One of the biggest hits on Netflix right now is the South Korean drama series Squid Game, a high-concept story about a series of games in which the losers die. It’s a fun TV show and well worth watching. But like other viewers, we were particularly interested in the ladies. Jung Ho-yeon is stunning, but…

Yuko Oshima has really changed in the seven or so years since she graduated AKB48 (writing which makes us feel old!). She’s reinvented herself as a serious actress, like her former AKB stablemate Atsuko Maeda. She went off to study in America and got herself a foreign boyfriend when she returned. More recently, the 32-year-old…

The Korean TV show everyone is talking about and streaming is Squid Game but there’s plenty more out there, especially because Netflix is heavily investing in Korean content. One of them is My Name, which stars Han So-hee and Park Hee-see. It’s a dark crime drama about a woman who joins a gang to avenge…

After two seasons of The Naked Director and films like Ride or Die, Netflix is proving that its original Japanese content is the place to go for nude sex scenes. In the film We Couldn’t Become Adults, a Netflix original and now available on the streaming giant, Sairi Ito (伊藤沙莉) shows her beautiful Japanese-sized breasts…

Ex-Nogizaka46 member Sayuri Matsumura gets her breasts groped in the new movie Will I Be Single Forever? (Zutto dokushin de iru tsumori?), which is available on Amazon Prime Video in Japan. In the sex scene, Matsumura lies on a bed while a man tries to get her in the mood by rubbing her breasts vigorously….

We’ve just discovered the Korean movie The Cursed Lesson, which came out internationally in late 2020. It’s a peculiar horror film about yoga lessons that turn strange. Let’s be honest, we were interested less in the plot than in the weird sex scenes. This is intensely athletic, whereby Han Se-min gets gracefully manipulated into a…

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…

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…

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…

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…