AV Open

	AV Open 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 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. 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 to enter a candidate video in the contest and the video with the most number of sales during a set period would be the winner. The first prize award was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	AVN Awards The AVN Awards are film awards sponsored and presented by the American adult video industry trade magazine '' AVN'' (''Adult Video News'') to recognize achievement in various aspects of the creation and marketing of American pornographic films. They are often called the "Oscars of porn". The awards are divided into over 100 categories, some of which are analogous to industry awards offered in other film and video genres and others that are specific to pornographic/ erotic film and video. ''AVN'' sponsored the first AVN Awards ceremony in February 1984. The award ceremony occurs in early January during the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo in Las Vegas, Nevada. Since 2008, the ceremony has aired in a form edited for time on Showtime, which is usually broadcast in a 90-minute time slot. Awards for gay adult video were a part of the AVN Awards from the 1987 ceremony through the 1998 ceremony. The increasing number of categories made the show unwieldy. For the 1999 ceremony ''AVN ... [...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 varie ... [...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 dire ... [...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 for ''D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Miku Ohashi __NOTOC__ Miku may 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 Tanabe (生来), Japanese idol Miku Tashiro (未来), Japanese judoka The nickname of Venezuelan footballer Nicolás Ladislao Fedor Flores Fictional characters , virtual singer * 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 show ''Denji Sentai Megaranger'' * Miku Kohinata, a character in the show ''Senki Zesshou Symphogear'' * Miku (390), a character in t ... [...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 million ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	*KWest** KWest or KWEST is a Japanese adult video (AV) director who had directed more than 150 DVD productions as of September 2011. Life and career KWEST, 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. KWEST has also directed for other AV studios, including Dogma and occasionally Moodyz In 2006, KWEST 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. KWEST 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 (labeled D1-310 ... [...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. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and borders fourteen countries by land, the most of any country in the world, tied with Russia. Covering an area of approximately , it is the world's third largest country by total land area. The country consists of 22 provinces, five autonomous regions, four municipalities, and two Special Administrative Regions (Hong Kong and Macau). The national capital is Beijing, and the most populous city and financial center is Shanghai. Modern Chinese trace their origins to a cradle of civilization in the fertile basin of the Yellow River in the North China Plain. The semi-legendary Xia dynasty in the 21st century BCE and the well-attested Shang and Zhou dynasties developed a bureaucratic political system to serve hereditary monarchies, or dynasti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Akiho Yoshizawa , often known simply as Acky (あっきー), is a Japanese 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 and made her ... [...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 original ... [...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. 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 releases about 16-17 videos per month including some 10 new original works. The major Japanese video distributor DMM, a division of the Hokuto Corporation, listed more than 2000 DVD titles for Wanz Factory in September 2011. Labels In addition to the Wanz Factory lab ... [...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 dis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]