Former SKE48 idol Momona Kito had such a hit with her first AV release that she was persuaded to make a full career out of it, releasing more films in 2016.
The one-off release on the Muteki label generated a lot of excitement last year and also placed Kito (performing under the name Yua Mikami) firmly in the growing list of AKB and sister group members who had "graduated" onto careers in Japanese porn, which given the dark side of the idol industry (mafia involvement, managers grooming idols for sex) is not such a leap in a sense.
Momona Kito/Yua Mikami has now posed for some nice hair ...
We previously covered the slinky, slutty delights of Yuki Mamiya, aka Yuki Mogami.
The gravure idol is an occasional actress, appearing in such masterpieces as the soft-core pono Chotto Kawaii Iron Maiden.
She has already done semi-nude (butt) shots and some very revealing gravure idol "image videos".
But in May 2015 she did a hair nude (full frontal) shoot for Shukan Gendai, shot by the legendary Hajime Sawatari. He is a famous photographer but also does these hair nude shoots from time to time, such as with AV actress Yuu ...
It's been a long time since we did a regular "idol of the week" post but here's a great one to whet your appetites and make up for our tardiness.
The shapely Anri Uda certainly made an impression on us when she posed for an (unfortunately censored) shoot for Weekly Playboy earlier in the year.
That's one sure-fire way to make your gravure debut. Sadly the uncensored images are only available in the actual magazine.
We love her body: curvy, but without a bust that's too overloaded.
Born in 1991, Anri Uda is ...
Behold the beauty of Eimi Kuroda.
Born in 1988, the haafu model has a Japanese father and English mother.
She is good friends with fellow fashion model and haafu Kiko Mizuhara. They are both Tokyo party girls and like to get up to high jinks, such as impromptu pole dancing.
Back in 2010, when she was still 22 and one would think careful about her future career, she jumped ahead and joined the hair nude club by posing for an entry in the Shincho Mook series of Gekkan photo-books. A series of alluring shots by Hajime Sawatari showed off her body -- all of it.
The choice ...
The actress Mai Kitajima has been in the news recently. She has currently gone through a trial surrounding the paternity of the son she supposedly had with her former husband, former Hikari Genji idol Mikio Osawa.
It seems Mai Kitajima was an active lady and had an affair with someone else, and their son was raised as Osawa's but in fact DNA testing has now categorically proved he is not related. The boy is 18.
Osawa and Kitajima married in 1996 after a long courtship, ostensibly because she was pregnant. It seems that she wasn't seeing only Osawa during this time. She and Osawa ...
The completionist side to our personality just wants to post this, even though it's not new.
What with all the fuss earlier this year of the porn debut of Momona Kito as Yua Mikami, we want to continue our exploration of this theme: the afterlife of Japan's "respectable" idols.
Remember AKB48's Rumi Yonezawa?
Well, since her departure from the group in 2012, it seems her career hit hard times. So many idols are processed through the well-grease machinery of the industry that there will inevitably be casualties that fall by the wayside.
And given the open secret that idols ...
Rie Miyazawa's photo book Santa Fe came out in 1991, making the hair nude photo-book genre very famous. Santa Fe was a huge hit for Rie Miyazawa and photographer Kishin Shinoyama.
It then became popular for young stars to announce their maturity through hair nude shoots -- plus a way to relaunch their career, as Miyazawa very successfully did.
Compared to other "hair nude" photo books, though, Sante Fe is relatively tame. You only get a glimpse of Rie's bush. (Compare it, say, to Saki Takaoka's hair nude shoot.)
In a curious detail that has only been revealed recently, Miyazawa ...
After a minor career as an actress and model, Chiharu Komatsu did a fantastic hair nude shoot in 1998. She went nude again in 2007.
Before that she got pregnant, married, and divorced in fairly quick succession. (Her child died soon after being born.) In 2008, she gave birth to a son, though remains unmarried.
Since then she made a comeback as a jukujo adult video star in 2011. In a weird twist, she initially denied her adult career shift on her blog at the end of 2010. Perhaps there was a last-minute contractual issue with MUTEKI.
Regardless, "Kokuhaku" (Confession) came out in 2011 ...
In general, this is a pretty positive blog. But we sometimes have sad news to relate.
After some weeks of media speculation about her health, the actress Naomi Kawashima has died at the age of 54. She was undertaking an operation to remove bile duct cancer.
Kawashima is also one of the most famous actresses to do a "hair nude" photo-book. Unlike her hair nude peers like Rie Miyazawa and Miho Kanno, Kawashima was already in her thirties at this point and it was a way for her to make a comeback.
She released "WOMAN", shot by Tatsumi Watanabe. This was in 1993, at the height of the hair ...
We swiftly became fans of curvy, sultry Machiko Tezuka when she first stripped off for a hair nude shoot in 2013.
Formerly of now disbanded SDN48, the J-cup mistress has gone through several name changes: from Machiko Tezuka (her real name) to Ourei Harada (Gravure debut) to Eiko Maeda (SKE48 debut), and back to Machiko Tezuka (SDN48 debut).
Now the 1986-born Machiko has stripped off again this year for some more photos. She is promoting a new photo book out in October, hence the motivation to take her clothes off again for the tabloids. Hey, we certainly won't complain about some ...
