Way back in March last year, we wrote a brief write-up about Akari Fukunaga's nude sex scenes in the movie Hand (2022).
It's a literary pink (sexploitation) film, based on a novel and part of Nikkatsu's revived Roman Porno series.
We've finally got around to taking a closer look at the film and we're glad we did, because it contains several more sex scenes, including one with former musician Natsuko Obuchi.
The titular hand is Akari Fukunaga's as she masturbates with a sex toy.
There's a great sex scene in which she and her lover start having sex on a sofa. He sucks her small Japanese ...
Early last year, we reported on the lawsuit by former porn star Kaho Shibuya over the leaking of her past content.
What happens to your work after you retire is a matter of concern for adult video performers, who have historically lacked control over how production companies and distributors make money off their bodies. It has been common for studios to continue releasing older content in anthologies long after a performer has officially stopped working in the industry.
A new lawsuit at Tokyo District Court shows another side to this issue. The stripper Miyuki Ariga (有賀美雪) is suing ...
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 ...
We spend a lot of time on this blog looking at the latest developments in gravure models, music idols, Japanese porn, and general sex- and adult-related news.
But it's occasionally good to take a step back in time and explore the older content that's out there.
We have been looking at an obscure 1989 film with the improbable yet enticing title of E-Cup Honban II: Hojuku. It stars the well-endowed Satsuki Fuji (藤沙月).
The 59-minute softcore porn (pink) film has multiple nude sex scenes.
The best ones include a bed scene in which her lover kisses her amazing breasts while fingering ...
The beautiful Akari Fukunaga (福永朱梨) is a relatively unknown, 28-year-old Japanese actress whose credits include The Real Thing (2019) and She Is Alone (2021).
In 2022, she had a starring role in the film Hand, a pink movie in Nikkatsu's revived Roman Porno series (made to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the series), though based on a literary source (a novel by a prize-winning female writer, Nao-Cola Yamazaki).
Fukunaga plays 25-year-old Sawako, who has a thing for watching and photographing older men, but starts an affair with a young coworker nonetheless. She must slowly learn ...
The fantastically titled I Want You, Nana-chan, Give Me a Bite was released in Japan in 2021 and stars porn star Yura Kano and musician (and ex-AV star) Toko Namiko. After its quiet release in just a few theaters, we are finally catching up with it now.
Directed by Hideo Jojo (who also made the very explicit Believers starring Yui Kitamura), we're not sure the 70-minute film is technically classified as a pink movie but it bears many of the hallmarks of sexploitation.
The low-budget film is about the eponymous Nana (played by Yura Kano), who has to move back home after being fired for ...
We came across an interesting interview with pink movie actress Chisa Hasegawa (長谷川千紗) in the excellent Substack newsletter Tokyo Calling. Here are some highlights.
As regular readers will know well, pink movies (pinku eiga) are softcore porn or sexploitation films that were immensely popular in Japan in the 1960s and 1970s, but were decimated by the rise of hardcore adult video in the 1980s and 1990s (as chronicled in The Naked Director). Nonetheless, the industry is still going, surviving thanks to the dedication of certain performers and producers, and eking out a tiny margin ...
The relatively little-known actress Kurumi Nakayama (中山来未) has several nude scenes in the aptly titled Naked Angel: The Red Room, a film released in Japan in 2021 and based on a short story by Edogawa Ranpo.
There are several sex scenes, including one in a public restroom, and other scenes that apparently required Nakayama to be nude, though the final one has a bloody end involving a pair of scissors. The slim and slinky, modestly chested Nakayama shows off a lot of her body in these scenes, including a shot of her anus as she leans over her lover in the cowgirl ...
It's official. Kumi Takiuchi has replaced Mugi Kadowaki as the most interesting female actor in Japan right now who is willing to do nude scenes.
Though some will do nude sex scenes at the start of their careers (case in point, Yuriko Yoshitaka) or if trying to reboot their careers (case in point, Yuka Masuda), most actresses in Japan (or at least, their agencies) stick to tamer roles.
Not so Kumi Takiuchi, who has already done impressive sex scenes in Side Job and It Feels So Good.
Her latest role is in the movie Ura Aka: L'Adventure, a small independent film that did not gain much ...
There's that cliche about aging like a fine wine but for some women, it really is true.
A model like Nana Eikura, for instance, we can remember from her early career when she was a teenaged model. Cute, for sure, but she is way hotter now that she is a married young mother in her thirties.
Taking things (quite) a bit further (chronologically speaking), we have just found out that Narimi Arimori (有森也実) is to release her first photo book in 19 years.
At the ripe age of 53, the actor poses in lingerie for her fourth photo book, "prayer," which comes out in Japan on October 22.
We ...
