is a Japanese

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(AV) director and the founder of two AV studios. With a career dating back to 1985, he is one of the pioneers of the Japanese adult video industry.

Life and career

Toyoda was born on November 10, 1952. He made his adult video directorial debut with the Kuki company in May 1985 with the video starring Midori Takano (高野みどり). By the mid-1980s he was working for Samm (later to become h.m.p.), where he is credited along with others for changing the direction of that company from its early emphasis on S&M videos. One of the videos he directed for h.m.p. was the 1990 ''Kozenwaisetsu 7'' starring early

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. He also directed videos for the

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studio in the 1990s.

Wild Side - King of Realism

Frustrated by the close censorship of Japanese adult videos under the

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(NEVA), also known as "Viderin", the voluntary ethics group which regulated most of the AV companies in the 1980s and 1990s, Toyoda started up his own company using the label in 1996. The company, , located in

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ward, was founded in April 1996 and "King of Realism" (the Japanese name also means "King Lear") began issuing videos in August 1996. In the years following other labels were also created including in September 1997, in July 1998, and "GOLD" in April 2000, in November 2000, "D's" in January 2001 and "SILVIA" in October 2002. The company issued about a dozen new videos per month including installments in such popular series as "Eromesu" (凌辱エロメス), "Royal Anal Kingdom" (名門アナル王国) and the

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series "Exodus Gold" (エクソダスゴールド). The major Japanese AV retailer DMM (part of the

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)listed over 600 DVD titles and more than 500 VHS titles for Wild Side in mid-2010. Throughout its history, Wild Side and the "King of Realism" label were associated with videos portraying

, anal sex, and in its later years pregnant sex. On November 12, 2004, Wild Side released the video (DWI-01), directed by Toyoda and starring Natsuki Hatayama (or Hatakeyama) (). The first part of the video shows the pregnant actress having sex with various actors but the second part depicts a complete sequence of her giving birth at home. Other actresses who appeared in Toyoda-directed videos for Wild Side include

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, Chihiro Hara and

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Opera

After 20 years as an AV director, 10 years after starting the "King of Realism" label, and a false colon cancer scare, Toyoda closed Wild Side and started a new adult video company, , in October 2005. In September 2011, the DVD distributor DMM listed 327 titles for Opera on its website. Toyoda is the chief director at Opera and had directed some 150 videos for the studio by that same date. For the 2009

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competition, the Opera entry was the scatology video , directed by Toyoda and starring Chika Shinozaki.

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