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Moodyz
, also known as Mr. President, is one of Japan's largest adult video (AV) producers, featuring an extensive catalog of video titles. Company information The Moodyz website, www.moodyz.com, went online in March 2000 and the company released its first videos in September 2000 starting with ''Costume Princess'' starring Maiko Yuki. One of the studios earliest stars was AV Idol Bunko Kanazawa who appeared in her own installment of the ''Costume Princess'' series in December 2000. In October 2002, the company's fortunes were boosted by signing An Nanba to an exclusive contract for Moodyz beginning with her debut video ''Number.1!'' To mark their fifth anniversary in September 2005, the studio released the fantasy costume drama, ''A Queendom of Eros'', directed by KINGDOM and starring Chihiro Hara, Azusa Ayano, Jun Seto, Miki Komori, Shuri Himesaki and Yuna Takizawa. The work's elaborate sets and props made it one of the most expensive adult videos produced. Moodyz is part of the l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
An Nanba
also known as Ann Nanba is a former Japanese adult video (AV) actress who had a long and prolific career in the adult entertainment industry. At the beginning of 2009, the DMM and Amazon sites both listed more than 250 DVDs available under her name. She retired from AV work in 2008. Life and career AV debut and Moodyz An Nanba was born in Tokyo on March 7, 1984. She says she was very outgoing as a high-school student and looked much older than her age. She had met scouts from the AV industry often but only decided to begin an AV career after she was robbed and needed the money. She had done some gravure model work for Bejean a few months before and she thought she was again doing photographs for a magazine and was shocked when she realized it was a video shoot. The title of her debut video, ''Number.1!'', released in October 2002 by Moodyz when she was 18, is a play on her name (in Japanese name order, Nanba An sounds close to English "Number One"). Her contract with Moodyz w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bunko Kanazawa
is a Japanese adult film actress, who was mostly active in the late 1990s and early 2000s. She has been called "one of the biggest AV idols in Japan". Life and career Debut—Cosmos Plan Bunko Kanazawa was born April 4, 1979 in Kanagawa prefecture. She reports that as a child she was good at mathematics and science, but horrible in Japanese and English language studies. Her hobbies as an adult include cooking, snowboarding, and karaoke. Kanazawa was introduced to the AV industry by a friend. Her stage name, given to her by her agency, is taken from Kanazawa Bunko, a train station, museum, and historic library in Kanagawa Prefecture, where she lived at the start of her career. Her stage name is sometimes shortened to "Kanabun", a nickname that she dislikes. Kanazawa made her AV (adult video) debut with the Media Station Cosmos Plan label in the August 1997 release ''18 Years Old''. Kanazawa's second video, ''Tough Adolescence'', was a science-fiction sex drama released by th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alala Kurosawa
, also known as Arara Kurosawa, is a Japanese adult video (AV) director who has specialized in producing videos in the Japanese porn genre of bukkake. He has been called the best in the industry at movies and by late 2011 had directed more than 300 adult videos. Life and career Kurosawa began his career as a director with Waap Entertainment as did fellow directors Kingdom and (Jo)Style. Kurosawa directed the first videos produced by Waap, the "Dream Shower" series released in December 1998. In the "Dream Shower" series, Kurosawa combined bukkake with the gangbang genre. After several years at Waap where he directed more than fifty videos, Kurosawa went on to work for the recently formed Moodyz studio where he would direct more than 160 videos. At Moodyz he instituted a new bukkake series, "Dream Woman", which began in January 2002 with the release of with Mayu Koizumi. By mid-2010 the series, all directed by Kurosawa, had reached Volume 78 starring Hitomi Tanaka. While at Mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goro Tameike
is a Japanese adult video (AV) director who has directed more than 450 videos. He was one of the first exponents of the genre in AV. Life and career Goro Tameike was born on March 28, 1964. He graduated from the Law School of Meiji University. After working as an assistant director, he began directing adult videos from as early as 1994 for the Max-A Samansa label. Tameike has had a long association with Soft On Demand (SOD) and he directed the September 1999 SOD release ''34 Year Old Mother Mariko'', the debut video of his future wife, Mariko Kawana. Japanese AV columnist Kemuta Otsubo marks this as one of the earliest adult videos in the "mature woman" (熟女) genre although older women had previously appeared in theatrical porn films. Tameike was to take the "Beautiful Mature Woman" (美熟女) genre as his own. He has said in an interview that a Mature Woman is not the same as an "old woman", the Mature Woman has become beautiful through her life experiences. When SOD d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rin Aoki
is a Japanese gravure idol, gravure model, AV idol and striptease, 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 ... [...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 f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hideto Aki
