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Atlas21
, formerly known as VIP, is a Japanese adult video company with headquarters in Tokyo, Japan. Company information VIP The AV company was founded in June 1981 and issued its first video, titled , in December of that same year making it one of the first adult video companies to be established in Japan. The studio continued production in 1982 with works that included S&M and scatological themes. In 1983, the company changed its name from VIP Enterprise to . By 1985, the studio was using actresses with some background in entertainment, such as Anri Inoue (井上あんり) who made her AV debut with VIP in August 1985 with the video . The major event in the company's history in the 1980s was the debut of Hitomi Kobayashi in 1986 in her video ''Forbidden Relationship''. With her style and looks, Kobayashi was a major factor in bringing in the concept of the AV Idol to the fledgling Japanese adult video industry, and, as the "AV Queen", she brought outstanding sales to VIP. In Febru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Masato Ishioka
is a Japanese director, screenwriter and business executive who had an early career as an adult video (AV) director. Life and career Masato Ishioka was born in 1960 in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. He attended Meiji University, graduating in 1983 with a major in Politics and Economics. In 1984 he began working as an apprentice to Tadashi Yoyogi at the AV studio Athena Eizou. He stayed at the studio for six years as an assistant director and video production manager. In August 1986 he was assistant director for Hikaru Kitoh (鬼闘光), a co-founder of Athena Eizou, in the Nikkatsu film . By the mid-1990s, Ishioka was working as a director in the softcore V-cinema field, including directing three entries in the series for the company. At the same time, he was also involved as a director in the hardcore AV business, working for Athena Eizou and the Atlas21 studio including several videos in the "Violent Lips" series. In 1996, Ishioka founded his own video production company, Gold V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rui Sakuragi
, is a former Japanese AV Idol, gravure idol and erotic dancer who has been described as a "real AV Queen", the "top Japanese AV idol of the mid-1990s" and the "biggest star" in AV in 1992. She has also appeared widely in mainstream films and videos and on TV. Life and career Rui Sakuragi was born on March 8, 1970. After having previously been a "gravure" (non-sex) model, she made her adult video (AV) debut for the VIP label in April 1989 under the name Masako Ichinose but took the name Rui Sakuragi the following year. She sometimes worked for other studios but VIP (and its successor Atlas21) was her main label for the next two years. Her work for them included a seven-man orgy in ''Golden Pavilion Temple 2'' and cosplay in ''The Uniform Connection Special''. Sakuragi announced that her April 1992 release for VIP, ''The Last of Rui Sakuragi'' would be her final work and left with a tearful farewell. According to a 1992 article, whereas an attractive leading lady in AV could comman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kei Morikawa
is a Japanese mainstream film and adult video (AV) director. Over a career of more than 20 years in adult entertainment, he directed in excess of 200 adult videos. Life and career Adult video (AV) director Morikawa started directing adult videos at least as early as 1989 with starring Asako Sakura for the Alice Japan studio. In addition to Alice Japan, throughout the decade of the 1990s, Morikawa also directed AVs for several other "Viderin" companies including VIP, Atlas21, h.m.p., Kuki, Media Station and Max-A. During this time, he worked with early AV Idols Rui Sakuragi, Aika Miura, Yuri Komuro and Bunko Kanazawa. Outside the AV industry, Morikawa was credited as planner for Rokurō Mochizuki's 1991 debut mainstream film ''Skinless Night''. Also in the 1990s, Morikawa wrote and directed three softcore erotic V-cinema works, the comedy for Daiei in September 1993, the drama in September 1998 and in February 1999 (co-written with Masato Ishioka). Morikawa continued work ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kunihiro Hasegawa
is a Japanese adult video (AV) director. He has directed more than 200 videos during his long career. Life and career Hasegawa began directing adult videos at least as early as June 1987 with , starring actress Keiko Nakazawa, for V&R Planning, a studio which had been founded just the year before by Kaoru Adachi. In 1989, Hasegawa was still making videos for V&R Planning but was also working for another early AV studio VIP. By March 1991, Hasegawa was directing for Alice Japan with the video . Hasegawa would spend much of his AV career with Alice Japan, directing more than 100 videos for the studio. When the new AV studio Max-A started up in May 1992, Hasegawa directed the first video on their Samansa label, , starring AV Idol Hitomi Shiraishi. Throughout the 1990s, Hasegawa continued to direct for Alice Japan, VIP and Max-A as well as Shy Plan, Media Station, and VIP's successor Atlas21. Hasegawa had begun directing softcore V-Cinema works as early as September 1996 with f ... [...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 the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuri Komuro
(born July 28, 1976 in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese actress, author and former AV idol. She was one of the top actresses in the AV field during the late 1990s and in her dominant period from 1996 to 1999 was called "The AV Queen". Life and career Early life and AV career Yuri Komuro, who was born in Japan's Kanagawa Prefecture on July 28, 1976, commented in a news article, "I've always had a strong sexual awareness, even as a kid." While still in kindergarten she asked a neighborhood boy to play with her breasts. Komuro recalls once, still at an early age, inviting a university student to give her a blow job before she knew what the term meant. She comments that the resultant experience with cunnilingus would today be considered a sex crime. Komuro began studying for a career as a travel agent before she began work in the adult entertainment field. Her decision to work in the AV industry was based on a desire to do something more unusual. "I thought if I did thi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nao Saejima
