is a Japanese
adult video production company with headquarters in the Shinjuku Building,
Shinjuku, Tokyo
is a special ward in Tokyo, Japan. It is a major commercial and administrative centre, housing the northern half of the busiest railway station in the world (Shinjuku Station) and the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building, the administratio ...
.
Company information
Waap Entertainment was founded in 1998 and released its first videos in December of that year.
The company specializes in single actress videos and is best known for its series which premiered on December 17, 1998 with ''Dream Shower No.1'' starring Izumi Maki and directed by
Alala Kurosawa.
The series is part
bukkake
is a sex act in which one participant is ejaculated on by multiple participants. It is often portrayed in pornographic films.
Bukkake videos are a relatively prevalent niche in contemporary pornographic films. Originating in Japan in the 198 ...
and part
gangbang and has appeared in more than sixty installments on the company's Beauty label. The studio is also recognized for having developed several prominent modern AV directors including
Alala Kurosawa,
otyle,
K*WEST and KINGDOM.
When
S1 No. 1 Style
or just S1 (エスワン) is a Japanese producer of adult videos (AV) which has its offices in Tokyo's Meguro Ward. The company is best known for retailing its adult videos under the Fanza brand, an affiliate of DMM.
In the past 15 years sinc ...
introduced the new less concealing digital mosaic style of censorship in late 2004, Waap followed soon afterward with their own videos. Waap Entertainment produces about 10 new videos per month and the
Hokuto Corporation's AV retailer DMM listed more than 1500 DVD titles available under the Waap Entertainment name as of September 2011.
The company's reputation has extended to the
Village Voice
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where columnist Johnny Maldoro named Waap's video ''Semen Club 2'' () starring Yui Kayama as the Bukkake Best of 2003. Waap has also expanded into another area of entertainment with game, puzzle and photo collection apps for the
iPhone featuring some of the studio's top models.
Labels
Waap has used a number of different labels for its videos since 1998:
* Beauty
* Boin Club
* Cobra
* Dragons Gate
* Encore
* Fearless
* Foxy
* Gone
* Jelly
* Kohshiro
* Milk
* Select
* Shoot
* So
* Star Box
* un/limited
* Washing Machine
Directors
Prominent directors at Waap Entertainment include:
*
otyle
* Goemon
* KINGDOM
* Koushirou
*
Alala Kurosawa
*
K*WEST
Actresses
Popular
AV Idol
An or is a type of pornographic film actress in Japan. It is a sub-category of the idol culture in Japanese pop entertainment. AV idols work in the pornographic business, often both as an actress as well as a model as the video performance ...
s who have appeared in Waap Entertainment videos include:
*
Bunko Kanazawa
* Kirari Koizumi
* Marin
* Aika Miura
* Momoka Nishina
*
Nao Oikawa
*
Maria Ozawa
* Asuka Sakamaki
* Riko Tachibana
* Tsubomi
* Akira Watase
*
Maria Yumeno
is a Japanese pink film, adult video (AV) actress and gravure model. In 2003, she was called one of Japan's highest-earning AV performers and "probably its most famous." Many of her movies emphasized her large bust and thin body.
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Series
Some popular Waap series:
* Dream Shower ()
* Slut Actress ()
* Your Masturbation Will Help You ()
AV Open / AV Grand Prix
For the 2006
AV Open competition, Waap entered both the Main Stage and the Challenge stage. Their Main Stage entry was ''Only One - Miracle Woman'' (), video OPEN-0616, featuring several amateur actresses. In the Challenge Stage, the company nominated ''Divide My Pleasure'' () directed by Kirin, starring Ren Hitomi and Yuri Ueno, and labelled OPEN-0652.
Waap Entertainment was also one of the 19 companies which submitted entries for the 2007
AV Open contest. Their entry ''Deep Lesbian & Hot Semen & Black Fuck'' (), labelled OPEN-0717, was an interracial video starring Marin and Shiho, and directed by
K*WEST. which finished in 8th place overall and won a Lily Franky Honorary President Prize.
The company was also one of the participants in the
Hokuto Corporation sponsored 2008
AV Grand Prix
AV Open is a major awards contest for the 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 t ...
with their entry ''Shall We Fuck x10'' (), AVGP-042, starring Lemon Tachibana and directed by
K*WEST and Goemon. In the 2009 AV Grand Prix, Waap took one of the Special Awards Fetish Video for ''Tsubomi - Semen Club'' (), AVGP-148, with Tsubomi, directed by Takuan.
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Mass media companies established in 1998
Japanese companies established in 1998
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Mass media companies based in Tokyo