Gravure idol Sena Natsuki amazed us with her nude photo book late last year, which featured shots of her naked breasts and ass.
Around the same time, the 28-year-old appeared in the title role in yet another film adaptation of Jun'ichiro Tanizaki's erotic classic A Fool's Love (Chijin no Ai, also translated as Naomi). The subject matter and trailer promised nudity.
And the film delivered.
In one scene, she and her lover make love passionately on the tatami floor of a room, with lots of closeups of Sena Natsuki's breasts and nipples as her lover caresses and sucks them. This comes after ...
Celebrating the fortieth anniversary of top gravure magazine Weekly Friday, the Grademy Award was announced last autumn and votes collected online to find what was billed as Asia's top gradol.
Almost all of the 232 candidates were Japanese, though, so the "Asian" claim was slightly disingenuous. But quibbles aside, the public votes have been counted and the results -- and awards -- finally announced online earlier last week.
The top prize -- billed as Most Valuable Gradol -- went to leading gravure idol Ina Enohara.
Best Newcomer (also billed as Best Gradol Debut) was shared by ...
Here's some very good news for fans of gravure idol and actress Yuno Ohara, and we know that there are hundreds of thousands of them out there.
The 25-year-old gradol has just released her fourth photo book, which marks her fifteenth anniversary as an idol (she began her career as a dancer way back in 2009.
Titled √25 and published on February 7 by Shogakukan, it's her most nude release to date.
And what's really interesting is that the model teamed up with Okinawan actress Fumi Nikaido for the photo book.
The 30-year-old Nikaido is an established photographer in her own right, ...
Yuumi (sometimes spelled Yumi) Kawai has made her nude debut in last year's Desert of Namibia.
Kawai is 24 years old and one of the most acclaimed young actresses in Japan right now, known for her roles in Plan 75 (2022) and some recent TV shows.
Desert of Namibia (2024) is a drama about a Japanese woman called Kana dealing with her love life. Kawai plays the title role.
As far as we know (tell us in the comments if we are wrong), Kawai has never done a nude scene before.
In the short scene of less than a minute, Kawai is shown getting up in the morning, rising slowly from her futon and ...
Aging like a fine red wine, the former Japanese TV announcer Mariko Seyama has proven year by year that older is not only better, but more provocative.
The mature gravure star has continued to strip even as she reached her forties. Indeed, it wasn't until she arrived at that milestone that she showed us her naked breasts, after years of semi-nude shoots.
Seyama is a former announcer for NTV who moved into gravure in 2012. The Tokyo native is a graduate from Keio University, one of the most prestigious colleges in Japan. She is also divorced, having been married from 2009 to 2015. Her ...
Police have raided a brothel that offered services to foreign tourists, arresting seven for violating the prostitution law.
The establishment in Kabukicho, central Tokyo, provided Japanese sex workers for overseas visitors.
Police proudly showed the fruits of their efforts to reporters on February 4, which included English-language information ("Our shop provides Japanese-style service by Japanese girl. The service content may differ from that in your home country"), multiple phones, and cash in sixteen currencies.
The 54-year-old Japanese manager and other arrested six members of staff ...
A month ago, we wrote about the trial of former House of Representatives member Tamotsu Shiiki underway at Tokyo District Court, accused of sexually assaulting a junior high school first grader in a karaoke parlor in Kabukicho.
Shiiki's excuse was that he "didn't ejaculate." He also tried to claim that he was trying to help the 12-year-old in August last year. "I wanted to do something for her because she was a runaway. She was looking for someone to talk to." This claim rather falls down when we consider that Shiiki went to buy personal lubricant before taking the student to the karaoke ...
Shortly after the allegations of Masahiro Nakai brought the career of one of TV's top stars to a screeching halt, and ruined the credibility of one of the biggest broadcasters, now come allegations against another TV comedian that he forcibly tried to take a woman to a love hotel in 2015.
Takayuki Kinoshita of comedy duo TKO has admitted trying to take the woman to the hotel, though denied coercion. As a result, Nippon Television has cut his scenes from a show broadcast on Sunday.
The allegations against the 53-year-old comedian were made by a YouTuber, originally on X but they were ...
The new photo book by Yuki Kashiwagi has reminded us that a bunch of idols and models have made similar comebacks of late, some doing it just for kicks and others hoping to ride nostalgia to a quick yen.
Other examples include Reiko Kato, Serina, Chinatsu Wakatsuki, Rina Aizawa, Aya Ueto, and Haruka Ayase.
Another comeback that might be on the cards is Aki Hoshino.
Now aged 47, Aki Hoshino posted a video of herself in a swimwear (in what seems to be a sponsored post for Alexia Stam, a swimwear brand) and she looks great for a middle-aged woman.
Many fans commented that they want her to ...
Former AKB48 idol Yuki Kashiwagi appears on the cover of the current issue of Weekly Young Jump, making a striking gravure comeback as she launches her latest photo book, Time Capsule.
The book went on sale on January 29 and brings together 14 years of shoots for Weekly Young Jump. Apparently it's so packed with photos that it weighs a full kilogram (about 2.2 pounds). Yukirin did her first cover shoot for the weekly magazine way back in 2010.
You'll have to get the magazine if you're a true fan, though, since the cover shoot isn't included in the new photo book, which is her fourth ...
