The actual point of this show seems purely to let viewers leer at the body of such ladies as Natsumi Hirajima, who looks frankly ...
On the NTV show Inu mo kuwanai, former AKB48 idol Miki Nishino competed with the actor Kazusa Okuyama to see whose body is the "best."
Whereas Miki Nishino has a slightly curvy butt (by Japanese idol standards, at any rate), Kazusa Okuyama is athletic and sporty -- a very popular type among Japanese models and female actors right now, perhaps influenced by all the 2020 hype.
She shares selfies of her toned body on social media -- something we also spotted the gravure idol Yume Hayashi do this recently.
Miki Nishino left AKB48 in spring 2017 and, possibly due to her body, was not apparently ...
Iconiq first burst onto the scene in 2010 when she came out of nowhere to front a major advertising campaign for a beauty brand. Her cropped hair and stunning complexion immediately made her a household name in Japan.
Her music career fizzled out and the Japanese-Korean model-singer then promptly disappeared, apparently due to issues with her agency.
Iconiq previously attempted a comeback with a semi-nude photo shoot under the new name Yumi Ito (actually one of many names she has used in her career), but nothing much happened subsequently (unless we missed something).
We are happy to ...
The actress and model Reina Triendl, who is one of the many cute haafu that dominate Japanese pop culture, has stripped for a sex scene in TV drama Perfect Crime on TV Asahi.
The half-Austrian, half-Japanese 27-year-old is shown in bed with a male partner (who has a prominent wedding ring on his finger) in the current drama.
Don't get overly excited. The scene is relatively tame. You don't get to see any actual nudity, but if you like bare backs you are in for a treat. The kissing is chaste and, if anything, rather unappealing, but Triendl looks pretty and alluring throughout ...
