The Japanese movie The Stars and Moon Are Holes in the Sky stars Go Ayano as a disillusioned, divorced novelist, who fills his life with fleeting affairs and encounters with prostitutes while pining for his ex-wife.
Yes, this is another of those movies where the protagonist is handsome and successful, but we are expected to feel sorry for him because he can't seem to get anything out of the empty sex he has with beautiful women. It's a tough ol' life.
The film features several sex scenes between Ayano and considerably younger actresses: Sakuya plays a doe-eyed student and Akari Misaki a ...
Ai Sayama is a fantastically curvy, veteran Japanese porn star. Now 37 years old, she also works at the "night culture salon" hostess club Red Dragon in Roppongi.
She debuted in the adult video industry in 2007 and has diversified by forming a vocal group with two other porn stars, Anri Okita and Mary Tachibana, and occasional appears in movies.
These tend to be erotic movies or softcore porn (sexploitation). Maniac Driver (2021) is probably the best known among her credits, and stars a number of other leading Japanese porn stars, including Saryu Usui, Ayumi Kimito, and Iori Kogawa.
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Miku Ikuta debuted in the adult industry in 2017 and gained a following until she retired in February 2023. She then announced her marriage in April 2024.
The 28-year-old ex-performer recently sat down for an interview with Spa! about her post-porn life. We have translated some extracts.
Q. You debuted in June 2017. How did you end up on the path to becoming a JAV performer?
Originally, I was a huge fan of Ebisu Muscats (an idol group featuring porn stars). But when I was watching their show, I didn't know they were sexy actresses. I just saw them as pretty girls. I wondered who they were ...
Way back in March last year, we wrote a brief write-up about Akari Fukunaga's nude sex scenes in the movie Hand (2022).
It's a literary pink (sexploitation) film, based on a novel and part of Nikkatsu's revived Roman Porno series.
We've finally got around to taking a closer look at the film and we're glad we did, because it contains several more sex scenes, including one with former musician Natsuko Obuchi.
The titular hand is Akari Fukunaga's as she masturbates with a sex toy.
There's a great sex scene in which she and her lover start having sex on a sofa. He sucks her small Japanese ...
Early last year, we reported on the lawsuit by former porn star Kaho Shibuya over the leaking of her past content.
What happens to your work after you retire is a matter of concern for adult video performers, who have historically lacked control over how production companies and distributors make money off their bodies. It has been common for studios to continue releasing older content in anthologies long after a performer has officially stopped working in the industry.
A new lawsuit at Tokyo District Court shows another side to this issue. The stripper Miyuki Ariga (有賀美雪) is suing ...
Released in late 2023 in Japan, A Spoiling Rain stars the up-and-coming Honami Sato, top male actors Go Ayano and Tasuku Emoto (lucky husband of Sakura Ando), and porn star Minamo.
Honami Sato previously did very revealing lesbian sex scenes in Ride or Die with co-star Kiko Mizuhara, who seemed on a mission to prove she could act by revealing as much of her body as possible.
This might have inspired her casting in A Spoiling Rain, since the film features an explicit lesbian sex scene with Minamo.
The movie is about a pink film (sexploitation) director, a screenwriter, and their lover.
The ...
We spend a lot of time on this blog looking at the latest developments in gravure models, music idols, Japanese porn, and general sex- and adult-related news.
But it's occasionally good to take a step back in time and explore the older content that's out there.
We have been looking at an obscure 1989 film with the improbable yet enticing title of E-Cup Honban II: Hojuku. It stars the well-endowed Satsuki Fuji (藤沙月).
The 59-minute softcore porn (pink) film has multiple nude sex scenes.
The best ones include a bed scene in which her lover kisses her amazing breasts while fingering ...
The beautiful Akari Fukunaga (福永朱梨) is a relatively unknown, 28-year-old Japanese actress whose credits include The Real Thing (2019) and She Is Alone (2021).
In 2022, she had a starring role in the film Hand, a pink movie in Nikkatsu's revived Roman Porno series (made to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the series), though based on a literary source (a novel by a prize-winning female writer, Nao-Cola Yamazaki).
Fukunaga plays 25-year-old Sawako, who has a thing for watching and photographing older men, but starts an affair with a young coworker nonetheless. She must slowly learn ...
The fantastically titled I Want You, Nana-chan, Give Me a Bite was released in Japan in 2021 and stars porn star Yura Kano and musician (and ex-AV star) Toko Namiko. After its quiet release in just a few theaters, we are finally catching up with it now.
Directed by Hideo Jojo (who also made the very explicit Believers starring Yui Kitamura), we're not sure the 70-minute film is technically classified as a pink movie but it bears many of the hallmarks of sexploitation.
The low-budget film is about the eponymous Nana (played by Yura Kano), who has to move back home after being fired for ...
We came across an interesting interview with pink movie actress Chisa Hasegawa (長谷川千紗) in the excellent Substack newsletter Tokyo Calling. Here are some highlights.
As regular readers will know well, pink movies (pinku eiga) are softcore porn or sexploitation films that were immensely popular in Japan in the 1960s and 1970s, but were decimated by the rise of hardcore adult video in the 1980s and 1990s (as chronicled in The Naked Director). Nonetheless, the industry is still going, surviving thanks to the dedication of certain performers and producers, and eking out a tiny margin ...
