What’s it like filming a sex scene in a Japanese softcore porn movie?
Ai Sayama is a fantastically curvy, veteran Japanese porn star. Now 37 years old, she also works at the “night culture salon” hostess club Red Dragon in Roppongi.
She debuted in the adult video industry in 2007 and has diversified by forming a vocal group with two other porn stars, Anri Okita and Mary Tachibana, and occasional appears in movies.
These tend to be erotic movies or softcore porn (sexploitation). Maniac Driver (2021) is probably the best known among her credits, and stars a number of other leading Japanese porn stars, including Saryu Usui, Ayumi Kimito, and Iori Kogawa.
We’re writing about Sayama and this somewhat obscure Japanese movie because we came across this fascinating footage and images from the shoot, revealing what’s it’s actually like to film these nude and sex scenes we all love watching. As you might expect, it’s definitely less glamorous than it looks after all the editing is done, and there’s a lot of waiting around while naked or scantily clad so crew can adjust lights, cameras, and makeup.
Here is Ai Sayama in action during the movie.
And here she is behind the scenes.
This is Iori Kogawa in one of her many nude scenes in Maniac Driver.
And here she is behind the scenes.
As you can tell, it’s not really a closed set, and there’s certainly no intimacy coordinators anywhere to be seen — just a male director and his minions all looking at you expectantly. That said, there’s also plenty of laughter and people seem aware of the ridiculousness of the situation (and, let’s be frank, the movie itself).
