Sometimes the oldies are the best. We all love our sexy idols today but I also enjoy a good perv over the ladies big in the 1980s and early 1990s. Their bikinis might not be as hot. The shots might be a little old-fashioned. But man, they still look damn fine! Here's a small selection of some of the best of Japan's nostalgic idols! Kanako Nakajo (b. 1973) is a former gravure model who made her debut in 1991. She got married to a baseball player and left the entertainment world in the late 1990s. The actress Atsuko Asano (b. 1960) was big in the 1970s from her teenaged ...

Remember back in June when Megumi blogged about the pink movie theater Okura in Ueno that was closing down (to re-open as a "modern" porn cinema, including for women patrons)? Tokyo Reporter managed to capture the final day closing events (oh, why do I have a regular job?!). After five decades of providing the citizens what they want, the curtains came down on a landmark of porn history in Japan... Here's a couple of sample photos but you can check out more on his ...

Famous pink movie (sexploitation) theater Ueno Okura Theater is to shut its doors in August, bringing to an end fifty-nine years of sex history. A new cinema will be built in front of the old building. Okura first appeared in northeast Tokyo in 1951 and started showing pink movies from 1962. Despite its age it still attracts many old fans to its weekly three-movie schedules, with some 2,000 visitors per week. However, since the last decades saw the rise of video and then DVD, the pink movie theaters, once a staple of Japan's sex industry. There were some 300 theaters at its peak but now ...

It's time to go back in history and prove that the Japanese have always been an erotic lot. Do you all know the tale of Sada Abe (阿部 定)? Born in 1905, she is infamous as the prostitute/maid who asphyxiated her lover and boss, Kichiro Ishida, in an inn after days of continuous sex. Kichiro was the owner of the eel restaurant where Sada worked and he soon seduced his employee. They made love for the first time to the accompaniment of geisha singing, before eventually decamping to the 1930s equivalent of a love hotel, where they stayed for four days screwing non-stop. After ...