(March 23, 1968 – September 29, 2012) was a Japanese AV idol and model of the 1980s and 1990s who also starred in photobooks, V-Cinema, and feature films, including Nikkatsu's ''Roman Porno'' series. She died in September 2012 of cancer at the age of 44. Life and career AV career Saejima was born in Tokyo on March 23, 1968. She began appearing as a gravure idol in 1985 and appeared on the nighttime TV variety show, ''11 P.M.'' in 1987. She made her AV debut with VIP in February of the same year with ''No.1 F-Cup, Nao Saejima - Saejima's Awakening'' (冴島奈緒／FカップNo.1 奈緒の目覚め - ''Saejima Nao/F Kappu No. 1 Saejima no Mezame''). With her slim figure and large breasts she quickly became a popular AV performer, appearing in at least 40 adult videos within two years of her debut including a 1987 entry in the Alice Japan "FlashBack" series directed by Rokurō Mochizuki. Along with fellow AV actresses Yui Saito and Midori Hayama, Saejima formed part of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nao Oikawa
is a Japanese actress, TV personality and was also a former AV idol who was very popular in the early 2000s. Life and career Nao Oikawa was born in Hiroshima. Her family moved to Tokyo when she was a little girl. At age 18, when she graduated from high school and began design school, she met a scout who proposed she become an AV idol. "That time, my hair was bleached and curly. My agency told me to get my hair back to straight black. One day in the office, one staff picked Oikawa as family name from a book, another staff picked Nao from another book. This is where my stage name came from."''Bukkake Ittassyo'' 2003-12''Shizentai Nimo Hodo Ga Aru'' 2009-08 AV career ; Debut Oikawa's debut was not easy. AV producers did not think that she had special talent in their genre. She used her time for studying popular porn stars' acting (especially, she learned many things from Kurumi Morishita). Finally, Oikawa made her debut adult video at age nineteen for the Media Station Cosmos P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asami Jō
, also spelled Asami Joh, is a Japanese actress and former AV Idol from Tokyo. Fans of tokusatsu TV shows also know her as the villain Shibolena in the Super Sentai series Denji Sentai Megaranger. Life and career Adult video actress Jō was born in Tokyo on September 15, 1975, and was a TV commercial model before starting a career in the adult entertainment industry. She was appearing on the late-night TV show Gilgamesh Night when she made her debut in adult videos (AV) at age twenty for the Alice Japan studio with ''A Bare Skin Jennu'' in October 1995. While many Japanese AVs involve some form of documentary style, Asami Jō's videos are mainly in the fictional style of the ''pink film'' and early AV. Her February 1996 release for Alice Japan, ''Love Potion'', told the story of a woman who supports her boyfriend financially while he is studying to become a lawyer. She employs sex as a means to make cosmetic sales. ''Thrilling Club: A Scandalous Night With You'' (April 1996), h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Media Station (company)
, founded as , was a Japanese adult video (AV) production company. In early 2011, they were integrated with the AV company KM Produce. Company information The company was founded under the name Cosmos Plan on October 13, 1981 making it, along with h.m.p (then known as Samm) and Tadashi Yoyogi's Athena Eizou, one of Japan's pioneering AV companies. The studio's first video, , starring Emi Nakamura, was released in December 1981. The video, directed by pink film director Genji Nakamura, who later made an early gay pink film ''Beautiful Mystery'', was one of earliest of the modern style adult videos. Soon afterward the studio also released one of the first S&M adult videos, . In 1982, starring Michiko Miura broke new ground in AV with its documentary style, including an interview with the shy actress, a format still being used for debut videos of featured actresses. The studio's success was assured with a series of popular videos in the following years. Among the early stars of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max-A
is a Japanese adult video (AV) studio which is especially known for videos made under its Samansa ("Samantha") and Calen ("Karen") labels which produced a number of innovative and quality AVs in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Company information The Max-A studio released its first video May 23, 1992 on the Calen label (with the code XC-1001), ''Calen Falls in Love'' (恋するカレン), featuring Saori Kawana and directed by Hajime Kitano. A week later, the first Samansa label video, ''Witch-Wife'' (白石ひとみの奥様は魔女), directed by Kunihiro Hasegawa and starring AV Idol Hitomi Shiraishi, came out with the production code XS-2001 on May 30, 1992. Max-A has had a long association dating back to at least 1997 with the Kuki group of companies, at one time the largest family of AV companies in Japan, comprising Kuki, Alice Japan, Atlas21, Media Station (Cosmos Plan), Big Morkal and Sexia. The companies in this group all belonged to the voluntary ethics organization ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Japan
was established on April 5, 1986, as the adult video (AV) label for Japan Home Video (JHV). Company information The early AVs produced by JHV went under the Penguin (ぺんぎん) label, the first title being the 30-minute-long softcore ''Asobinasareya, Tadakurue'' (遊びなされや、ただ狂へ) starring Hidemi Nakajima (中島秀美) released May 21, 1984, with production code KA-1001. The same production code series was used for releases under the Alice Japan label which began with ''Sexy Violence'' (セクシーバイオレンス), KA-1050, starring Mariko Kajikawa. In the years following, the company continued using the "KA" series for their products released on VHS tape. Iconic AV Idol Hitomi Kobayashi was one of the company's first stars appearing in Alice Japan videos as early as 1986. Among other early AV actresses who made their debut with Alice Japan were Riria Yoshikawa in 1990 and Asami Jō in 1995. Early directors for the company include Rokurō Mochizuki, who s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |