We came across an interesting interview with pink movie actress Chisa Hasegawa (長谷川千紗) in the excellent Substack newsletter Tokyo Calling. Here are some highlights. As regular readers will know well, pink movies (pinku eiga) are softcore porn or sexploitation films that were immensely popular in Japan in the 1960s and 1970s, but were decimated by…

So you’ve already got your breast-shaped fortune and your handwritten schoolgirl love letter. The latest item available from Japan’s capsule toy vending machines (gachapon or gashapon), which usually sell collectibles for kids, is a mini denma massager vibrator. As regular readers or avid Japanese adult video viewers will know well, the denma “wand” is a…

It seems like everyone is doing nude shoots these days, from Nana Asakawa to Kyouka, Mariya Nagao, and Aoi Fujino. Nude shoots can be a great way to make a comeback or boost a flagging career, or even, as in the case of Kyouka, go out with a bang. Multilingual gravure idol and actress Manami…

At Tokyo Kinky, we hope we don’t moralize. We like to stay as open as possible, even — and perhaps especially — when the tastes do not match our own. And given the kind of content we share, we are hardly qualified to get on a high horse and start preaching to the masses. As…

Sometimes, things do have a happy ending. When AKB48’s Minami Minegishi shaved her head back in 2013 to apologize for a sex scandal, it prompted immense controversy over the control that management has over idols’ private/person lives, and sparked headlines around the world. Her tearful video, head shaven like a nun, was painful to watch…

It’s not just top businessmen and politicians who frequent the pricey hostess bars of Ginza and elsewhere. Male celebrities also have expensive tastes, including spending time with the attractive younger ladies who (as long as you keep buying them over-priced drinks) will pretend to find your conversation interesting and hint that they might be willing…

We are not as obsessed with haafu models and actors as the Japanese fashion world and mainstream media seems to be, but we do love certain biracial celebrities. One of them is British-Japanese Sonoya Mizuno, who has carved out an impressive career first as a dancer and lingerie model, and then as a serious actor…

Kinbaku (shibari) rope bondage sensei Steve Osada, formerly known as the photographer Dr D Vice, is the inheritor of the Osada name and tying style (Osada-ryu) from Eikichi Osada. The late master is one of the people responsible for making kinbaku known in the mainstream. He staged his first kinbaku performance at a ballet school…

You may never have heard of Marie Tachibana, but pretty much everyone in Kabukicho seems to have heard of her. Perhaps the first thing to remark about her is that she is biracial (her father is American). The second is that she comes from a Christian family (that father was a missionary) — and a…

Public toilets in Japan are sometimes surprisingly exposed, especially the male ones in parks. Instead of an actual door, there’s just an open doorway. The windows are often low. A casual passerby is frequently able to peep in and see men relieving themselves. And if you’re lucky, you might see some scenes like this. We…