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,…

Do you love panties? Do you want to hold panties? If you answered yes to the two questions above, you may well want to have a go at playing Pan Pan, a new game demo spotted on Steam Greenlight. In it, you play someone who races around “punching” panties in an anime-like landscape. In the…

It’s almost the New Year holidays here in Japan, a time when everyone gathers with their family, eats nice food, and watches a lot of bad TV. Likely to feature on one or more of those shows was former SMAP singer Masahiro Nakai, among the most famous male celebrities in the country but whose career…

A few weeks ago, we posted about the nude photo book by Manami Shindo. The key story was that Shindo, who speaks five languages, was going nude just as she reached the age of 30 — that richly rewarding threshold after which woman become ripe jukujo. But in addition to sharing some highlights from the…

Sendy Ariani, an idol from JKT48, the Jakarta-based sister group spin-off from AKB48, was fired in November for “inappropriate” actions. As usual, AKS did not elaborate and kept the scandal shrouded in ambiguity, though it hardly takes a genius to spot the clues. That was back in November. A few weeks later, some of the…

We stumbled upon this fun story about condoms being distributed to teenagers in South Korea. After reading so much about “sexless Japan” in recent years, it is heartening to see that our neighbor is also trying to combat similar issues of either not having enough sex or doing it in dangerous ways. Instinctus is a…

A few weeks ago, we posted a preview about the gravure idol Sayaka Nitori’s highly anticipated debut photo book. The semi-nude photo book shows off the model’s nipples for the first time, though nominally covered by wet clothing. We also noted the meteoric rise of the idol and how she has done it as a…