Tea Friends is a new Japanese film about sex services for the elderly.
A former sex worker called Mana (Rei Okamoto) runs the eponymous service, which she considers more like a community of "tea girls" who sleep with older men.
The clients answer vague ads asking for "tea friends" and this is how they meet the women involved with the service, who tend to be mature too. If this sounds twee, it's actually realistic -- we wrote about a similar service before.
Inevitably, their encounters involves trips to love hotels but the film suggests there's more to this than just sex. Also inevitably, ...
As Japan's population ages and there are ever more people over sixty, one of the challenges for the AV industry is how to adjust for a changing demographic.
One of the results is the growth of porn aimed at seniors. Expect porn starring older men and jukujo to become a major proportion of the market in the near future. (A knock-on effect is also that more and more prostitution services are catering specifically to the older customer, and that a quarter of love hotel users are over 65.)
Unlike many other places, the porn industry has not suffered the precipitous decline in DVD sales and ...
The world media has once again taken an interest in Japanese pornography -- in particular, porn made for and starring seniors.
We previously noted the press attention lavished on silver porn star Yasue Tomita and veteran male performer Shigeo Tokuda.
Doing the rounds of various overseas media outlets this time is an Associated Foreign Press article about the retirement of Maori Tezuka.
After a decade of peeling off for X-rated movies, a Japanese porn actress famous for being the country's oldest has called it quits -- at the ripe old age of 80.
Maori Tezuka, a former opera ...
Another week, another sex-themed article about Japan gets written and hawked around.
AFP has written an article about Japan's "silver porn" industry and the wire service has sold it to countless other publications around the world.
We've seen these pieces before, such as in The Guardian.
And of course, it's hardly news.
There has been a vibrant silver porn for a long time, featuring a host of stars like Yumi Kazama and Shigeo Tokuda. And it's not just performers: the over-sixty crowd is very active in watching porn, frequenting love hotels, and also visiting soaplands and ...
Japanese police have bagged the latest major criminal in the land. An 82-year-old panties thief will meet justice at last after cops in Hyogo Prefecture arrested Tsuyoshi Matsusue on Sunday.
The octogenarian had been sighted stealing a 59-year-old woman's pair of underwear from her garden, says Tokyo Reporter. The sprightly pensioner made off with his prize on Sunday morning but the victim's husband gave chase for 200 meters.
Unfortunately, his physique was not as strong as his erotic energies, and the 62-year-old husband managed to catch up with the panties thief.
When questioned by ...
There's been a lot of media attention about stalking recently, not least due to the sad case of 18-year-old Saaya Suzuki, murdered by a stalker earlier this month.
Now comes another odd twist on the situation.
The National Police Agency (NPA) has reported a 3.8 increase on incidents of stalking by citizens over 60 over the last decade.
So much for the golden years.
Apparently stalking is on the increase in general, though the rise is much more notable for pensioners.
Stalkers in their sixties jumped from 383 in 2003 to 1,329 in 2012, plus there was an increase from 90 to 505 of guys in ...
Our image of the pimp is typically a young wannabe gangster, flashy clothes with sunshades and a toothpick in his teeth.
Beware an old man in a hurry, as the saying has it. The elderly chap in spectacles might just be rushing around arranging sexual encounters for his fellow older acquaintances.
Such was the case in Tokyo where the 70-year-old Kiyohide Kuroda was arrested for organizing meet-ups between older men and women in coffee shops, which would then lead onto some more vigorous encounters.
Kuroda's arrest stems specifically from a meeting he arranged between a male 67-year-old ...
Forget Toyota and Sony, the real beneficiaries of Abenomics and the boost to the economy Japan is receiving (at least in spirit) is Yoshiwara, the old red light district near the Tokyo Sky Tree and still active centuries after it first became a licensed sex area.
Of course, these days prostitution is officially outlawed (thanks to the US occupation for that) but the true Yoshiwara experience can still be enjoyed in the soaplands, where you get a bubbly rub-down followed by other kinds of services.
The increase in tourists to the nearby Sky Tree is having a knock-on effect on the ...
Love hotels. Sites for naughty sex between adulterous couples, couples who still live at home, and of course plenty of liaisons with prostitutes too.
A little known fact is that one in four occupants of a love hotel is now said to be over 65, and the love hotels are adapting to these seniors.
With the Baby Boomer generation hitting retirement, seniors mean big business for everyone.
Seniors, though, naturally like to take things easily, so many hotels are offering longer versions of the so-called two or three-hour "rest" periods, so seniors can get the daytime cheap rate at their own ...
We just spotted this interview with Shigeo Tokuda in the Guardian. Tokuda-san is 77 and has starred in over 350 JAV flicks, making even veterans like Maria Ozawa seem like newbies.
But he hasn't just been in so many because he is a long-timer. No, he only started when he was 60 and so in fact he has starred only in films made for Japan's rapidly aging population's tastes. That this has spawned such a vast library of titles shows the thirst the oldies have for watching someone their own age going at it.
Tokuda is a grandfather -- his name is a stage name but his daughter apparently ...
