After tantalizing us with a short yet sexy nude scene in the very first episode, Yuka Kouri is back with more nudity in the Disney and FX series Shogun. In episode four, we get treated to a proper sex scene. She sits naked in her lover's lap, who promptly lies down on top of her (because it would be frankly rude not to). "I love you, Kiku," he says, and who can play him? They begin to kiss. The scene is, admittedly, only a few seconds long but is more explicit than the previous one and very sensual. We get nice glimpses of Yuka Kouri's breasts and her legs as her lover lies on top ...

In the FX/Disney series, a new adaptation of the James Clavell bestseller, Japanese actress Yuka Kouri (向里祐香) has a nude sex scene in the first episode. The 33-year-old actress, best known until now for her roles in local TV dramas and low-budget films, plays Kiku, a courtesan. She enters a room and then alluringly slips her kimono off a shoulder to expose a breast, playing up to every male fantasy tropes involving Japanese women in one shot. The kimono comes off the second shoulder and we glimpse her other breast. She then lies naked on top of a man all while another guy ...

The Japanese actress Yoko Shimada (島田陽子) has died, aged 69, from complications of colorectal cancer. She was best known internationally for her English-speaking role in the miniseries Shogun from 1980, adapted from the James Clavell bestseller. Shimada rose to fame in Japan in the 1970s as an actress and singer, and then capitalized on her role in Shogun and became a star in Japan (though more international roles were few and far between). But it all came crashing down in the late 1980s, when an affair with the musician Yuya Uchida was exposed by the tabloids and all her work dried ...