What happens after gravure idols hang up their bikinis and try to move on in their careers is a question that fascinates us. Most crash and burn, but in the meantime manage to find a nice husband in the industry who will take care of them. The tale of Aki Mizusawa is an interesting one. Born in 1959, she was a gravure pin-up during the 1980s. In between winning the hearts of men around the nation, she found time to have an affair with Jackie Chan, a well-known philanderer, in Spain in 1984. She was also working as a singer during this time. She sealed her sex siren reputation by ...

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 ...

Probably the most famous erotic commercial photographer in Japan is Kishin Shinoyama. Like Araki he's a bit of an enfant terrible even just recently got into trouble with the police for shooting a nude session with JAV porn star Saori Hara in public. Typical of Tokyo cop efficiency, the photo book was already long published by the time they realized it included naked photos taken outside at night. He's known for taking lots of clothed and semi-clothed shots of idols and models, but his mainstream fame was secured by very revealing photo books featuring actresses like Rie Miyazawa and ...