Former HKT48 idol Miku Tanaka is trying to build an acting career and has cleverly chosen to do so with a role that gets hot and steamy.
In the TV drama Cinderella Complex, which started airing in Japan from March 1, she has a sex scene with her lover in bed.
Don't get too excited if Mikurin is a favorite of yours: this being a drama on mainstream Japanese TV, there's no actual nudity.
She and her slightly older lover have sex under the sheets, with her nipples and side boob just hidden by his arm. It's quite a tease.
Miku Tanaka was a member of HKT48, the Fukuoka-based sister ...
After tantalizing us with a short yet sexy nude scene in the very first episode, Yuka Kouri is back with more nudity in the Disney and FX series Shogun.
In episode four, we get treated to a proper sex scene. She sits naked in her lover's lap, who promptly lies down on top of her (because it would be frankly rude not to). "I love you, Kiku," he says, and who can play him? They begin to kiss.
The scene is, admittedly, only a few seconds long but is more explicit than the previous one and very sensual. We get nice glimpses of Yuka Kouri's breasts and her legs as her lover lies on top ...
In the FX/Disney series, a new adaptation of the James Clavell bestseller, Japanese actress Yuka Kouri (向里祐香) has a nude sex scene in the first episode.
The 33-year-old actress, best known until now for her roles in local TV dramas and low-budget films, plays Kiku, a courtesan.
She enters a room and then alluringly slips her kimono off a shoulder to expose a breast, playing up to every male fantasy tropes involving Japanese women in one shot. The kimono comes off the second shoulder and we glimpse her other breast.
She then lies naked on top of a man all while another guy ...
The previous episode teased us with a preview that looked good. They didn't lie.
We reported last week about Rikon Shinai Otoko (The Man Who Doesn’t Divorce), the buzzy new TV drama starring ex-AKB48 idol Mariko Shinoda in a post-divorce comeback role as an adulteress, cheekily riffing on her own marital issues (in which she was accused of an affair).
Since it's showing on mainstream Japanese TV, there's no actual nudity -- so don't get too excited if you want to see the 37-year-old in the buff -- but it's pretty explicit for all that, including a doggy sex scene.
And that was just the ...
If you want to recover from a scandal and rebuild your career, one tried-and-tested method is to reinvent yourself: take a different kind of acting role, do something more provocative.
Previously, female Japanese idols, actors, and models in a career slump have dropped their clothes for sexually explicit roles or have appeared in nude shoots. Angelica Michibata's nude photo book after her scandal is a case in point, as was Maki Goto's after her rumored affair.
Former AKB48 idol Mariko Shinoda found herself in a personal and professional pickle when her alleged adultery was exposed in 2022. ...
The gravure model and actress Yuka Someya has reached that ripe thirties jukujo age when every role she gets offered is erotic (previous occupants of this type included Mitsu Dan and Minami Hashimoto).
In the first episode of TV drama Are kara Doshita, she plays a woman who is having an affair with a securities company.
Someya is playing to type here as a seductive woman who has an affair. It seems the way into someone like that's heart (and panties) is to arrive at her day bearing an expensive gift.
This being mainstream TV and not a streamer, there's no actual nudity on display. ...
Busty gravure idol and actress Yuno Ohara has delighted us before with her sexy scenes in TV dramas, such as the late-night show Himitsu o motta shonentachi (The Young Boys with Secrets) earlier in the year and Sweat and Soap last year.
Sadly, these being shown on mainstream Japanese TV, there's no actual nudity, just plenty of bust and shots of her in underwear. As wonderful as that is, we hope she one day goes the full hog with a nude scene (basically, you have to go to Netflix if you want to see female celebrities naked).
With her scenes in a more recent episode of Himitsu o motta ...
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 ...
With the exception of some high-profile series on Netflix, which almost seem to be trying to attract viewers precisely because they are explicit, most Japanese TV dramas have pretty tame sex scenes.
Some of the late-night ones, especially if they are shown on a streamer like Abema, can be pretty erotic, but rarely do not show actual nudity. They tease and titillate, then pull back from putting breasts on screen.
The TV drama Kusuburi Onna to Sundome Onna on TV Tokyo is a case in point, featuring a sex scene between a married couple that doesn't show any nudity.
But it caught our interest ...
Earlier this week, we reported on the latest scandal to hit former Morning Musume member Ai Kago.
A more recent member of the idol group is Haruka Kudo, who is 23 now but joined Morning Musume when she was less than 12 and stayed until late 2017. This obviously meant a large chunk of her teens were spent in the group, which is not a normal way to grow up by any means, but she seems to have recovered well and is now forging a career primarily as an actress.
A few weeks ago, we eagerly wrote about her scenes in the TV Asahi drama around 1/4 in which she strips down to her bra and touches ...
