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AV Open
AV Open is a major awards contest for the Pornography in Japan, Japanese adult video industry. It went from a limited sales contest in 2006 to become, via its successor the AV GrandPrix, the major Japanese AV award with nearly 100 participating companies competing for the 2009 awards. The AV GrandPrix awards were not extended beyond 2009 but after a hiatus of seven years, the AV Open award competition was resurrected in 2014. The 2014 AV Open contest ran from 2014 until 2018, when it was once again not extended. No explanation was given for this decision. AV Open Origins The AV Open awards for Japanese adult video (AV) companies were conceived as a means to improve public relations and provide a measure of quality for adult videos on a par with the AVN Awards for the US porn industry. It was the result of a collaboration between Tokyo Sports, a leading Japanese tabloid paper, and the large Japanese porn conglomerate Soft On Demand (SOD). Adult video production companies were invited ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pornography In Japan
In Japan, pornography has unique characteristics that readily distinguish it from western pornography. Pornographic films are known as "Adult video in Japan, adult videos" (AV) in Japan, so Japanese adult videos (JAV) refers to the #Video (JAV), Japanese Adult Video industry. Animated films are referred to as ''hentai'' in English, but in Japan the terms "adult anime" and "erotic animation" (or ''ero anime'') are used. In addition to pornographic videos and magazines featuring live actors, there are now categories of pornographic manga and anime (i.e., ''hentai''), and pornographic computer games (''eroge''; for both PC and game consoles). Reflecting Japan's views on Sexuality in Japan, sexuality and Culture of Japan, culture, Japanese pornography delves into a wide spectrum of heterosexual, homosexual, and transgender sexual acts in addition to unique Sexual fetishism, fetishes and paraphilias. Starting with erotic stories and Ukiyo-e, wood block prints from before the 20th c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rin Aoki
is a Japanese gravure model, AV idol and erotic dancer. She began as a gravure idol and later moved to hardcore video work where she became an award-winning AV idol. Life and career Gravure idol Aoki was born in Yamagata Prefecture on February 28, 1985. She was first scouted in Harajuku as a gravure model in 2002 at the age of 17. Her first gravure video, ''Burst'', appeared in 2003 and she soon became a popular gravure idol. After two years as a gravure model, Aoki decided to enter the adult video scene and signed with the major Japanese AV company S1 No. 1 Style, one of the Hokuto Corporation group of companies. It is reported that her contract guaranteed her an estimated 13,000,000 yen (about $166,000) per movie, a sum greatly above the average even for top AV idols. AV actress Her first AV production with S1, ''K-cup Active Idol Risky Mosaic'', appeared in May 2006 and was directed by Hideto Aki who also directed most of her subsequent videos with S1. She says she ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tadanori Usami
is a Japanese adult video (AV) director. He is credited with directing more than 450 videos in a career spanning over twenty years. Life and career Usami started working as a director in the adult video industry as early as May 1993 with the video ''After School Love'' for the VIP studio. In the mid and late-1990s, he directed a number of videos for HRC and Alice Japan. By May 2003, he was directing regularly for the Moodyz studio, part of the large Japanese porn conglomerate, the Hokuto Corporation. Over the next several years with Moodyz, Usami won a number of awards at the annual year-end Moodyz Awards ceremonies for Hokuto Corporation companies. At the 2004 Moodyz Awards, his video ''Digital Mosaic Vol. 37'' won the top Moodyz Award, and Usami took one of the Director Awards. In 2005 he won the IdeaPocket Award for his video ''First Impression Rena Nagai'' with that company, while in 2006 he took the 2nd Place Best Director Award and won one of the Best Title Awards ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miku Ohashi
__NOTOC__ Miku may refer to , a virtual singer. It may also refer to: People *Miku (みく), the vocalist for the Japanese rock band An Cafe *, member of the Japanese rock band Band-Maid * Miku Ishida (未来), Japanese teen idol * Miku Itō (美来), Japanese voice actress * Miku Kanemura (美玖), Japanese singer and model * Miku Koide (未来), Japanese water polo player * Miku Makita, Canadian ice dancer *, Japanese mixed martial artist * Miku Tanaka (born 2001), Japanese idol group of HKT48 * Miku Tanabe (生来), Japanese idol * Miku Tashiro (未来), Japanese judoka *The nickname of Venezuelan footballer Nicolás Ladislao Fedor Flores Fictional characters * Miku Hinasaki (深紅), a character from the video game series ''Fatal Frame'' * Miku Nekobe (美紅), a character from the manga '' Midori Days'' * Miku Izayoi (誘宵 美九), a character in the ''Date a Live'' series * Miku Imamura (今村 みく), a character in the tokusatsu '' Denji Sentai Megaranger'' * Mik ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hokuto Corporation
, is a Japanese joint stock company involved in the distribution of adult videos (AV) and adult toys. The firm, founded in March 1990, is headquartered in Tokyo at the Ebisu Garden Place Tower. By late 2008, DMM was handling products from more than 150 different adult video studios, making it one of the largest AV distributors in Japan. The company interfaces with the public for sales and information as Outvision. Company information As of July 2007, Hokuto Corporation had 185 employees and total assets of 16,618,000,000 yen (about $166 million). Stockholders' equity was 6,073,000,000 yen (about $60 million) and company capital amounted to 45 million yen (about $450,000). Sales for the fiscal year ending February 2007 were 28,366,000,000 yen (about $283 million) with sales for the 2008 fiscal year extrapolating to about 30 billion yen (about $300 million). Hokuto Corporation had a period of rapid growth from the time of its foundation with sales going from 5.1 billion yen (abo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
K*West
