The Japanese porn star Minamo has announced her retirement.
The wildly popular adult video performer put out a statement on June 14 on her social media channels announcing her forthcoming retirement in December, while Soft on Demand released a special page on its website. It brings to an end a five-year career that has seen the 26-year-old mononymous star rise to the top of the industry.
In that time, Minamo (usually written in uppercase roman letters in Japanese) has achieved significant mainstream recognition alongside her dozens of adult video releases, photo books, and calendars.
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The Japanese adult video performer An Sasakura recently sat down for an interview with Nikkan Spa!, joined by her none other than her mother.
Sasakura is a 39-year-old industry veteran who debuted in February 2016 and has since appeared in over 500 releases. She left her agency last year and is currently working as a freelancer.
She has openly talked of her strict upbringing with a father who is an executive at a major corporation, and her business owner grandfather.
The interview with Sasakura and her mother was proposed by the actress herself, and her mother agreed.
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On the evening of June 7, adult video actress Mai Fujisaki issued an apology on social media apologizing "for the worry and trouble caused by some media reports."
This refers to reports in Taiwanese media outlet on June 3 and later picked up by Japanese media that Fujisaki had entered Taiwan on a tourist visa and illegally engaged in prostitution, leading to her arrest in a hotel in Tianmu, a high-end residential area of Taipei, and subsequently deportation.
Fujisaki acknowledged the reports. "The incident in question occurred about six months ago." She then expressed deep remorse, ...
The Japanese porn star Yui Hatano celebrated her 18th anniversary in the industry this week.
In that time, countless other performers have fallen by the wayside and most have been forgotten, Hatano has not only retained her popularity, but kept up an enviable rate of releases and also seemingly not grown jaded as she got older.
It is estimated that the award-winning performer, known affectionately to fans as Hata-chan or Yui-chan, has appeared in more than 3,000 porn titles since her debut way back in 2008.
Of course, such a long career has a downside. You feel old compared to your ...
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.
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Retired porn stars tend to disappear into the oblivion of regular employment after retirement, with only a few seeking out the limelight by launching other public-facing careers. But this is the first time that we have heard of a porn star switching gears into charity work.
Eimi Fukada was one of the biggest names in the Japanese adult video industry but she seemed to quietly retire last year. As far as we know, she didn't realize any new productions and, while we didn't seem a formal announcement, she is now described in the media as a "former" porn star (or, as the Japanese media always ...
The online version of monthly magazine Spa! recently published a two-part interview with the Japanese porn star Sora Amakawa, describing her early career and experience with management agencies that didn't pay her fees.
We've translated and edited some highlights from the two interviews.
You debuted in the porn industry in 2019. What led you to join a talent agency that represents adult film performers?
Sora Amakawa: I needed to earn money to support my family, so a friend introduced me to a talent agency that specializes in adult film actresses. However, that friend was receiving a ...
Move over ladies, there's a newbie in town and she's quickly attracting buzz from the guys.
In the competitive world of Japanese adult video, where new performers debut weekly, to say nothing of the uncredited amateurs, it takes something to stand out from the crowd. Nozomi Suzuki (鈴木希) might just have it.
She made her debut in March at the age of 21 and has since released two more AVs (one in April, another in May), all with S1 No. 1 Style. At a rate of one a month, that's not a massively prolific output, but since the introduction of legislation on porn that insists on a ...
Sayuri Okamoto is a recently elected local politician in Kawaguchi. Allegations have appeared online over the past two or so days that she has a secret porn career after netizens seemed to match her face with that of an "amateur" performer in at least one 20-minute adult video release by Soku-nuki (M794G-02).
We must stress clearly and categorically that this is completely unconfirmed. At the time of writing, Okamoto has made no comment on the claim, though we cannot imagine that she is unaware of it, since it has become a large talking point on certain social media platforms and other ...
The Bakobako Bus Tour Cup is the highly anticipated first masturbator cup by Moodyz, the Japanese adult video production company. As JAV fans will immediately note, the toy is inspired by the eponymous series of porn productions whose premise is a bus taking a random set of men to a remote resort with Japanese porn stars on board to help make the trip as memorable and pleasurable as possible.
En route to the resort, the men enjoy plenty of sex in their seats. The male performers are genuine amateurs recruited from the general public at regular intervals. If you're an average Joe Tanaka, ...
