The relatively little-known actress Kurumi Nakayama (中山来未) has several nude scenes in the aptly titled Naked Angel: The Red Room, a film released in Japan in 2021 and based on a short story by Edogawa Ranpo. There are several sex scenes, including one in a public restroom, and other scenes that apparently required Nakayama to…

There’s exhibitionism and then there’s Chinese exhibitionism. Yes, they do roshutsu so much better on the mainland. As this sexy, slinky angel of a woman proved by casually shedding her clothes in a branch of Ikea in Beijing. After all, this is supposed to be a place where you buy the stuff to furnish your…

Despite her now-established mainstream popularity, the Japanese actress Fumi Nikaido has shown herself gamely willing to strip off for the right role. After some previous nudity in the film River’s Edge, for example, she did sex scenes in My Man, No Longer Human, and Tezuka’s Barbara. And she does all this while fronting major advertising…

Picture the scene. You’re driving down the highway and suddenly you look up at the advertising billboard overlooking the road. Rather than the usual commercial for that drink or car you’ll never buy, it’s playing porn. Japanese porn. This is what greeted drivers passing through Jakarta, Indonesia, last month. On the large advertising screen, in…

The Japanese actress Yoko Shimada (島田陽子) has died, aged 69, from complications of colorectal cancer. She was best known internationally for her English-speaking role in the miniseries Shogun from 1980, adapted from the James Clavell bestseller. Shimada rose to fame in Japan in the 1970s as an actress and singer, and then capitalized on her…

The newbie gravure idol Kanna Seto (瀬戸環奈) has only just launched her career with a shoot for Weekly Post in October, but her first photo book is already announced. The J-cup stunner is also jumping up a few rungs on the career ladder by opting to go nude for her debut photo book, emerald, which…

In the age of #MeToo, the job of the intimacy coordinator in film and television has risen to prominence in the West. What about Japan? With the recent scandals over the likes of directors Sion Sono and Hideo Sakaki, documentary filmmaker Yu Kaneko, and actor Houka Kinoshita, concern over sexual predators and harassment is higher…

The Japanese romance film Usotsuki Paradox (sometimes Usotsuki Paradokusu, or Liar Paradox) stars Nami Motoyama (本山なみ) and features a number of explicit nude scenes. Though the film is now almost 10 years old, we wanted to highlight some of these. They include a nude bathing scene between Motoyama’s character and her lover, and then a…

The feel-good story of the year has turned out to have an unhappy ending, folks. We made no secret of our joy when an advertising display screen in Indonesia was “porn-jacked” so that it started streaming Japanese pornography. The incident happened on September 30th in Kebayoran Baru, South Jakarta, during the rush hour on a…

The South Korean film Serve the People (Inmineul Wihae Bongmuhara), which was released domestically in February 2022, is set in the 1970s in a fictional version of North Korea. Though billed as a romantic drama, it is quite erotic and features several explicit sex scenes. In the best, the 38-year-old Ji An, the female lead,…