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 ...
It seems a long time since current or past members of AKB48 have made a real impression on the public at large. The power of the supergroup has waned significantly and its members are rarely seen in major advertising campaigns like they were in the 2000s and early 2010s, though we still try to follow what certain present and former idols are up to these days.
Ayaka Umeda is now 33 years old. She left AKB48 in 2016 after 10 years with the group, and has since established herself as an actor. What a great age, and it really shows.
Her second photo book, "Etude," is out now, and here are a few ...
We love a good comeback story.
After some time quietly doing her own thing on YouTube and Instagram, Yukina Kinoshita (木下優樹菜) has returned to the mainstream entertainment world.
As a kind of de facto apology for her recent scandals, the 34-year-old mother of two is releasing a nude photo book.
"CORRECT" is published by Futabasha and released on March 17. It's being publicized heavily as "nude," though the preview images we have seen so far are only semi-nude (in the classic "hand bra" pose, or tebura). We will update with more pictures when they become available. Hopefully this ...
We already blogged about Juri Kawasaki's amazing nude sex scenes in the new Netflix Japanese drama Fishbowl Wives.
Kawasaki is a much lesser-known actor (at the moment), which makes her and her agency more willing to do such scenes. We originally speculated that the big names in the series like Kyoko Hasegawa and Ryoko Shinohara would not do nude scenes in the adultery-themed drama. We were half right, it seems.
Fishbowl Wives does feature a nude sex scene with Kyoko Hasegawa, herself recently divorced.
It's not anywhere near as explicit as Juri Kawasaki's breasts-baring/sucking scenes, ...
One of the regular themes of this blog is the after-lives of gravure idols, models, adult video performers, and so on. What happens after they retire? What can do they do after their time -- often only brief -- in the limelight?
We had Reiko Nagaoka (永岡怜子) on our radar for a while in this regard, because she presents an interesting example. And then her story took an intriguing twist recently and we felt it was time to share.
She first worked in gravure in the 2010s under a different name: Una Shirakawa (白川卯奈).
Shen then switched to Reiko Nagaoka in around 2016, ...
Fans were very pleased by Maki Goto's new photo book, "ramus," in which the 36-year-old former Morning Musume idol rewarded those of us who had waited long for her comeback by posing nude.
Alright, let's be honest, there was also a bit of disappointment. As great as mother-of-two jukujo Maki looks, she was ultimately "only" revealing her naked butt and side boob. And as fans will know, she did as much already 10 years ago.
Fortunately for anyone disappointed, a netizen has stepped in to take things further and apply their photo-editing skills to the very good purpose of revealing Maki ...
It took her a while but former SKE48 idol Kanako Hiramatsu (平松可奈子) has finally got herself a solo gravure shoot.
In the December 20 issue of Weekly Playboy, the 30-year-old poses for a sexy spread more than a decade after her debut.
They say that good things are worth waiting for and we think she looks even better than before. The shoot might just have planted the seeds of a gravure comeback. Alternative shots from it will be turned into a digital photo book.
Kanakana was a member of SKE48 from 2008 to 2013. In the years since, she has graduated college and started her ...
We wrote a few weeks ago about the exciting news that music idol Maki Goto is making a comeback (after taking a break to get married and have two kids -- and allegedly having an affair).
The former Morning Musume member has relaunched her music career with live concerts, and is building her profile and fandom again through an active YouTube output.
Even better, she's releasing a photo book, "ramus," on November 29 from Kodansha. It's her first in 10 years.
And from the previews we've seen, "ramus" clearly harks back to her time as a girl-next-door cutie who once did lingerie shoots and a ...
We recently wrote about Urara Uraraka's new "maternity nude" photo book, citing the precedent for such pregnancy shoots in Japan among celebrities and idols. One of the examples we mentioned was Angelica Michibata, who posed for a fairly modest (technically non-nude) one in 2018.
Now Angelica Michibata is back in the news with reports that she has divorced her husband, whom she married in late 2017 after she fell pregnant.
This is a big deal only because it would seem to bring to an end an unfortunate -- to say the least -- chapter of her life in which her ex-husband was arrested for ...
The Lower House election in Japan was held on Sunday -- yes, Halloween. The populace elected a bunch of ghouls and monsters to represent them.
One person who failed in their first bid to win a seat was the former gravure idol Chisato Morishita. Now aged 40 and still looking great, Morishita was trying to get elected in Miyagi as a candidate backed by the conservative LDP (who won the election overall). She got 61,410 votes (the ultimate winner got 81,033 votes, securing their ninth continuous term).
As we reported earlier in the year, she has been campaigning since the spring. (In Japan, ...
