It's the usual story. An idol hits 30 and her career is on the verge of waning. What can she do to raise the ante? Oh, right: strip off.
And so it goes that Shoko Hamada has revealed her cute butt to us at the ripe old age of 30.
The former race queen, gravure idol and so-time music idol (yes, we all remember that classic from 2004, "Lolita Race Queen") has dropped her clothes for a photo shoot, and the results are petty fine.
Sure, her butt's a bit flat -- this is Japan, after all -- but it has grab-me-now charm.
Of course, all this flesh is ...
BuzzFeed Japan asked some of the top gravure idols to come into the studio and spill some home truths for them.
Each gravure idol was asked to pose with a notepad telling us what their life was really life.
Here is Nanoka, saying "Life is simple." Apparently she spends her days off just sitting around at home.
Rina Hashimoto dispels one of the myths of her job. "I don't enjoy the locations." While it might seem like paradise to fly to Hawaii or other exotic locations for photo shoots, the reality of the job is apparently less glamorous. You spend all day shooting from morning till night, ...
Some sad news, folks. The lovely Ayame Misaki has got married.
The 27-year-old actress and model apparently tied the knot on July 11 with a 36-year-old man who works as a salesman in energy conservation.
The couple met last May at a mahjong game run by married friends. As the game wore on, Ayame became attracted to the man. They started seeing each other last summer.
Ayame Misaki made her professional debut at 15 and has starred in some major films like the movie adaptation of Attack on Titan.
She was in the lesbian soft-core porn film Girl's Blood (Aka x Pinku), where she played a ...
Sometimes it can be hard to hold back. You see a hot girl in close proximity and you may have to force yourself not to try to grope her. Being under the influence of alcohol doesn't help either.
What if this was a sultry gravure model?!
But it it's okay if it's a professional, right? This "bust booster" expert has helped 30,000 women increase their bust size by massage techniques. She demonstrated this on Japanese television with gravure model Anna Konno, whose breasts are already more than impressive.
In other words, Anna Konno had her F-cup breasts groped on TV for the benefit of ...
What's better than one gravure idol? Fifty gravure idols!
In June, Weekly Playboy brought together fifty of Japan's top scantily clad bikini models for what must surely be the photo shoot of the year.
How many do you recognise? Many of the hottest gravure ladies are present and correct, including Yuka Kuramochi, Nanoka, Saya Kataoka, Saki Suzuki, Hikaru Aoyama, Hitomi Yasueda, Miko Terada, Aya Hazuki, Rin Tachibana, Yuka Someya, Iroha Yanagi, Ayuka Terada, Ikumi Hisamatsu, Rina Toeda, Fumina Suzuki, and more.
We've included a sampling of the resulting shoot. You can really see the range ...
The Japanese cosplay world was in shock on June 29th when one of the most up-and-coming cosplayers, Nekomu Otogi, announced her surprise marriage at the age of just 20.
Not only that, her new husband is a mangaka. And 31 years her senior! Yes, Kosuke Fujishima is one lucky, lucky guy.
Oh, and she's pregnant. Yes, this is the classic dekichatta kekkon, or shotgun wedding. Don't worry, Nekomu, you are in fine company -- everyone from Meisa Kuroki to Eriko Satoh.
But seriously, is this even legal? Apparently Fujishima, best known as the creator of Oh My Goddess!, ...
Mitsu Dan is no stranger when it comes to nudity and showing us pretty much everything she's got.
Even as she gets older (she's now a ripe 35) and goes more mainstream, she still seems unafraid to shed her clothing.
While he days of appearing in soft-core bondage movies are likely behind her, a recent spread in a weekly magazine featured deliciously nude shots of Mitsu Dan taken over the course of the last 12 months. Her honeypot body is as curvy as ever.
Care to spend a year in her sumptuous ...
Following a sex scandal (alleged prostitution!), the gravure idol Shoko Takasaki has made her porn debut on the Muteki AV label, which specializes in porn featuring former idols and actors.
Ahead of her debut as "Shoko Takahashi" (changing her names for legal reasons after she left her previous agency), our voluptuous lady posed semi-nude for some ravishing shots...
Though there was some confusion over the rumors of Takasaki's switch from gravure to porn, the naysayers have been proved wrong and these images reveal what a delight the results appear to be...
Behold some initial ...
What are the dark secrets of the entertainment industry in Japan? Here is our subjective list.
1: Sex
Despite the control exerted by talent agencies over idols' private lives (who they can and cannot date, or in the case of some groups, not letting them date or have sex at all), the truth is that there is plenty of sex happening -- it's just not all that pleasant or consensual.
Makura eigyo (sleeping with people to get ahead, like the casting couch) is rampant at many levels of the gravure and idol industry, with female models and entertainers frequently having sex with older male managers ...
Rio Uchida is a gravure idol with a cult following for her foxy body and cute ass.
She has also become known to non-readers of the gravure weekly magazines for her role in the Kamen Rider Drive series.
The 24-year-old minx (and college graduate) has recently done a spread in Taiwan for Young Jump magazine.
Man, those legs. Imagine taking a short vacation from Tokyo to Taipei while accompanied by this beauty.
Perhaps Taiwan should use Rio Uchida as its official tourist advertising idol? We imagine it would send men scuttling to the airports in no ...
