Not to be confused with the comedy-action movie starring Bruce Willis, Red, known as Shape of Red in English, came out earlier this year in Japan. The R15-rated film stars Satoshi Tsumabuki and Kaho. Based on a novel by the award-winning writer Rio Shimamoto, Shape of Red is an erotic story with several appropriately sensual…

Rola Misaki, aka Rola Takizawa, enjoys only a modest level of fame among Japanese porn viewers but her legions of fans in China revere her as a goddess. The half-Russian, half-Japanese angel officially seemed on the verge of leaving the AV industry in Japan quite quickly but as one of the most popular Japanese porn…

Following Earthquake Bird and The Forest, the latest American movie set in Tokyo is the recently released Lost Girls and Love Hotels. Here’s the official blurb: Margaret finds herself in the glittering labyrinth of Tokyo by night and as a respected English teacher of a Japanese flight attendant academy by day. With little life direction,…

The actress Mao Miyaji is to release a new photo book, her first in 10 years. Aisansan (roughly, Bright Encounter) comes out at the end of December, with preview shots already published in the weekly magazine Friday. Now aged 36 and firmly entering jukujo (MILF) territory, Mao Miyaji is something of an industry veteran. After a…

We have long been an admirer of the actress of 33-year-old Yuki Sakurai, a feeling seriously amplified after we saw her lengthy and explicit sex scene in Call Boy that we blogged about just over a year ago. We mentioned at the time her previous sex scenes in a film called The Limit of Sleeping…

Korea’s hottest female DJ (how many do you know?) has beguiled fans in Asia ever since a video of her DJing went viral earlier this year. But now there’s speculation that DJ Soda is one of the legions of Korean women whose beauty is not natural, but a result of the surgeons’s knife. We can’t…

Back in those glorious pre-COVID days of 2015, we wrote about this awesome South Korean movie called The Purpose of Reunion and its amazing sex scenes with Kim Yoo-yeon. It took us a while but we finally came across some decent screen grabs from the sequel, The Purpose of Reunion 2, and wanted to share…

The Cornered Mouse Dreams of Cheese is a boys’ love (yaoi) manga by Setona Mizushiro. A live-action film version was released in Japan in 2020. It stars Tadayoshi Okura and Ryo Narita in the lead roles. It is directed by Isao Yukisada, who also made River’s Edge, which had great nude sex scenes with Fumi…

Kyoko Hinami (日南響子) really should be more famous than she is. We hope to make a small contribution to fixing this injustice by showcasing her nude scene from the Sion Sono film The Forest of Love: Deep Cut, the seven-episode miniseries that is an extended version of The Forest of Love. Both were released on…

It’s become normal now to see social media avatars and advertising images created with AI technology. But when does this become a problem? And when is it criminal? At present, most of the images look a bit cheap and exaggerated, and are often easy to spot. But they are still alluring, it seems, since a…