Kanami Takasaki to release second, semi-nude photo book
November 20, 2023
/ Tadashi Anahori
Slinky sexplot Kanami Takasaki is to release her second, hotly anticipated photo book.
Blooming Bud comes out on January 25, 2024, from Transworld Japan, which specializes in publishing idol books and calendars.
It features Takasaki, who is known for her girl-next-door looks, in a more alluring, sensual style, including a cover image where she is posing naked at the sea, holding up a sheer piece of fabric. As the title of the book suggests, 26-year-old Takasaki is possible entering a more mature stage in her career.
Blooming Bud has a beach theme and was shot in Hawaii. To promote it, ...
Impossibly sexy Yuno Ohara to release third photo book
November 10, 2023
/ Tadashi Anahori
We are pleased to see that the impossibly sexy and cute gravure idol and actress Yuno Ohara is to release a new photo book.
The as-yet untitled photo book comes out on January 31 next year. It marks her third photo book, with her debut release released back in 2018.
Three preview images are available at the moment, with more sure to come in the near future.
Yuno Ohara is no stranger to these digital pages. We previous covered her (non-nude) sex scenes in drama series Sweat and Soap last year and The Young Boys with Secrets earlier this year.
The 24-year-old also did a hot shoot for ...
Weekly Playboy celebrates anniversary with photo shoot featuring 57 gravure idols
November 3, 2023
/ Tadashi Anahori
Long-running gravure magazine Weekly Playboy is celebrating its 57th anniversary with a photo shoot featuring the titular number of up-and-coming gradols.
The 57 nubile ladies appeared in white swimsuits in a classroom and other settings in the ambitious photo shoot.
Most of the idols are lesser-known names just starting out on their careers.
There is also an accompanying video showing some behind-the-scenes footage.
The "Nippon gravure" shoot, which was done by veteran gradol photographer Luckman, is published over 16 pages of the November 13, 2023, issue, which has Hina ...
Actress and model Kyoko Hinami announces marriage and pregnancy
October 25, 2023
/ Tadashi Anahori
Yesterday, we wrote about that eternal singleton who never stops being cute, the 40-year-old Sayaka Isoyama, who has just released a new photo book.
Now we have yet another piece of evidence to back up what we wrote last week when speculating about Tomomi Morisaki's rumored pregnancy and preparations for marriage: that the majority of celebrity marriages in Japan are shotgun weddings.
The actress and model Kyoko Hinami has announced she is pregnant and married.
The 29-year-old made the announcement via social media on October 23.
Hinami made her debut as a model in 2006, when she was ...
Soon-to-retire gravure idol Tomomi Morisaki is pregnant
October 19, 2023
/ Tadashi Anahori
When top gravure idol Tomomi Morisaki announced her long-rumored retirement, there was speculation about the exact reasons. Was she leaving the entertainment industry for good? Now that she was in her thirties, was she just quitting while she was ahead and before the glamor model offers dried up? Did she want to focus on her general TV celebrity gigs?
It seems that the answer was that classic Japanese entertainer one: romance and a family.
Now, just before the release of her retirement DVD and Blu-ray, comes news reports that the hottie is "seriously dating" a baseball player, Shota ...
Yuno Ohara gets seductive in TV drama Himitsu o motta shonentachi bedroom scene
October 17, 2023
/ Tadashi Anahori
Busty gravure idol Yuno Ohara delighted us last year in the TV drama Sweat and Soap with her erotic scenes that, well, emphasized her mammary assets.
The scenes, as hot and steam as they were, stopped short of showing us actual nudity. For that, you basically have to go to Netflix.
Yuno Ohara is back in another TV drama, in which she is a seductive force on both viewers and her co-star.
In Himitsu o motta shonentachi (The Young Boys with Secrets) (2023), which is showing late on Friday nights on NTV since October 7, she plays the lead, a 19-year-old girl who disappeared three years ...
Gravure idol Yuki Kiyose goes nude in Gekkako
October 9, 2023
/ Tadashi Anahori
This completely passed us by at the time but thanks to the diligent efforts of Nude Asian Film on Twitter/X to chronicle movie scenes, we realized that gravure idol Yuki Kiyose had done a nude scene.
She appears in the low-budget film Gekkako, which was released in Japan in 2022. It is about Ami, played by Yuki Kiyose, who has an affair with a married painter.
It's a full nude scene, but sadly not a sex scene. Rather than showing Yuki Kiyose in action with a lover, it has her posing completely nude for a painting.
Still, her body is as slim yet curvy as you would expect from a gravure ...
Stunning G-cup gravure idol Tomomi Morisaki to retire
October 4, 2023
/ Tadashi Anahori
Alluring jukujo gradol Tomomi Morisaki has previously shown off her naked butt and nipples. What more could she have to show her fans?
Not much, it seems, because she has announced her "retirement release."
There was some confusion about this, perhaps an indication of behind-the-scenes shenanigans or uncertainty on the idol's part. In July, Morisaki held an event to mark the release of her 22nd DVD and denied she was retiring from gravure as had been misreported.
Either way, it appears the timing was right now in the autumn. Her 23rd image DVD and Blu-ray, suitably titled Lady Climax, is ...
Miri Hanai celebrates a 20-year career in gravure
June 26, 2023
/ Tadashi Anahori
Miri Hanai (花井美里) turns 39 this October but these recent photos prove that she's as alluring as ever.
The mature gravure idol and musician has firmly entered jukujo territory, and though she's no longer enjoying the success of her twenties, when she pumping out photo books several times a year at one point during the mid-2000s, she's still got her fans and released a new photo book in 2021.
Known for her busty looks (a J or H cup, depending on the marketing), she made her debut in 2003. That's a 20-year career, a milestone few in her competitive industry achieve, and one that ...
Is future of AI gravure in trouble after photo book withdrawn?
June 16, 2023
/ Tadashi Anahori
It sparked both hype and controversy, and then just as quickly vanished.
When publisher Shueisha released a digital photo book featuring a fully AI-generated gravure model on May 29, it felt like the tipping point of something.
But then netizens were quick to point out that the "model" Ai Satsuki was uncannily similar to a real-life gravure idol, Hikari Kabashima (previously known as Yui Asakura), suggesting the AI was simply recycling images of Kabashima/Asakura from the Weekly Playboy shoot she did (Shueisha publishes the magazine).
Shueisha responded to the controversy by withdrawing ...