Which Japanese adult video stars look like other Japanese celebrities? Some Japanese porn performers have a striking resemblance to well-known models, idols, actresses, and other celebrities. This is sometimes just coincidence but the likeness is also often ruthlessly exploited in the marketing for certain releases, even to the extent of the choice of performer name. We listed a few examples below. Mitsuki Takahata and Minamo. Minami Minegishi and Asuka Momose. Kanna Hashimoto and Kanon Kanade (and something tells us that the marketing department was fully aware of the ...

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Released in late 2023 in Japan, A Spoiling Rain stars the up-and-coming Honami Sato, top male actors Go Ayano and Tasuku Emoto (lucky husband of Sakura Ando), and porn star Minamo. Honami Sato previously did very revealing lesbian sex scenes in Ride or Die with co-star Kiko Mizuhara, who seemed on a mission to prove she could act by revealing as much of her body as possible. This might have inspired her casting in A Spoiling Rain, since the film features an explicit lesbian sex scene with Minamo. The movie is about a pink film (sexploitation) director, a screenwriter, and their lover. The ...

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The top Japanese porn star Minamo has appeared in an advertising campaign for leading Japanese lingerie brand Ravijour. She is modeling various holidays-themed underwear items that are now available from Ravijour stores and online. She is also holding a promotional meet-and-greet event for the brand in Shinjuku in January, where you even get a signed Minamo-Ravijour mug. We adore Minamo and she looks ravishing in the Ravijour lingerie, which comes in an erotic red. In keeping with the "holiday collection" theme, the lingerie is festively colored. A Christmas campaign for a ...

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Not satisfied with the recent rush of gravure idols' photo books? Even the ones like Minami Yamada's that are semi-nude? Then you need something more reliable. Minamo burst into our lives in 2021 when she made the switch from a brief stint in gravure (where she worked as Shizuku Taiyo from 2019) to porn, and hasn't looked back since. One of the most popular adult video performers working in the industry today, she is currently attacked to porn production company T-Powers continues to release JAV titles (we count something like twice as many releases in 2022 as her debut year). Her first ...

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Minamo is moving fast to capitalize on the big splash she made with her recent porn debut. After switching from gravure, where she was known as Shizuku Taiyo, the angel-faced beauty has rapidly attracted a following with her well-publicized first release for Soft on Demand. As often the case, another video was quickly shot -- she was probably contracted from the start to make at least a couple of productions -- and put on the release slate. While no full preview images are available yet, the aptly titled "Ecstasy" (1stars386) comes out from SOD Create on July 8 and the cover alone is ...

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It's one of the most hotly anticipated porn debuts of the year -- and now we have some more preview images to pour over until the video comes out. First she appeared, then disappeared, then reappeared. Shizuku Taiyo burst onto the scene as a gravure idol in late 2019, only to promptly vanish. Thank the Shinto gods that they saw fit to guide her nascent career in a new direction. She has relaunched herself as an adult video star now called Minamo. As we reported last week, her debut comes out on June 10 from Soft on Demand. The release (1stars371) is a three-hour epic and we can now share ...

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A debut and a disappearance. This is a curious tale. The beautiful gravure idol Shizuku Taiyo (太陽しずく), whose name literally means "drop sun" or "trickle sun," broke into the mainstream with her industry debut in autumn 2019. She graced the covers of Young King magazine for the September 24 and October 28 editions, and a 15-page spread in the latter. But then the 19-year-old basically vanished. While it is customary for models and idols to change their professional names (especially ahead of a porn debut) and, in the process, for previous social media channels to be deleted, why ...

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