Porn star Yura Kano to retire from AV and focus on regular acting
May 10, 2024
/ Tadashi Anahori
The leading Japanese porn star Yura Kano has announced she will retire in July to focus on non-AV work like her regular acting roles.
The 25-year-old star made her debut as a nude model at the age of 18 and in the adult video industry in November 2017 with a release from S1 No.1 Style.
Over the course of her seven-year AV career, she has released dozens of productions and risen to the top ranks of a highly competitive industry.
She has also published numerous print and digital photo books.
In addition, she release a pocket pussy toy based on her vagina, the Japanese Real Hole Yura ...
Yura Kano and Toko Namiki sex scenes in I Want You, Nana-chan, Give Me a Bite
March 1, 2023
/ Tadashi Anahori
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 ...
Goodbye, Bad Magazines: A new film about the struggles of Japanese adult publishers
January 12, 2023
/ Tadashi Anahori
In one of our (sadly) increasingly rare trips to the movie theater, especially the arthouse cinemas known as "mini theaters" in Japan, we saw a trailer for this movie that deals with a subject very close to our hearts.
Goodbye, Bad Magazines is about the impact of the removable of adult magazines from convenience stores, as one of the ways in which Tokyo tried to clean up its image ahead of the 2020 Olympics. As we know, it was all for naught since the Olympics were delayed by a year and then held without spectators, and at a time in which almost no one except citizens could even enter the ...