Who are the top female idols from the 1980s? Japanese people in their fifties were recently asked to rank who they think are the biggest female idols who debuted between 1986 and 1989.
The online survey came up with Chisato Moritaka as number 1. The 54-year-old is still going strong, releasing music, giving concerts, and appearing regularly on TV.
At number two was 50-year-old Rie Miyazawa, who made her debut in a TV commercial for Mitsui House in 1987. As regular readers will know, she went on to make a seminal contribution to the hair nude genre of photography.
At number three was ...
Of all the points of entry into gravure, we are well used to women side-stepping into the industry from other jobs like music idols, fashion models, ring girls, race queens, and convention booth companions.
But geisha?!
Rino (莉乃) is a 22-year-old from Shizuoka who moved to Kyoto at 16 to become a maiko, or apprentice geisha. She worked in the old capital as a maiko in the Miyagawacho district until the age of 20.
She has now made her debut in the rather less glamorous but more modern world of gravure with a shoot for Weekly Friday. And in a very competitive industry in which new idols ...
When a foreign-born contestant won Miss Japan last month, it sparked much wringing of hands from certain sections of the commentariat and internet, and a roughly equal amount of earnest gushing about how much Japan was changing.
Karolina Shiino, who was born in Ukraine but has lived in Japan since the age of five and eventually naturalized as a Japanese citizen, was awarded the title of Miss Japan in a ceremony in January. The face of Japan was now officially a white woman. This was enough of a news story to make waves internationally.
Now, as they say, the plot thickens. The 26-year-old ...
We do love an obscure but explicit Asian movie. The one we were watching over the weekend was White River.
Released in 2023, the film is about, to quote the official synopsis, "a woman whose routine of cooking, cleaning and observing strict quarantine rules is disrupted when she becomes entangled in an erotic web with her husband and an enigmatic young waiter."
The film is made in China in Mandarin but is apparently a South Korean production. It is directed by Ma Xue, a female filmmaker.
Tian Yuan, a musician and actress, plays the titular character, in a brave role in which she bares a ...
Q. Please introduce yourself. Who are you? What do you do?
My name is Pickles Bourne, and I am a nightlife ambassador in Tokyo, Japan.
I work at a company called Kaku-Butsu, which operates a prostitution shop review website in Japan. At Kaku-Butsu, we created a website for visitors who want sexual services called Japanese HENTAI Girls Collection (JHGC). JHGC offers a concierge service, offering you a personalized selection of companions that fulfills your request. My job is to support tourists and visitors in Japan to experience the best out of what Japan has to offer, especially in terms ...
We always like to welcome back old friends at Tokyo Kinky. Haruka Ayase's return to gravure, while quite modest, recently put a big smile on our faces.
And so it is with a little squeal of glee that we greet the gravure comeback of Miwako Kakei.
The Terrace House alum was a big gravure idol in the mid-2010s but has been content to plow a trade as a regular model, celebrity, and actress in more recent times. (Her acting gigs have particularly picked up in the past few years, especially for TV dramas.)
For whatever the reason, she has gone back to what she was originally good at, and is ...
Japanese sex dolls are some of the best in the world in terms of quality and variety. In particularly, the silicone sex dolls by the likes of Orient Industry are the crème de la crème.
They are not, however, cheap. Given the amount of craftsmanship and material that goes into them, not to mention all the options you get to customize them, this is no surprise.
And perhaps it is a surprise that a prefectural government should splash out on a sex doll using public funds. Well, there's also the issue of ethics too!
Tokushima Prefectural Government reportedly spent more than ¥400,000 on a ...
The new Amazon Prime series Expats has a stacked cast, including the likes of Nicole Kidman as one of the titular wealthy foreigners living in Hong Kong.
We hope Ms. Kidman will forgive us but our focus has been on Ji-young Yoo, mainly because of her sex scene in episode 1.
Ji-young Yoo is shown leaning back alluring on her hands while bouncing her thighs up and down in the lap of a guy, who grunts as they have sex and even gives her a couple of slaps for reasons not really clear to us. Now, that's no way to treat a lady.
One of her small yet succulent nipples is on display and begging ...
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 ...
Late last year, we showcased the ageless miracle that is Fumie Nakajima, who looks amazing in swimwear even in her mid-fifties.
As they mature, Japanese improve with age like a fine wine. A couple of cases in point: Yoko Kumada and Sayaka Isoyama, who both look stunning in their forties.
If further proof was needed, here's another example.
Making her debut way back in 1994, the gravure idol Yuka Sawachi (沢地優佳) has managed to survived in a competitive industry in which idols are often discarded after a few months of shoots for the weeklies. She actually retired in 2007 and then ...
