The former AKB48 idol Satomi Kaneko officially retired last year and we thought it was the last we would see of her.
How wrong we are. Today comes the happy news that Satomi Kaneko is to make her porn debut with the Muteki label -- which specializes in such industry crossover debuts -- and under the name Kiho Kanematsu (金松季歩).
It is common, often for contractual reasons, for idols to change their professional name when transition into porn, or even just when switching management agencies. Kaneko/Kanematsu announced her new professional name about a week ago, along with a new shoot ...
The actress and mature gravure idol Mami Yamasaki is to release her tenth and final photo book.
The photo book, Camellia, will come out in Japan on April 15 from Shogakukan. As announced on February 19, the publication will mark her retirement from gravure after a 20-year career.
Now aged 38 and still unmarried, Mami Yamasaki has got more alluring with age -- and indulged in more explicit photo shoots. She seemed to embrace entering her thirties as the opportunity to strip off for semi-nude shoots.
Mami Yamasaki has aged like a fine wine, getting sexier the older she gets. ...
In mid-January, we wrote about the pleasant surprise that was actress and model Haruka Ayase's return to gravure.
Well, this seems to be a bit of a trend right now: actresses and models who were huge in the 2000s and 2010s are going back to their gravure roots.
Aya Ueto has done a cover shoot for the February 27 issue of Flash, which is now on sale. Though she made her debut as an actress in the year 2000, Ueto worked in gravure before she became a big mainstream star, including as a junior idol.
Ueto now has three children, having giving birth to her most recent one last year, and while ...
We always like to welcome back old friends at Tokyo Kinky. Haruka Ayase's return to gravure, while quite modest, recently put a big smile on our faces.
And so it is with a little squeal of glee that we greet the gravure comeback of Miwako Kakei.
The Terrace House alum was a big gravure idol in the mid-2010s but has been content to plow a trade as a regular model, celebrity, and actress in more recent times. (Her acting gigs have particularly picked up in the past few years, especially for TV dramas.)
For whatever the reason, she has gone back to what she was originally good at, and is ...
Late last year, we showcased the ageless miracle that is Fumie Nakajima, who looks amazing in swimwear even in her mid-fifties.
As they mature, Japanese improve with age like a fine wine. A couple of cases in point: Yoko Kumada and Sayaka Isoyama, who both look stunning in their forties.
If further proof was needed, here's another example.
Making her debut way back in 1994, the gravure idol Yuka Sawachi (沢地優佳) has managed to survived in a competitive industry in which idols are often discarded after a few months of shoots for the weeklies. She actually retired in 2007 and then ...
Haruka Ayase is one of the most famous models and actors in Japan.
Before she made the transition into mainstream acting and modeling, and seemed to appear in almost every TV commercial or brand campaign, Ayase was briefly a gravure idol. She's got the looks for it: a cute, girl-next-door face, slim body, and (by most Japanese standards) large breasts.
This shoot in which she stands alluringly against a window, her body on display except for skimpy swimwear, is one of our all-time favorite gravure pics.
She even once shot some sort of video in a bath, and you can find nude grainy ...
The gravure model and actress Yuka Someya has reached that ripe thirties jukujo age when every role she gets offered is erotic (previous occupants of this type included Mitsu Dan and Minami Hashimoto).
In the first episode of TV drama Are kara Doshita, she plays a woman who is having an affair with a securities company.
Someya is playing to type here as a seductive woman who has an affair. It seems the way into someone like that's heart (and panties) is to arrive at her day bearing an expensive gift.
This being mainstream TV and not a streamer, there's no actual nudity on display. ...
Around this time last year, we introduced the Netflix Korean drama series Somebody and it's amazing sex scenes, especially featuring the older, decidedly sultry Lee Eun-woo.
She is a veteran of both the industry and these pages, having done nude scenes in the controversial movie Moebius and (in Japan) an incredibly sexy and explicit scene in Kabukicho Love Hotel.
As we noted in our post last year, Lee Eun-woo is older now -- she's 43 -- and performs under the name Lee Na-ra.
In 2019, she also appeared in the comedy-drama How to Live in This World about middled-aged couples' sex lives and ...
Last week, we highlighted the stunning, athletic beauty (and body) of 55-year-old Fumie Nakajima. Many of you seemed to agree with our assessment.
Today, it's time for Yoko Kumada.
Regular readers will recognize the name.
The 41-year-old gravure idol is now divorced (after alleged domestic violence and her suspected adultery) and has since worked at a hostess club (alright, it was essentially a publicity stunt for the club but the thought of Kumada serving us drinks had us in a tizzy).
These days, Kumada is making her money through image videos and her latest DVD comes out later this ...
Choose experience over youth, people say, and this certainly applies to experience in bed.
But how much experience is enough? How about mid-fifties?
As Fumie Nakajima is proving, you can still look ravishing at that age -- and there are plenty of people who will pay good money to see it.
The actress and model is releasing her latest gravure image video later this month. The 90-minute DVD shows off 55-year-old Fumie Nakajima's slim and healthy beach body.
Fumie Nakajima, who is married but has no children, has released similar DVDs every year since at least 2018, beginning when she ...
