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Kyōko Kazama
is a Japanese AV idol and ''pink film'' actress. She has appeared in award-winning ''pink films'', and was herself given a "Best Supporting Actress" award in two successive years for her work in this genre in 2006 and 2007. Life and career Kyōko Kazama was born in Tokyo on January 12, 1974. She first became known in the mid-1990s as an AV idol. In AV profiles, her birthday is reported as February 20, 1977, and the kanji used to spell her name is "". In the shift from focus on AV work to ''pink film'' theatrical releases she uses "". Both versions of her name are pronounced "Kazama Kyōko". Among the prominent AV studios at which Kazama has performed are Alice Japan, Dogma, and, more recently, the -specialist Madonna studio. Kazama was one of the early AV idols associated with the Attackers studio, and has continued to appear in videos for the studio throughout her career. In September 2005 she appeared in the Attacker's AV ''Slave Island'' which won the Attackers Award at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tokyo
Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, with an estimated 37.468 million residents ; the city proper has a population of 13.99 million people. Located at the head of Tokyo Bay, the prefecture forms part of the Kantō region on the central coast of Honshu, Japan's largest island. Tokyo serves as Japan's economic center and is the seat of both the Japanese government and the Emperor of Japan. Originally a fishing village named Edo, the city became politically prominent in 1603, when it became the seat of the Tokugawa shogunate. By the mid-18th century, Edo was one of the most populous cities in the world with a population of over one million people. Following the Meiji Restoration of 1868, the imperial capital in Kyoto was moved to Edo, which was renamed "Tokyo" (). Tokyo was devastated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tetsuya Takehora
is a Japanese film director and screenwriter. Life and career Tetsuya Takehora studied at the , founded by director Shōhei Imamura in 1975 as the Yokohama Vocational School of Broadcast and Film. He entered the film industry as an assistant director at Ōkura Pictures (OP Eiga), in which capacity he worked for five years. He made his directorial debut with (2004), and won the Best New Director award at the Pink Grand Prix the same year for . Takehora's films are generally in a light, erotic-comic vein, and have proven popular with ''pink film'' audiences and critics. He was given the Best Director title the following year for ''Lustful Hitchhiker: Sought Wife'' (2005), and a four-film career retrospective show at the third annual R18 Love Cinema Showcase held at Tokyo's Theatre Pole-Pole Higashi Nakano in 2006. Award-winning films "Ten Best" films, Pink Grand Prix * 2004 9th place: * 2005 4th place: * 2005 Honorable Mention: * 2006 1st place: * 2006 2nd place: * 2007 9th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sakurako Kaoru
is a Japanese gravure model, AV idol and ''pink film'' actress. First coming to prominence as an AV actress, Kaoru successfully made the transition to the theatrically released softcore ''pink film'' genre. She has appeared in award-winning ''pink films'', and was herself given a "Best Actress" award for her work in this genre in 2007. Life and career Sakurako Kaoru was born in Tokyo on November 22, 1982. AV career Sakurako Kaoru made her AV debut in the July 2002 Kuki release ''101 Litre Girl''. Kaoru's second three videos for Kuki were all under director Happy Yamada, whom fellow AV idol Milk Ichigo described as a, "really weird man... a really interesting person, very unique." In late 2002 and early 2003, Kaoru appeared in several prominent men's magazines from ''Weekly Playboy'' (October 2002) to ''Flash'' (January 2003). At the beginning of 2003, Kaoru made her first video for the VIP studio, ''Very Rare''. She also began an association with the Crystal Eizō company at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Internet Movie Database
IMDb (an abbreviation of Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information related to films, television series, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and personal biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan and critical reviews. IMDb began as a fan-operated movie database on the Usenet group "rec.arts.movies" in 1990, and moved to the Web in 1993. It is now owned and operated by IMDb.com, Inc., a subsidiary of Amazon. the database contained some million titles (including television episodes) and million person records. Additionally, the site had 83 million registered users. The site's message boards were disabled in February 2017. Features The title and talent ''pages'' of IMDb are accessible to all users, but only registered and logged-in users can submit new material and suggest edits to existing entries. Most of the site's data has been provided by these volunteers. Registered users with a prove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philadelphia International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival
Philadelphia QFest was founded in Philadelphia as the Philadelphia Gay and Lesbian Film Festival by TLA Entertainment Group in 1995. It was given its current name, QFest, in 2009. One of the festival's founders and current Artistic Director, Raymond Murray, describes QFest's mission as giving gay and lesbian audiences the opportunity to see films that accurately reflect their life experiences without the filter of the "straight" Hollywood system. The event is the third largest of its kind in the US, and the largest on the East Coast. The festival is held in Center City Philadelphia in various venues near and on the Avenue of the Arts. Film screenings take place at the Prince Music Theater, the Wilma Theater, and several other locations that differ from year to year. It takes place for two weeks annually in mid-July and shows as many as 200 films from more than 40 countries. There is a juried competition for best features and shorts (gay male and lesbian) as well as audience awards, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lily Festival
is a 2001 Japanese movie directed by Sachi Hamano, based on the novel ''Yurisai'' by Houko Momotani. The film focuses on the sexuality of older women and won the Jury Prize for "Best Feature - Lesbian" at the Philadelphia International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival. Cast and characters *Kazuko Yoshiyuki as Rie Miyano *Mickey Curtis as Terujiro Miyoshi *Utae Shoji as Umeka Mariko * Kazuko Shirakawa as Renako Yokota *Sanae Nakahara as Teruko Satoyama *Sachiko Hara as Atsuko Namiki See also * Tokyo International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival *List of LGBT-related films directed by women This is a list of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender-related films that were directed by women. LGBT-themed films directed by women – especially, but not exclusively, lesbian-themed movies – are an important and distinct subset of the gen ... References External links * * * ''Lily Festival''at Japanese Film Database * * 2001 films 2001 LGBT-related films Films based on Japanese novel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whore Hospital
