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 ...
After two seasons of The Naked Director and films like Ride or Die, Netflix is proving that its original Japanese content is the place to go for nude sex scenes.
In the film We Couldn't Become Adults, a Netflix original and now available on the streaming giant, Sairi Ito (伊藤沙莉) shows her beautiful Japanese-sized breasts when her lover takes her off robe and then she lies down in bed for some action. We get to see her nipples pretty close up.
Sairi Ito also had a small role in the two seasons of The Naked Director. She previously did nude scenes in Love and Other Cults ...
Yuko Oshima has really changed in the seven or so years since she graduated AKB48 (writing which makes us feel old!).
She's reinvented herself as a serious actress, like her former AKB stablemate Atsuko Maeda. She went off to study in America and got herself a foreign boyfriend when she returned.
More recently, the 32-year-old got married (not to the aforementioned foreign boyfriend but to fellow actor Kento Hayashi) this year.
But another chapter in her post-AKB career appeared a couple of years ago: she shot her first sex scenes (unless we missed an earlier example) for All the Things We ...
In what may be every foreign otaku's dream come true or the stuff of nightmares, Yuko Oshima has been snapped by the lens of a tabloid photographer on an intimate date with a foreigner.
The lucky man is apparently an American. (Incidentally, Oshima is herself a quarter American, which may or may not be relevant.) The couple were followed while they walked arm in arm in Tokyo, with Oshima wearing a face mask as is common for celebrities. They had attended a showing of the movie Bohemian Rhapsody, which is a mega hit in Japan.
The tall and bearded boyfriend was also reportedly spotted ...
AKB48's Yuko Oshima like you've never seen her before, naked!
At least, that's what the publisher is (almost) promising.
While she has never been averse to risque shoots, Yuko's new photo book is particularly eyebrow-raising. By comparison, most AKB girls, even after graduating, remain fairly safe, though there are exceptions. Atsuko Maeda, for example, is attempting to forge a career in mainstream acting (good luck with that).
Over the summer the twenty-five-year-old Yuko has been stripping down for photographer Mika Ninagawa. The results are a photo book to be released in ...
Every New Year in Japan much of the nation tunes into the five-hour singing show Kohaku Uta Gassen. This year featured the recently remarried (to yet another foreigner!) Ayumi Hamasaki as well as now regulars AKB48, who appeared as all 110 singers.
But there was a surprise for AKB fans. Yuko Oshima made the shock announcement that she would be graduating.
The twenty-five-year-old is a veteran from the Akiba idol group and is the latest in the most popular members to announce her departure. So far, only Atsuko Maeda has really been able to forge a post-AKB career.
Yuko didn't ...
The results of the AKB48 Senbatsu "general election" event are in -- and the participants for the band's 32nd single, as announced at an event on June 8th in Yokohama.
This year -- the fifth "general election" -- the AKB honchos changed the system slightly with "candidacies". 246 idols stood, the most of any of the elections since 2009, including girls from all the major AKB groups and the various teams within each group: AKB48, SKE48, NMB48, HKT48, JKT48 and SNH48. Six graduated members also stood, though not Tomomi Kasai.
The big surprise was the victory of "disgraced" former ...
In an example of brilliantly timed PR, as the much-trumpeted AKB48 "general election" is having -- with Atsuko Maeda for the last time -- the women's fashion magazine Anan features a very sexy, semi-nude shoot with Yuko Oshima on its front cover this issue.
This got us thinking. Forget the gravure idol magazines and weekly mags like Playboy. The really sexy photo shoots with famous models are actually these mainstream women's fashion magazines!
Anan in particular has carved out a reputation for scoring deals with well-known stars to strip off in body-flaunting shoots.
Such ...
Take a beautiful Japanese female artist and it's always going to be a fun day out.
Then she starts to make a series of beguiling, sensual images of hot Japanese female models, actresses and celebrities for magazines, adverts and exhibitions, and you have a truly great combination, popular with men and women alike.
That's what Asami Kiyokawa does, working with the likes of AKB48's Atsuko Maeda and Yuko Oshima, and Yoko Maki, Masami Nagasawa and Asami Mizukawa.
A lot of CG work goes into the final images, transforming the beautiful women into peacocks, forest settings, or ...
It might seem more than a tad cruel to publicly name and shame the least popular members of your group while vaulting others onto a pedestal to flaunt at the head of your column (at least until the next election rolls around).
Then again, with 48 members to keep track of, the marketing team over at AKB headquarters are probably grateful for any help at all in that department - hate to put a dud on the next single cover, after all. Thus, we have the results of the 3rd Senbatsu Election to mull over.
The divine Atsuko Maeda has, somewhat predictably, nabbed the top spot in this year's ...
