There are blasts from the past, and then there are blasts from the past.
If you are long-term fan of gravure, then you will know of Yinling (Yan Yinling), a major force in the industry in the late 1990s and 2000s.
She moved to Japan at the age of 10 and enjoyed a successful career as a female wrester, race queen, singer, and gravure model, but got married in 2008 to a Japanese man and effectively retired from the industry, moving back to Taiwan in 2011.
Now aged 47 and the mother of three children, the Taiwanese-born model also known as Yinling of Joy is making a comeback with her first ...
In October last year, we posted something about the extraordinary phenomenon that are the Rakuten Girls in Taiwan: the squadron of cheerleaders who entertain fans at games played by the Rakuten Monkeys, a baseball team sponsored by the Japanese e-commerce giant. The results, especially when the cheerleaders dress up as office ladies in tight skirts, are amazing -- even if they are unlikely to convince feminists that baseball is not just for guys.
Now one of those Rakuten Girls, Mizuki Lin (Lin Xiang, 林襄), has posed for a semi-nude photo shoot that's surely a home run for her fans.
The ...
At professional baseball games in Japan, like in the United States, it is common to invite a celebrity to make a ceremonial first pitch.
We remember some minor controversy a few years ago when a very scantily clad Mitsu Dan was asked to do this duty.
In Taiwan, though, they do things differently.
At the stadium for local baseball team Rakuten Monkeys, sponsored by the Japanese e-commerce giant, in Taoyuan City, a squadron of sexy office ladies entertain visitors with their thighs and curvy butts.
Wearing face masks (which are still ingrained over here in East Asia), the five slinky ladies ...
Piracy is the bane of porn producers, who wring their hands over their lost profit margins whenever their efforts are illegally uploaded to video sharing sites.
This all makes it harder to generate decent money from porn, though the adult video industry in Japan is still reasonably healthy due to DVD and streaming sales.
What about elsewhere? It seems that people are looking for new ways to monetize porn.
Perhaps it is for that reason that the performers in this Chinese porn have opted to wear, literally, ads on their skin, even when they are going all out doing the sex that the script ...
We normally find ourselves writing with glee about Japanese adult video's penchant for parody, in which the industry often reacts very quickly to events and cultural phenomena with pastiche porn par excellence.
But this time, JAV was beaten to the punch by porn makers in Taiwan.
Netflix's Korean hit Squid Game, whose sex scenes we have written about, has now inspired a porn rip-off on the East Asian island nation.
Details are slim, though news about the upcoming porn release is spreading online for the past week or so. With the original drama's themes of punishment and torture, it's ripe ...
While we have eagerly watched and covered the content Netflix has made in Japan, not least the TV series The Naked Director, which lived up to its title, and the recent lesbian road movie Ride or Die, which featured amazing sex scenes with Kiko Mizuhara, we also want to pay attention to the other Asian content being produced.
Our eye was caught by the Chinese-Taiwanese mystery movie The Soul (Ji hun), which stars Anke Sun and was released globally in mid-April.
Anke Sun does full-frontal nudity in it. Although the scene is sadly not a sex scene, she walks fully around nude in a room and ...
Here's a story that likely won't do any favors for the reputations of either gaijin or Asian women.
We stumbled upon the tale of the American Mixed Martial Arts fighter Jaymes Schulte, who allegedly made secret videos of his one-night stands with many Asian women.
Apparently he then uploaded his sex tapes to a now-defunct Pornhub channel called TravelPorn where he charged viewers $10 for uncensored videos or $250 for a lifetime membership. He accumulated 3,000 subscribers and 800,000 views.
The Mixed Martial Arts lightweight fighter (nicknamed "Underdog") in his early thirties says ...
It's rare for us to take a look at Taiwan, so here's a quick overview of a film from that oft unfairly overlooked island nation.
Directed by Adam Tsuei, The Tenants Downstairs (2016) is about, to quote IMDB, "a sadistic landlord manipulates the lives of his tenants through a network of surveillance cameras installed throughout the building."
For readers with long memories, the premise is pretty similar to the early 1990s erotic thriller Sliver.
The Taiwanese film features nude scenes from Yu-Wei Shao (Ivy Shao) and Xing Li (Lu Fu Ling) as well as Lin Tzu Ning and Yu Pei Chen. There's ...
Here is an incomplete and imperfect list of East Asia's top sex scandals. Please share more examples in the comments below (but no links to sex tape leak sites, please).
We've divided the list by nation alphabetically.
China
Over in the People's Republic, the Chinese model Zhai Ling (aka Shou Shou) landed in hot water when an alleged sex tape leaked online.
Hong Kong
Perhaps the most famous case on this list, the Edison Chen photos scandal from 2008 brought down the career of one of Hong Kong's biggest stars at the time, led to death threats, and arrest for the person who ...
Rio Uchida is a gravure idol with a cult following for her foxy body and cute ass.
She has also become known to non-readers of the gravure weekly magazines for her role in the Kamen Rider Drive series.
The 24-year-old minx (and college graduate) has recently done a spread in Taiwan for Young Jump magazine.
Man, those legs. Imagine taking a short vacation from Tokyo to Taipei while accompanied by this beauty.
Perhaps Taiwan should use Rio Uchida as its official tourist advertising idol? We imagine it would send men scuttling to the airports in no ...
