While Japanese porn stars are often described euphemistically in the mainstream media as "sexy actresses," major apparel brands think nothing of hiring adult video performers to front campaigns for them (though this is not without some controversy).
And so we have Minamo modeling for top lingerie brand Ravijour.
This is not a new campaign per se. The 25-year-old JAV superstar has been modeling for Ravijour since at least 2023, as we gleefully reported at the time.
Originally a gravure star who worked under the name Shizuku Taiyo, the mononymous stunner made her porn debut in 2021 and ...
Rarely have we seen a debut like it. In early 2025, Kanna Seto burst onto the Japanese adult video industry scene and immediately made her mark with those huge breasts, girl-next-door looks, pale skin, and slim body.
Fans instantly hailed her incredible combination of come-hither sexual allure and sweet, natural beauty, to say nothing of her J-cup breasts.
Incredibly, the Kanagawa native is still just 21 years old. She made her gravure debut in autumn 2024 with a swimwear shoot for Weekly Post, quickly followed by her first AV in January 2025.
She has already released two print photo ...
Gendai Business recently published a two-part in-depth interview with three Japanese adult video stars: Riho Shishido, Rena Momozono, and Uta Miyoshi.
We have translated and edited some highlights from the interview.
The article focuses on these three porn stars as examples of young women who went to prestigious universities (of which there are quite a few) but chose to embark upon a different career path to their paths. Instead of a bank or trading company, they elected to enter the competitive and grueling AV industry.
Shishido (24) and Momozono (29) are already veterans, but Miyoshi ...
The Japanese porn star Rina Kago (雅子りな) has stoked controversy by going off on an online rant about her dislike of Taiwanese people.
The 24-year-old adult video performer released a bizarre flurry of tweets on March 9 with a series of stark pronouncements that all Taiwanese people are trash, and that she doesn't want them to watch her AV releases.
"Taiwanese men make my skin crawl," she declared on X, apropos of nothing. She described Taiwanese food as smelling like piss and their language as unpleasant, and that she would "kill the dirty Taiwanese trying to enter Japan."
She ...
Controversy has erupted online over a Japanese porn film about a female volunteer in a disaster zone, with many expressing outrage at the premise.
The 138-minute adult video (START-460) by SODstar and SOD Create stars Haru Shibasaki and is directed by Chinpo Dazai.
Sexual Relief: A Disaster Rescue Worker with a Strong Sense of Justice Staying in an Evacuation Shelter Accepts Group Creampies as Part of the Month-Long Relief Effort was first released on December 2, 2025, followed by a January release for physical formats. The premise is, like the best AVs, summed up in the long ...
Long before we started Tokyo Kinky, we used to live in a different kind of kinky -- or rather, Kinki, as Kansai is also known (to amusing effect, unless you are a university bearing that name).
And it's tales like this that make us pine for our former stomping ground in Osaka.
We've been trying to find out more about a notorious site in woodland near the Yodogawa, the river running from Osaka to Kyoto, that is a homeless encampment. While that is not atypical for large rivers (Tokyo's Sumida River used to be similar, for instance,), this location is different because it has become what is ...
It's even a really original and kinky scenario, or a desperate attempt to make a hit on a low budget.
The latest Japanese adult video release by Karin Kitaoka sees her play a schoolgirl who is so horny that she has sex with a chair. That's pretty much the whole setup. But it's a good one.
School is over. She's in the classroom, feeling all horny and hormonal, and she starts to pretend she's kissing a male classmate and licks her chair and desk, which eventually evolves into full-on intimacy with the furniture.
She begins with a recorder, which is naturally uses to probe her vagina. ...
The Japanese porn star Satsuki Toyooka has announced on social media is suffering from a rare illness.
On February 12, Toyooka announced on X that she was undergoing chemotherapy.
Satsuki Toyooka worked under the stage name Alice Toyonaka until 2023. She made her adult video debut in 2017 and established a following among fans with her E-cup breasts and peach butt.
In a post on January 30, the 28-year-old already warned fans that she was facing a very serious medical issue: "I'm sorry. I, Satsuki Toyooka, have been diagnosed with a rare illness. I may die. I may no longer be able to see ...
Retired porn star Akari Mitani recently appeared on the Abema variety show Hyena of Love 5, where she revealed some surprising details about her love life.
Mitani, who debuted in 2017 and retired in 2024, released a vast number of AVs during her long and successful career, as well as many sex toys.
Now aged 27, Mitani discussed her love life on the show, which aired January 20. She shared that she never had a boyfriend in the eight years she worked in the industry. Like Kurea Hasumi, with whom she is close friends, she said: "I didn't go out and play, nor did I have sex with any man except ...
Japanese porn star Natsu Hinata has found herself at the center of a social media storm after she uploaded pictures of herself climbing and then lying on top of the metal overhead rack of a train carriage.
She posted the photos on January 17 and 18 on her X account. In the images, she is smiling and enjoying herself while dressed in a schoolgirl costume. The train carriage is empty.
Careful observers will note that the carriage interior seems strangely subdued for a Japanese train, plus the windows are covered in sheeting so you can't see outside. There are very few ads on the walls and, ...