is a Japanese adult video (AV) director who has directed more than 300 movies since 1998. Life and career Hideto Aki was born in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan in 1970. He tells how AV Idol Hitomi Kobayashi came to his neighborhood video rental shop when he was 17 and he shook hands with her and more than 10 years later he still remembered how small and cute her hand was. He said about the event (in his 1999 "Diary"): "At the time I didn't even imagine that I would do this kind of work. Now, I can't imagine doing anything else." Although he says he always enjoyed pink films, especially the "Four Devils" (or "Four Heavenly Kings of Pink"), he is doubtful about trying to use dramatic stories in AV. He prefers to work in the documentary style much used in Japanese porn, feeling that fiction and sex don't mix well ("If so, it is better owatch pink cinema"). He says he has to do it sometimes when the production side wants it or if they are using a famous actress but he describes drama ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
(Jo)Style
otyle is a Japanese adult video (AV) director who has supervised more than 300 productions during his career. Life and career otyle began his profession directing AV at the Waap Entertainment studio which also fostered the careers of Alala Kurosawa, KINGDOM and K*WEST. At Waap, he continued the bukkake-themed ''Dream Shower'' series which had been initiated by Kurosawa in 1998, starting with Volume 37 in January 2002. He also became well known for directing two other series at Waap, "Semen by Female Teacher" (ザーメンby女教師) and "The Condominium of the Big Breast Wife" (巨乳マンション). When the new studio, S1 No. 1 Style, was founded in November 2004, otyle directed Akane Mochida in her debut video ''New Face'', one of the first set of eleven videos released by the company on November 11, 2004. He continued directing at S1, compiling a record of more than 75 videos for the studio by late 2011. otyle was one of 14 directors invited to compete in the 3rd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rinako Hirasawa
is a Japanese AV idol and ''pink film'' actress. She has appeared in award-winning ''pink films'', and was given a "Best Actress" award for her work in this genre in 2007. Life and career Hirasawa had a part-time job at the video arcade in Tokyo's Ōkura Theater, a long-running venue for ''pink film''s, and became curious about the genre through the posters. She entered the entertainment field in 2003 through AVs where she specialized in the S&M genre while working for such major AV studios as Moodyz, Soft On Demand, CineMagic and Wanz Factory. After she had appeared in over 40 AVs, Hirasawa made her ''pink film'' debut in director Shinji Imaoka's ''Frog Song'' (2005). Hirasawa played the role of Kyōko, an aspiring comic book artist who works as a prostitute. The film was named the Best Film of the year, and Hirasawa was given the Best Actress award, second place, at the Pink Grand Prix. A few months later, in October 2005, she starred in the sex comedy ''The Strange Saga o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hokuto Corporation
DMM.com, formally , 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 DMM 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 had a period of rapid growth from the time of its foundation with sales going from 5.1 billion yen (about $50 mill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hotaru Akane
also known as and was a Japanese actress, HIV/AIDS activist, and AV idol. She was active in many media formats in Japan including mainstream theatrical film, and was a popular blogger. Her adeptness at female ejaculation in adult videos (AV) earned Akane the title, "''Shiofuki'' Queen". (Interview) She retired from AV work in 2008. Life and career AV debut Hotaru Akane was born in Osaka, Japan on 25 October 1983. Akane's early appearances were under the stage name Anna Akizuki, and she debuted in AV using this name in an ensemble performance in the February 2004 adult video (AV) ''Faithful Dog 'Saseko, which won the award for Best AV Title at the 5th Takeshi Kitano Awards. By June 2004, she was appearing in solo videos such as ''Milky Sports'' for the Milky Prin studio. Later that year she was performing in featured actress videos for the major studios Wanz Factory and Moodyz. The November 2004 ''cosplay''-themed ''Uniform Collection / Anna Akizuki'' had Akane donning a var ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yua Aida
is a former Japanese model and AV idol. Life and career Early life Yua Aida was born in Aichi Prefecture, Japan, on 12 August 1984. Aida was an active girl and involved in many sporting activities during primary and middle school. Tennis was her strongest sport throughout middle school. In high school, she changed her focus from sports to art, an interest she attributes to her mother. Aida reports that exposure to nude models while oil painting helped her to be more comfortable when she began her AV career. After her graduation from high school, Aida began working at a part-time job. At this time she was scouted by an AV talent agency while shopping in Tokyo's Shinjuku neighborhood. Aida says that she was not impressed with the talent scout, but when she met the company president, she thought, "This guy is really great. I’m gonna work here!" AV career Yua Aida debuted in photo layouts in 2003, and made her AV debut in the January 2004 DVD release ''Pichi Pichi'' for Max-A. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |