The oldies are the goodies. Forget the ever-younger minions of AKB48. There's a goldmine if you just look back a bit in time.
Born in 1974, Chiharu Komatsu (小松千春) is one such nearly forgotten hottie that we wanted to rescue.
The model and actress was popular in the early Nineties but as she got older, sadly her career waned a bit. Not to worry, she has a body to die for -- and she started to show it.
She released hair nude photo books and her cult spiked again.
After a failed marriage, she then had a son out of wedlock and is now a single mom on the cusp of forty. To make ...
We've long been a fan of Yoko Kamon.
The one-time '90s minor actress (probably most notably she appeared in Suicide Circle) then moved into slightly mature idol fame before securing many an adult admirer with her willingness to strip for "hair nude" (full frontal) shoots and appear in softcore porn films.
Now, like another aging but still hot lady like Chiharu Komatsu, she has made the decision to release a porn film. This career move was hardly a surprise, given her increasing appearances in naked photo shoots and sex scenes.
The adult video release is called Deai (Encounter) and ...
Just when you thought she couldn't reveal any more, gravure idol and actress Kokone Sasaki (23) has released a new "hair nude" (full-frontal) photo book.
After shooting soft-core porn films and mountains of Gravure shoots, now Kokone has gone that one bit further, following in the footsteps of Rie Miyazawa and other famous full-nude models.
It was shot at summery Shodo Island in the Inland Sea and includes full nude shots of Kokone on the beach and being at one with nature.
Unfortunately we can't find many images online yet so some nice older ones will have to ...
The old favorites are the best.
We are pleased to welcome actress Saki Takaoka back to the big screen.
Now 40 years old and still a stunner, Takaoka will be performing her first nude scene in 17 years in a new film, Monster, to be released in Japan on April 27.
She is well known for her nude scenes in films in the 1990s (like Crest of Betrayal in 1994 -- see the first pic below) and the "hair nude" (full-frontal nude) photo book one, two, three she released in 1995 in her heyday. (Such celebrity "hair nude" photo books were really popular in the mid-1990s.)
She stopped performing ...
Former sweet and innocent Gravure idol Risa (aka Lisa) Goto has graduated to the big time at last.
After a career that began with drink commercials when still a teenager, Risa has since then had an up-and-down professional life, with bits of acting and prematurely retiring at least once.
So far that most spectacular thing was the "hair nude" shoot she did in 2012. This alone raised many an eyebrow for the former cute girl-next-door idol's fans (and no doubt raised a few other body parts as well). We love the mole on her body, just above her bush.
Now she's thrown in her towel on the ...
Miho Kanno, the much-loved actress and model, has announced she is getting married to fellow actor Masato Sakai.
They have apparently only been dating for three months but I guess, with Miho at 35 and he at 39, they know it's now or never!
Miho became famous very young and was also a singer in her early days. She is probably best known in the west for her appearance in the Takeshi Kitano film Dolls and the Mika Ninagawa film Sakuran (in which she appears briefly nude). Her face is a common sight in advertising as well.
She was also, along with Rie Miyazawa, one of the first ...
We're going a little nostalgic with our idol-gazing this week. It's time to feast your eyes on the voluptuous delights of Chieko Shiratori (白鳥智恵子).
Born in 1975, Chieko was a minor star in the 1990a before she retired for domestic happiness with her husband and child in 2000.
If she still looks anything like these pictures, then you can bet your horses that that's a very happy home ...
This week we take a slow and lingering look at the svelte form of Yoko Kamon (嘉門洋子).
Born in 1980, Yoko Kamon is a model and actress who started appearing in films such as Suicide Club in the Nineties and working as a gravure idol. Her career has slowed down, reducing her mainly to erotic B-movies of late (see example of a nude sex scene below), though she still retains the power to do sexy photo shoots and has kept her cult following.
She also recently became one of those to have dared to do "hair nude" all-nude photos, which are actually much more artistically shot than ...
We love uncovering and sharing with the world the unsung heroines of Japanese ladies!
We often blog about sexy idols but there are plenty of very, very beautiful regular Japanese actresses as well. They don't do gravure style bikini shoots but they still often do nude shoots or very sexy photos. In Japan this isn't seen as degrading or damaging to your acting career, and typically the shoots will be collaborations with famous photographers.
Naoko Watanabe (渡辺奈緒子), born in 1984, is a very attractive actress who, though not a star, has been in several high profile releases, ...
Our last nostalgic idols post was such a hit with the boys that I just had to think of some more.
This time I turned my retro eye to actress and idol Kumiko Takeda. Born in 1968, Kumiko is a voluptuous, well-bosomed lady who starred in plenty of movies and TV dramas throughout the 1980s, along with some ravishingly sexy nude shoots that make today's coquettish AKB48 idols look like children (well, that's because basically they are!). She is famous for her "shell bikini" shoot.
She actually married an American and moved out to the States, thus effectively ending her career in Japan ...
