We have grown used to Japanese porn stars' prior careers as music idols, gravure models, and so on. What's often so exciting about their entry into adult video is that those worlds generally don't allow the women to have relationships publicly (because it spoils the illusion that you could date the idol). This is similar with the Takarazuka Revue, a long-running all-female company that puts on musicals in Osaka and Tokyo. Some of the most famous actresses in Japan started off life as members of the company, though it is something of a closed eco-system, putting on a very particular type of ...

Soft on Demand has canceled the release of a porn film featuring the debut of a 21-year-old former actress who graduated from a "noted musical school." No names were specified but it is an open secret that the school was Takarazuka, who have brought out the legal guns to stop their name being "tarnished." Takarazuka is of course the all-female cabaret theatre troupe based in the Osaka area that inspires a devout following among fans, who travel from all over the country to see the women play either the male or female roles in kitschy musicals at theaters in Osaka, Tokyo or other major ...