Ai Sayama is a fantastically curvy, veteran Japanese porn star. Now 37 years old, she also works at the "night culture salon" hostess club Red Dragon in Roppongi.
She debuted in the adult video industry in 2007 and has diversified by forming a vocal group with two other porn stars, Anri Okita and Mary Tachibana, and occasional appears in movies.
These tend to be erotic movies or softcore porn (sexploitation). Maniac Driver (2021) is probably the best known among her credits, and stars a number of other leading Japanese porn stars, including Saryu Usui, Ayumi Kimito, and Iori Kogawa.
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Japanese porn star Natsu Hinata has found herself at the center of a social media storm after she uploaded pictures of herself climbing and then lying on top of the metal overhead rack of a train carriage.
She posted the photos on January 17 and 18 on her X account. In the images, she is smiling and enjoying herself while dressed in a schoolgirl costume. The train carriage is empty.
Careful observers will note that the carriage interior seems strangely subdued for a Japanese train, plus the windows are covered in sheeting so you can't see outside. There are very few ads on the walls and, ...
As we continue to watch the new season of the Netflix show The Naked Director and its galvanic portrayal of the 1980s and 1990s Japanese adult video industry, porn shoots have been on our mind even more than usual.
In behind-the-scenes photos of porn shoots, we are amazed by so many things.
How many staff are involved and how, if you'll excuse the pun, hard the work it is, getting the right angles and lighting. In these corona times, as two pictures recently shared by the AV director Daiki Kato (Samoari) demonstrate, they also have to wear masks (except the ...
We have previously shown readers what it is like to be behind the scenes at a nude photo shoot. We have also had behind-the-scenes reports from several major porn shoots -- including a virtual one.
But what about a photo shoot for a gravure idol (gradol)?
In this case, it is H-cup star Bambi Watanabe.
The 30-year-old hottie was recently featured in a TV program, showing her doing a nude shoot with a female photographer getting very close to her.
The shoot seemed to have a kind of Gustav Klimt or artist atelier theme, judging from the heaps of paintings lying around in the background. ...
Adult virtual reality content is one of the popular trends in Japanese porn right now. Quite how long it will last is anyone's guess but there is currently a steady stream of VR software content coming out on release.
But have you ever wondered how it all gets made in the first place?
We stumbled upon these enlightening behind-the-scenes images from five different VR porn shoots. The process of making adult virtual reality involves quite a set-up, though not necessarily that much more complicated for the performers than other kinds of AV. Imagine hamedori POV porn but with more ...
Ever wondered what it's like to do a nude photo shoot? We all love the results but how are those sensual images created? What's the process? How many people are involved? And how much do models earn?
Well, the truth is a little more banal than you might expect. Often there aren't even any real locations, just a studio and a minimal crew -- and a model willing to drop their towel for a few hours.
A Japanese TV show recently went behind the scenes at a nude photo shoot. Here are some ...
Following the previous report on the March porn shoot at an abandoned rural school, KAI-YOU has published a second behind-the-scenes photo report.
As far as we can tell (the article is written in the usual ambiguous way that certain Japanese publications like to use), this seems to be the same film ("100 People x Nakadashi") by the label Honnaka. We're not sure why there has been a second article, other than it seems to be a promo for the film as part of AV Open 2015. At any rate, this was "round two" shot on another day, featuring new "rules" in the games.
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One day in March, several hundred people descended on an abandoned school deep in the Japanese countryside.
But these weren't ordinary people.
They were the hard-working folk who produce Japan's mountains of pornography.
"100 People x Nakadashi" was not set for release until September but that didn't mean the schedule wasn't tight. With so many people involved, careful planning and efficiency on the day was paramount. As with all things, the Japanese approached this with superb organization.
We weren't there -- but KAI-YOU was and these are their nice pictures.
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"A hard day’s grind for porn’s professionals," as the newspaper has it. The Japan Times has posted a nice, long article about shooting a Japanese porn film.
As bloggers who have experienced some Japanese porn shoots ourselves, we were particularly interested in the article.
It starts with a factoid we have long boasted of...
Japan comes in a distant second in per-capita spending ($157 in 2011) on pornography after voracious South Korea ($527), but when it comes to comparing the sizes of the countries’ homegrown porn industries, there’s no contest. So prominent is Japanese porn ...
