S&X (aka S to X) is a new Japanese Netflix drama about Ichito Shimotori, a sex therapist who sees patients facing intimate issues they can't talk about with anyone else. Ignoring the ridicule and prejudice he receives for his chosen profession, he treats each patient with utmost sincerity and respect. But little do the people around him know that he hides an anxiety of his own.
It is a live-action adaptation of a manga by Kisei Tada subtitled "confessions of a therapist." Kento Nakajima plays the lead role.
According to Netflix:
Rooted in the idea that everyone carries private sexual ...
Two of our favorite ladies in gravure, together in one shoot.
Former AKB48 idol Mariya Nagao and model Yume Hayashi recently appeared together in an alluring lingerie shoot, which appeared in Friday just before Golden Week.
Such shoots with two gradols invariably have a lesbian undertone, even (or perhaps especially) when it's two sisters.
The 32-year-old Mariyagi has done these kinds of "joint" shoots before with her friend, Jun Amaki, who is set to retire from gravure this summer, sparking a million male fantasies of a threesome with them. Mariyagi also photographed one of ...
We all know the image of flight attendants: they're hot and sexy, and have got men eating out of their hands. But stereotypes are one thing and reality is quite another.
The comedian Crazy Coco used to work at a flight attendant for a foreign airline. While she probably had more than a few dalliances with hunky pilots and swanky execs flying in first class during her career, it seems that romance has been a rare thing in recent years.
On an edition of TV Asahi's The Hell I Loved that aired late at night on November 20, Crazy Coco confessed the sad state of her love life.
During a segment ...
According to a spot on a recent TV show, personal self-defense sprays like mace are selling well in Japan among young woman as people begin to feel unsafe in their lives.
"I keep reading people online talk about how it's getting more dangerous, so I'm thinking about getting one," remarks one teenaged girl who was interviewed.
"I think just carrying it will give you peace of mind," said another female teenager.
Such sprays, known variously as mace or pepper spray, contain a type of tear gas that temporarily blinds an assailant.
The TV report was hardly scientific and did not give any ...
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 Taiga drama Unbound has started on public broadcaster NHK. The period drama is an institution on Japanese TV, running for a whole year and always attracting a lot of attention.
It typically broadcasts in the early evening and is pretty tame in terms of content (don't expect blood in the fight scenes, for instance).
As such, viewers were surprised to see nudity in the very first episode last Sunday. Japanese TV drama shows on the established linear channels generally features no nudity, even for late-night shows, though there are sometimes bizarrely non-nude sex scenes.
The nude ...
The television announcer and model Kasumi Mori has become a high-class hostess.
Well, kinda. She pretended to be one to film a TV show.
Mori is riding high now from lots of media appearances and exposure as she tries to follow the likes of announcer-turned-actress Minami Tanaka and break out into the mainstream as a model and general celebrity.
The 28-year-old recently released her debut photo book that featured some pretty sexy shots and has been a minor hit, it seems.
In the show, which was broadcast on TV Asahi (and with the full version available on Abema), Mori wore an alluring ...
Former HKT48 idol Miku Tanaka is trying to build an acting career and has cleverly chosen to do so with a role that gets hot and steamy.
In the TV drama Cinderella Complex, which started airing in Japan from March 1, she has a sex scene with her lover in bed.
Don't get too excited if Mikurin is a favorite of yours: this being a drama on mainstream Japanese TV, there's no actual nudity.
She and her slightly older lover have sex under the sheets, with her nipples and side boob just hidden by his arm. It's quite a tease.
Miku Tanaka was a member of HKT48, the Fukuoka-based sister ...
The previous episode teased us with a preview that looked good. They didn't lie.
We reported last week about Rikon Shinai Otoko (The Man Who Doesn’t Divorce), the buzzy new TV drama starring ex-AKB48 idol Mariko Shinoda in a post-divorce comeback role as an adulteress, cheekily riffing on her own marital issues (in which she was accused of an affair).
Since it's showing on mainstream Japanese TV, there's no actual nudity -- so don't get too excited if you want to see the 37-year-old in the buff -- but it's pretty explicit for all that, including a doggy sex scene.
And that was just the ...
If you want to recover from a scandal and rebuild your career, one tried-and-tested method is to reinvent yourself: take a different kind of acting role, do something more provocative.
Previously, female Japanese idols, actors, and models in a career slump have dropped their clothes for sexually explicit roles or have appeared in nude shoots. Angelica Michibata's nude photo book after her scandal is a case in point, as was Maki Goto's after her rumored affair.
Former AKB48 idol Mariko Shinoda found herself in a personal and professional pickle when her alleged adultery was exposed in 2022. ...