Prostitution is the business or practice of engaging in sexual activity in exchange for payment. The definition of "sexual activity" varies, and is often defined as an activity requiring physical contact (e.g., sexual intercourse, non-penetrative sex, oral sex, etc.) with the customer. The requirement of physical contact also creates the risk of transferring diseases. Prostitution is sometimes described as sexual services, commercial sex or, colloquially, hooking. It is sometimes referred to euphemistically as "the world's oldest profession" in the English-speaking world. A person who works in this field is called a prostitute, or more inclusively, a sex worker. Prostitution occurs in a variety of forms, and its legal status varies from country to country (sometimes from region to region within a given country), ranging from being an enforced or unenforced crime, to unregulated, to a regulated profession. It is one branch of the sex industry, along with pornography, stri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kyōko Aizome
is a Japanese erotic actress, singer, writer, and AV and film director. She has been called "the first hard-core porn actress in Japan". Life and career Early life Kyōko Aizome was born in Noda Chiba Prefecture. She grew up in a troubled household, her father was a police officer who beat his wife, and her parents divorced about 1974, when Aizome was 16 years old. Soon after graduation from high school, Aizome was scouted in Tokyo's Shinjuku neighborhood by a photographer for nude magazines. She saw nude modeling as a stepping-stone into a career in entertainment. ''Daydream'' Pioneer ''pink film'' director Tetsuji Takechi noticed Aizome in one of her nude photo magazine appearances. ''Pinku eiga'', or "pink films", are the softcore genre of sex-film which dominated Japan's domestic cinema during the 1960s and 1970s. Tetsuji had made ''Daydream'' (1964), the first big-budget ''pink film''. He chose Aizome to star in his hardcore remake of this film, also called ''Daydream'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yumi Yoshiyuki
is a Japanese film director, actress, and screenwriter best known for her work in the ''pink film'' genre. Early life and education Yoshiyuki studied economics at Dokkyo University. Career During her studies at Dokkyo University, Yoshiyuki developed a love of film. She debuted as an actress in the ''pink film'' genre in 1993 in director Toshiki Satō's . By the time of her directorial debut three years later, she had appeared in over 100 ''pink'' productions. Among the prominent ''pink film'' directors she has acted for is Satoru Kobayashi, the director of the first ''pink film'', ''Flesh Market'' (1962). She appeared in Kobayashi's (1995), starring AV idol, Nao Saejima. The mainstream Yokohama Film Festival awarded Yoshiyuki with the Best Supporting Actress title for her work in director Akio Jissoji's Rampo Edogawa adaptation, . In 1996 Yoshiyuki directed her first ''pink film'', . At the Pink Grand Prix she was given a Best New Director award for her debut work, as wel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sachi Hamano
a.k.a. ''and'' (born March 19, 1948), is a Japanese film director. She is the most prolific and written-about female ''pink film'' director. Life and career Sachi Hamano was born as Sachiko Suzuki in Tokushima Prefecture on March 19, 1948. While in high school, Hamano decided she wanted to become a film director. She studied photography for a while in college in Tokyo, then quit to work in film. "In my 30 years of making porn films, I've always wanted to present them from a woman's perspective."-- Sachi Hamano Though the film industry was male-dominated and reluctant to hire a female director, Hamano was able to begin working as an assistant director at independent studios beginning in 1968. Early in her career, at the advice of film producers, Hamano dropped the feminine "ko" ending from her name, Sachiko. She has also used the name Chise Matoba for directing credits. She worked for a while at Kōji Wakamatsu's Wakamatsu Pro, then for other major ''pink film'' directors incl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Japan Times
''The Japan Times'' is Japan's largest and oldest English-language daily newspaper. It is published by , a subsidiary of News2u Holdings, Inc.. It is headquartered in the in Kioicho, Chiyoda, Tokyo. History ''The Japan Times'' was launched by Motosada Zumoto on 22 March 1897, with the goal of giving Japanese people an opportunity to read and discuss news and current events in English to help Japan to participate in the international community. The newspaper was independent of government control, but from 1931 onward, the paper's editors experienced mounting pressure from the Japanese government to submit to its policies. In 1933, the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs appointed Hitoshi Ashida, former ministry official, as chief editor. During World War II, the newspaper served as an outlet for Imperial Japanese The also known as the Japanese Empire or Imperial Japan, was a historical nation-state and great power that existed from the Meiji Restoration i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pink Grand Prix
The or is an annual Japanese film award ceremony which recognizes excellence in the pink film genre. Referred to by Miho Toda as the "Academy Awards of the Pink Film", the ceremony attracts a diverse audience of industry personnel, film scholars and the general public. Pink film scholar Jasper Sharp calls it the high point of the year for the pink film community. ''PG'', a magazine focusing on the genre, hosts the Pink Grand Prix in April of each year as a review of pink films released the previous year. The top ten films are selected by a readers' poll, and the top five films are screened during the evening of the ceremony held at the Kameari-za theater in Aoto, Tokyo until its closing in 1999, and at the Shinbungeiza theater thereafter. History ''PG'' magazine was founded by Yoshiyuki Hayashida in July 1994. The magazine was preceded by the limited-circulation ''New Zoom-up'', which Hayashida started in 1989, and which held the first Pink Grand Prix awards beginning that y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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