Given the huge volume of porn produced in Japan and, thus, the large number of women involved, it is inevitably that many of the performers will have families after they retire from the industry. The question of former or current adult video stars raising families is one that occasionally appears in the media, often with a degree of sympathy (for the abuse they can suffer online) and curiosity.
Spa! recently featured an interview with AiRis, an up-and-coming gravure idol and singer who is also the daughter of 46-year-old former porn star Mariko Sata.
Single mom Sata was active in the ...
As regular readers will know, we have a strong interest in the afterlives of music idols, gravure models, and porn stars.
The situation is particularly tough for the latter, who face discrimination and criticism if they go public with personal details like pregnancy or attempt to branch out into more "respectable" professions.
The former adult video star Yua Mikami had one of the most successful careers among performers of her generation. She already reinvented herself once, graduating from a career as a music idol in SKE48 to JAV, where she known by her birth name, Momona Kito.
Since ...
Japanese adult video often employs referential parody formats, from recent cultural productions (anime, TV shows, etc.) to incidents (scandals, crimes, etc.).
In a culture where parody and satire is not as common as, for instance, the West, JAV frequently feels fresh and exciting in this regard, and the potentially limitless source of scenarios that can be parodied is another reason that porn is so prolific in Japan.
The most recent example of porn parody we have seen is an AV starring Rima Arai that parodies The First Take, a YouTube channel in which singers record a song in a single take ...
Regular readers will remember the porn star Riasu Mizutani, the translator who moonlights in adult video (or vice versa).
She was recently included in a book about intelligent JAV performers but also announced her pregnancy, which is likely to mean the end of her career (about 17 credits and counting).
Bunshun Online recently published a two-part interview with Mizutani, who was born in Boston, was raised partly in the UK (where her father was working), and made her debut in the industry in 2023.
In it, she talks about her comfortable upbringing and what she was like as a child, which ...
The head of a video production company has been arrested for not providing a woman who appeared in a porn shoot with a performer's contract.
According to Tokyo Metropolitan Police, Daichi Iwai is suspected of failing to give the female performer a contract when she worked for him last year. He was arrested on April 14.
The 35-year-old suspect explained to her verbally in May 2024 that "no one will know it's you and we can delete the footage." However, the actual release did not conceal the twentysomething's identity, nor did Iwai respond to requests for him to delete the video.
It is not ...
It might sound like a contradiction in terms but Japanese adult video is transnational. By which we mean that Japanese women aren't the only ones working in the industry. There are plenty of foreign performers too, including white women (especially if they look exotic).
Though Caucasian and biracial beauties often have the most success, you can also regularly find examples of women from other parts of East Asia.
The latest in this long and alluring lineage is Tiny Lu (胎尼), the fun-sized Taiwanese influencer and model who is making her Japanese AV debut this month. Tiny Lu's first ...
One of the most highly anticipated Japanese adult video debuts this month is that of Hikari Ogura (小椋ひかり), whose first release comes out on April 15 from E-Body.
Marunouchi OL's Most Amazing Breasts: Shocking Body Amateur Trial AV Debut (EBWH222) has, as the title suggests, an office lady theme and really places the emphasis on Ogura's tits. And what tits they are: these J-cup boobs weigh over 5 kilograms (11 pounds).
If the marketing is to be believed -- and in JAV, publicity is always a little suspect -- Ogura is a real OL who is giving porn a try for just a single release, so ...
Rui Sakuragi was one of the biggest adult video stars in Japan in the first half of the 1990s. She made her debut in 1989 and then left the industry in 1996 at the peak of her popularity.
In her subsequent career, she was a stripper until the year 2000, and did some acting on TV during those years.
But in the past quarter-century, fans didn't know what she was up to and rumors swirled that she had passed away.
That silence ended recently.
So what is the now 56-year-old Rui Sakuragi doing today? She's working as a hostess at a club in Ginza run by another top ex-porn star, Hitomi ...
One of the most highly anticipated upcoming porn debuts this month is that of someone identified only as Sayaka, whose first adult video (JUR029) comes out from porn label Madonna on March 11.
She is meant to be a former entertainer (meaning either an actor or TV celebrity) but we presume can't be famous or it would defeat the marketing value of the porn debut (since fans won't hear about it if her full name is not disclosed).
The producers have chosen to keep her name disguised -- and her face. While there's nothing unusual about adopting a new name when switching to porn (sometimes this ...
Beloved for her slinky body, boyish looks, and short hair, the Japanese porn star Riasu Mizutani has announced her pregnancy on social media.
We had noted Mizutani's recent social media absence and lack of releases, after making a bit of a splash with her debut in 2023. She broke her silence on March 1 with the announcement, accompanied by a picture of her cradling her pregnant belly.
Mizutani has carved out a very unusual presence in the adult video industry, mainly because she is a highly educated young woman who also works an English-Japanese translator.
Since emerging on the scene, ...
