In an interview with the Bunshun Online, Japanese adult video star Minamo has described her childhood as a lonely time spent as an outsider who "had no friends."
Ahead of her retirement from porn in December, the ravishingly beautiful star says everything changed when she entered high school. She underwent a dramatic transformation and people began to compare her to actress Kasumi Arimura (even though Minamo is now famously a dead ringer for actress Mitsuki Takahata) and became immensely popular with the boys. Although she finally achieved her dream of joining the cool crowd, Minamo says ...
Kaoru Oshima made a huge splash when he debuted in the adult film industry in 2014 as the first otokonoko (male-to-female crossdressing) adult film star. He (we are assuming Oshima goes by "he") retired from the porn industry at age 25 the following year and has since expanded his career as a TV personality and writer, similar to the likes of Minamo, who recently debuted as a novelist ahead of her retirement from JAV.
Having entered the industry via gay adult videos as a biological male, why did Oshima shift his focus to mainstream adult films as a femboy performer? Oshima sat for an ...
The leading Japanese adult video performer Minamo, who is set to retire in December, has released her debut novel.
Her first novel, Mother's Boat of Mud, went on sale on September 14, published by Kadokawa, one the biggest publishers in Japan.
With her 192-page literary debut, Minamo follows in the footsteps of porn peers like Mana Sakura, who has published several books.
As expected, the release her generated a lot of media attention. She was recently interviewed by Web The Television about her new novel.
It started with perhaps the obvious question: Why did she choose family as the ...
When is big too big? Last week, we reported on the porn debut of Kaira Haneda, who has a whopping K-cup bust, and very finely shapely and colored too.
Now netizens in Japan are talking excitedly about the breasts of adult video star Ako Kimura (木村愛心), a 29-year-old performer whose JAV debut was in May 2025 from S1 No. 1 Style.
Her breasts are a jaw-dropping L cup and their sheer size and heft suggests you can have too much of a good thing.
The fetish subculture of bakunyu (literally, explosive breasts) was named precisely for such tits.
Her 17th release was just announced by ...
One the best porn debuts in Japan this month is by Kaira Haneda in a release from Madonna, which specializes in adult video productions featuring older performers.
Haneda is meant to be a former member of the entertainment industry (so, either an actress or model) who retired four years ago. She married and moved overseas for her husband's work, but their sex life has apparently dried up and she is keen to satisfy her desires in other ways. Haneda is now 34 years old and making her JAV debut as an older performer in a 120-minute release (JUR-839).
Of course, there's a lot of ...
To remember the former porn star Tsubomi is to go back to what now seems like a veritable golden age of adult video, a more innocent time of JAV before the restrictive new legislation came in and the coercion scandals that have blackened the industry.
Tsubomi was a Lolita-style performer who made her debut in 2006 at the age of 18. She had already appeared in 1,000 releases by 2012.
We actually assumed she had retired in the 2010s, but it seems she did not officially leave the industry until late 2022, making her career one of the longest in recent memory.
Known as Tsubomin to her fans, ...
What happens when porn stars retire? Most disappear into obscurity after a short career in a highly competitive industry, probably earning money by hostessing, compensated dating, and sex work. A small number are able to switch gears to an adjacent career, such as acting or modeling (such as Yua Mikami). And there are interesting examples of JAV stars who switch to a wholly different occupation, like Hiyori Yoshioka, who works at a sexual health clinic.
We have chronicled various examples of these post-idol careers over the years, and another interesting one recently came across our ...
The prolific Japanese porn director Chisho Ito, known professionally as Tohjiro, has died at the age of 70. He had been suffering from lung cancer.
The news was announced on July 21 by his wife, the former porn star Mirei Asaoka.
Tohjiro was born in Roppongi, Tokyo, in 1956. He made his first film, Gondola, in the mid-1980s, and it screened internationally in 1987 and 1988.
In 1989, he shot his first adult video (this was at a time when JAV was entering its heyday in terms of sales, as lavishly portrayed in the Netflix series The Naked Director). In 2001, he founded the AV production ...
The popular Japanese tennis player Ayano Sonoda has complained publicly about a new Japanese porn productions that seems to take inspiration from her, even to the point of using a cover image possibly based on one of the photos she previously posted on social media.
The cover of Dedicated to tennis for 19 years! A talented athlete who competed in the inter-high school championships and played for a corporate team! She's making her AV debut to satisfy her pent-up masochistic sexual desires! Beneath her clothes lies a stunning, toned, slender body with G-cup breasts! Marika Sonoda features the ...
A few years ago, what seemed to be a sexual assault openly taking place on the streets of Shibuya during the Halloween cosplay party turned out to be an adult video production being film guerrilla-style among the actual crowds of bystanders.
Ah, those were the glory days before the pandemic and a crackdown destroyed Halloween in Shibuya, and before new porn legislation imposed stricter rules that have greatly increased production schedules.
Nonetheless, some bold types working in JAV still try their luck with seat-of-the-pants productions and edgy stunts, but the consequences are sometimes ...