K*West or K*WEST is a Japanese adult video (AV) director who had directed more than 150 DVD productions as of September 2011. Life and career K*WEST, along with several other directors, including Alala Kurosawa, otyle and KINGDOM, got his start at the Waap Entertainment AV studio. During his tenure at Waap, he has directed over 125 DVDs going back to at least October 2002 with the video . Many of his videos for Waap have been on the company's ''Cobra'' label. K*WEST has also directed for other AV studios, including Dogma and occasionally Moodyz In 2006, K*WEST was one of 11 directors invited to compete in the second Dogma D-1 Climax Awards. The resulting videos were released by Dogma on September 16, 2006. His entry for the contest was (labeled D1-201) starring Sarina, Riri Kōda & Aira. K*WEST was once again selected for the Dogma D-1 Climax Awards contest in 2007 with 13 other directors. His entry for the 2007 competition, released on September 15, 2007, was (label ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
China Miyu
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the second-most populous country after India, representing 17.4% of the world population. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and borders fourteen countries by land across an area of nearly , making it the third-largest country by land area. The country is divided into 33 province-level divisions: 22 provinces, 5 autonomous regions, 4 municipalities, and 2 semi-autonomous special administrative regions. Beijing is the country's capital, while Shanghai is its most populous city by urban area and largest financial center. Considered one of six cradles of civilization, China saw the first human inhabitants in the region arriving during the Paleolithic. By the late 2nd millennium BCE, the earliest dynastic states had emerged in the Yellow River basin. The 8th–3rd centuries BCE saw a breakdown in the authority of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akiho Yoshizawa
, often known simply as Acky (あっきー), is a Japanese actress and former adult video (AV) actress, who also appeared in pink film and mainstream (non-erotic) film, as well as television. With a career spanning over more than 15 years and over 1,000 adult film appearances, Yoshizawa was widely renowned as one of the most famous and recognizable faces in Japanese adult entertainment, with an appeal that managed to cross over into mainstream entertainment. She started her AV career in 2003 with the companies Alice Japan and Max-A, and in 2007 she transitioned to studios Maxing and S1 No. 1 Style appearing along with other famous AV actresses like Yuma Asami, Mihiro, Sola Aoi or Megu Fujiura. She was also a member of the idol group Ebisu Muscats between 2008 and 2013. Yoshizawa announced her retirement from AV in late 2018, and her final adult films were released in March 2019. Life and career AV debut—Alice Japan & Max-A Yoshizawa was born in Tokyo, Japan, on March 3, 1984, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CROSS Studio
was a Japanese adult video (AV) studio located in Tokyo at the Ebisu Garden Place Tower. Company information Cross was founded by directors Matsushima Cross (松嶋クロス) and Innjean Koga (インジャン古河) in late 2005, the event being announced at a press conference at a club in Tokyo's Shinjuku district on October 19, 2005. Cross had previously been a director for AV studios Kuki, Max-A and Try-Heart Corporation while Koga had formerly directed for V&R Planning. The studio's first videos, labeled with the production codes CRPD-001 to CRPD-010, were released on November 19, 2005, and included AV Idols An Nanba and Riko Tachibana among the actresses. Matsushima Cross announced his retirement from AV and left the company in June 2007. As of October 2011, the studio had released about 450 original and compilation videos, an average of about six to seven videos per month since the studio's origin in 2005. Cross compilation videos which use scenes from previous orig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wanz Factory
is a Japanese adult video production company located in the Toshima ward of Tokyo, Japan Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asia, Asian mainland, it is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea .... Company information The company was founded in March 2000 and presently employs 20 people. Their adult videos are sold in more than 3,000 stores in Japan. Japanese adult video studios are usually divided into mainstream and independent types, the mainstream or "pro" studios such as Kuki, Alice Japan and h.m.p often being larger and older than the "indie" companies such as Soft On Demand, Cross, Dogma and Moodyz while the latter usually have less censorship and are more adventurous in their offerings. Wanz Factory is one of the indie companies with a specialty in AV Idol videos and large-busted "big boobs" models. The studio releas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maxing
is a Japanese adult video (AV) studio and production company located in the Shibuya ward of Tokyo. Company information Maxing is an independent adult video firm which specializes in videos for sale rather than rental. The Maxing studio was founded in 2006 and released its first set of videos on October 16, 2006. An early coup for the company was the signing of AV Idol Akiho Yoshizawa who had become available in October 2006. Her first video, ''Sell Debut Love Acky'' was one of the premiere set of Maxing videos offered in October 2006. Another success was bringing back Naho Ozawa from retirement and her first video with Maxing, ''Naho Ozawa Encore'', was also part of the October 2006 releases. The company releases about 15 new videos per month and by September 2011, DMM, the video sales and distribution arm of the Hokuto Corporation, listed nearly 700 DVD titles under the Maxing name. In addition to DVD products, by April 2008 the company also began producing videos on Blu-ray d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crystal-Eizou
, known in English as Crystal Image or Crystal Video, is a Japanese corporation involved in the production and distribution of adult videos. Company history Crystal-Eizou was founded in October 1984 and was incorporated in June 1985 at a time when home video recorders were beginning to significantly penetrate the Japanese market and actresses were being elevated into AV Idols. A number of significant figures in Japanese adult video (AV) history have been associated with the Crystal-Eizou company during its long history. Among these was the innovative and controversial director Toru Muranishi (村西 とおる) who later left to start his own company Diamond Visual. Muranishi launched the career of Kaoru Kuroki who debuted at Crystal-Eizou in October 1986 and went on to become Japan's "first high-profile AV actress". Kuroki left Crystal-Eizou to join Muranishi at his new company but a few years later the company found another main draw in Ai Iijima who debuted with them in 199 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
