The gravure model Momiji Kuribara will release her first nude photo book, Land of the Beautiful Butt, on September 30.
The book is published by Takeshobo, like her recently released fifth image DVD, and Kuribara sat down with Weekly Playboy for an interview featured in the August 10 issue.
The 29-year-old Saitama native has only published digital photo books to date, so her upcoming release marks another milestone in her career.
"I was nervous before the shoot started because it was my first time doing nude work, and the outfits were unlike anything I'd ever worn for glamour shoots ...
What happens to those sexy, leggy race queens (grid girls) when their careers dry up? Well, in the case of Chisato Morishita, they might go into politics. A lucky few switch to grave. Others run bars.
And possibly get arrested for doing so.
Last week, people went crazy about the beautiful, chatty bar manager who was among five arrested in a police crackdown in Kabukicho, Akihabara, and Ikebukuro, and now some details and rumors about her background have emerged.
Tomoko Nagata is accused of operating Wisteria as an unlicensed girls bar in Kabukicho because her female staff were not just ...
We love to rediscovering idols and models we thought had disappeared into the mists of gravure legend. We were initially confused by the return of Sara Oshino, though, since she now writes her name with different characters (おしの沙羅 instead of the more conventional 忍野さら), and weren't sure if it was the same person. This is probably for contractual reasons with a change in agency but a new name also helps boost publicity.
In this case, it further reflects a new part of Sara's appeal -- that's she's now a calligraphy artist as well as a model -- hence the rather fancy given ...
Erika Minatogawa is riding the wave of scandal over her arrest on a drug charge earlier this year to launch a gravure career.
The so-called 32-year-old "Minato girl" and former race queen (grid girl), whose real name is Miho Okumoto, appears in the September 2 issue of Flash and has also released a digital photo book.
The eight-page semi-nude shoot features the alluring model with an H cup playing up to her self-professed femme fatale and party girl image.
Here are some sizzling highlights from the shoot.
Back in May, the tabloids were filled with salacious reports about ...
Former race queen and gravure idol Chisato Morishita is committed to launching a career as a politician for the conservative Liberal Democratic Party.
As reported here before, she stood for election in Miyagi Prefecture in 2021. Though ultimately unsuccessful, she is still hoping to win a seat at the next election. By chance, we actually passed through the area earlier this year and saw lots of posters for her dotting the landscape.
Now aged 42, the unmarried Morishita was one of the biggest gradols in the late 2000s and a regular face on TV. Her last gravure shoot was in around 2019 with ...
The non-fungible tokens boom seems to have petered out internationally. Prices of NFTs skyrocketed but then plummeted over the course of 2022, and many believe the market is over (not coincidentally, the crypto markets has also experienced a crunch in 2022). The art and photography industries may soon move onto the next fad, if they haven't already.
In Japan, NFTs are still something of a thing, though, even if the haven't reached the heights of fame and fortune that they (briefly) attained in other countries.
In 2021, shibari artist Hajime Kinoko created an NFT rope bondage art ...
Happy New Year. We welcome in the Year of the Tiger by checking out a small sampling of the great tora-themed sexy cosplay posted on social media by Japanese cosplayers, gravure models, porn stars, and more.
We start with an obvious choice: Japan's top cosplayer, Enako, whose contribution looked both busty and cozy.
Former AKB48 idol and lingerie model Haruna Kojima, who seems to be visiting Paris at the moment, made do with a croissant pose and some cat cosplay (albeit it in colors/pattern that was more like a cow than a tiger).
Shibari model Cana achieved an intimacy and warmth with ...
Started by Dolly Parton, of all people, the LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, Tinder meme has been floating around social media for a while now. In a nutshell, it purports to show a quartet of images showing different personalities projected of yourself on different types of social media platforms.
Like all big memes, there have been some great and inventive variations posted and shared.
But we think this is the first one based on a Japanese gravure idol.
In this case, it is the comely Kazusa Okuyama who is the inspiration.
We're not sure of the original source of this image -- if you are, ...
When you've got it, flaunt it, as the saying goes.
Sometimes known as the Japanese Paris Hilton, Sari Kato (加藤紗里) is a woman of many talents and careers: grid girl (race queen), cosplayer, actor, model, YouTuber, and even dog trainer. Now 29 years old, she's an all-round tarento (talento) who pops up on television for reasons no one quite knows other than that she is famous for being famous.
While she hasn't (yet) gone down the path of adult video, she's is definitely aware of her sexy (and slutty) looks and exploits them constantly.
Perhaps the most overt examples of this now are ...
For our final post of 2019, we won't do the usual round-up of the year but instead opt for something a bit more fun: sexy Santa cosplay.
Here is a selection of some of the best Mrs Claus cosplay (a genre known in Japanese as Santacos) by various idols and models, as featured in recent seasonally themed photo shoots or selfies.
First up, here is the gravure idol Tomi (or Toumi).
This is cosplayer and idol Amatsu-sama.
And here is Rina Hashimoto.
AKB48's Yuki Kashiwagi has chosen for the cute rather than sexy look, but that's still fine.
Race queen Yu Kikuchi (top) and model Chiyo ...
