She promised. She delivered. Formerly of AKB48, Yuka Masuda left the group in 2012 over a sex scandal. She then tried to make a gravure comeback with limited impact but has continued to work as an actor and a singer. This time, she has definitely made a lasting impression. In the second episode of the new season of Netflix drama The Naked Director, which explores the Japanese porn industry in the 1980s through the story of legendary producer Toru Muranishi, 29-year-old Masuda does some great sex scenes with nudity. (If you're pressed for time, skip to the 8-minute and 20-minute marks of ...

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We were already excited about the upcoming second season of the Netflix Japanese drama The Naked Director because of the pedigree of the first season, which lived up to its promise of the porn industry premise and then some with awesome nudity and sex scenes galore. Then came news that the singer Mariya Nishiuchi had been cast as a porn star, offering the tantalizing prospect that she would make her nude debut in the series, which deals with the career of legendary adult video director and producer Toru Muranishi. Now comes a trailer and we are delighted to see former AKB48 idol Yuka Masuda ...

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Following the revelation that singer and actor ISSA had been having an affair with AKB48's Yuka Masuda, his finance, actress and model Sachiko "Judy" Fukumoto (30) has announced via Twitter. This is what ISSA will no longer be getting up close and personal with. Fukumoto was born in America and brought up in Okinawa, hence her slightly non-Japanese (but very lovely) style. The affair, which cost Yuka Masuda her job in AKB48, presumably can continue now and ISSA can console himself with Yuka's younger ...

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One of the hotter members of AKB48 (a group full, with the notable exceptions of Rie Kitahara and Haruna Kojima, of essentially banal looking girls stuffed down us unfortunate Japanese's throats daily with frequently sickening consequences), Yuka Masuda, has been forced to quit her "illustrious" career after it was revealed she was sleeping another minor celebrity, ISSA. The couple met while working together in a musical earlier in the autumn. Her agency continues to deny her relationship with ISSA but she has as good as admitted her abhorrent sin of having sex by announcing her sudden ...

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