We love Tsubomi.
The cute JAV star, recently pregnant, has won legions of fans in Japan and rightfully so.
A documentary on the new Vice Japan channel looks at Tsubomi. It's in Japanese only but turn on the closed captions for English subtitles.
A highlight is at the start when she says she thinks Japanese people are more secretive when it comes to sex.
It doesn't go into any context or explore anything properly, just following Tsubomi around Akihabara as she looks at costumes and meets a few fans. There are some short clips from movie shoots.
There is quite a funny ...
Japanese porn star Sola Aoi (aka Sora Aoi) is immensely popular in China but her latest attempt to flog her titillating DVDs has backfired with the establishment.
She has now indulged in some calligraphy in the country, though it has been criticized as "unskilled" by traditionalists.
That hasn't stopped it from being auctioned for $95,000!
Sola wrote eight Kanji characters at a theme park in Ningbo, which were sold this month.
However, the media has tried to use the opportunity to criticize this "foreign" invader of the flesh.
"The style of calligraphy is childish, ...
It pays to be careless sometimes, it seems.
For a Japanese porn star, despite all those nakadashi (creampie) scenes, you would think that getting pregnant was the thing they fear most. It signals if not the end of their career, at least a large blimp where they cannot work.
But not if you are as cute as the cosplayer JAV porn star Tsubomi, whose latest film is simply called "Tsubomi Pregnant."
We think the main point of the film is thus pretty obvious.
Of course, there are lots of pregnant porn films already and even pregnant women sex shops for people with lactating breasts ...
Never, never let it be said that pornography isn't cultural. Far from it. JAV is high art!
We've known this for years and now there can be no denying it with the Naked Sex Art Museum, which we have been "visiting" recently.
The Soft on Demand (SOD) title features Anri Suzuki, Ryo Akanishi, Satsuki Kirishima and Reira Serikawa in a series of scenes that recreate famous paintings... in the most artistic way possible.
The cover of course is Sandro Botticelli's Venus.
Another major obvious one is Manet's "The Luncheon on the Grass".
The original painting in itself ...
Okay, so that's a provocative question but these are provocative films.
The Naked Continent is a series of Japanese porn films that feature JAV stars heading to Africa ("the dark continent") to meet the natives and go savage.
A lot is made of the contrast between the pale, innocent-looking Japanese girl and the dark tribesmen and women she meets.
There are several films in the series, each starring a different girl. So far stars have included Yui Takashiro, Yuka Osawa and more.
Naturally she gets very acquainted with the men, discovering an inner, feral sexuality through ...
We've been "investigating" another fab genre of Japanese pornography a lot recently.
Homeless porn.
Back in 2011 we saw our first title, where a young J-girl is homeless in L.A. and has to sleep with tramps to get a place to stay.
But there are many, many more.
Some take the common "girl-in-peril" motif and have the young lady being forced to undergo something that is "dirty" or humiliating, or an incredible challenge.
Often the sex is semi-public, watched by all the other homeless guys in the community.
In general, this "humiliation" style is a frequent style in many Japanese JAV ...
Despite being the biggest producer of Japanese porn in the land, Soft on Demand (SOD) still manages to keep surprising audiences. No Hollywood-style reliance on tired formats for SOD!
Here's one we're loving at the moment.
It uses that trope found common to a lot of Japanese kikaku porn (literally "project films", features that focus on an unusual setting and situation rather than a star), the countryside.
Deep in the rural hinterland, there is a horse stables and racecourse where they train and keep mares and stallions.
Only these are not ordinary horses.
No, in Human ...
Who says the industry doesn't look after its own?
The Japanese porn world can get a bad rap, with lots of memoirs recently by former actresses recounting their woes and troubles after fucking and sucking their way through hundreds of men.
But the porn documentary The Other Side of Sex, currently playing at the leading film venue Uplink in Shibuya, will allow porn stars the chance to get in for a discounted ticket price.
Kind of a busman's holiday, the documentary is about the men of the JAV industry and so may prove all too familiar to the ladies.
However, the producers of the ...
Put your hand up of you've ever watched some Japanese porn -- okay, we're raising every part of our bodies! Well, then you will have probably at least one time seen this star.
But unlike Maria Ozawa et al, she doesn't have a name nor even the fame she deserves. But her role in driving the engine of JAV is undisputed.
Behold, the Fairy Massager Wand -- perhaps the most commonly used vibrator in Japanese pornography.
Why is it so popular?
Well, it's obviously a very powerful vibe and its size makes it very visually effective for shooting porn.
Its size also means it can be ...
It's no secret that there's a lot of cum in Japanese porn.
From the ubiquitous bukkake face shot to whole "drinking semen" epics, Japanese guys like their spunk on the ladies.
Well, Japanese porn studio RADIX decided to recruit the semen of fans for JAV star Uta Kohaku's next film.
A pretty neat way not only to generate publicity and interest in the upcoming title -- but also save on expenses! (Most JAV use bukkake lotion and cream when their team's supplies run low after a long day's, ahem, shoot.)
The filming took place yesterday and so this was when Uta got to see ...
