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VIP (studio)
, 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 F ... [...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 devastate ... [...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] |
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] |
Katsuyuki Hirano
is a Japanese director of adult videos (AV) and documentaries. He should be differentiated from the manga artist . Life and career Hirano was born in 1964 in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan and was an aspiring cartoonist until he began making amateur films from the time he was 18. Three of his early films were selected to play at the Japanese PIA independent film festival in 1985–1987. He appeared as an actor in the 1986 Cinderella story film ''Hai Kaburi (Princess Story)'' (はいかぶり姫物語) directed by Hisashi Saitō (斎藤久志). In January 1989 ''Raigyo'' (雷魚) was released, an 8 mm color film written, directed and photographed by Hirano. The film assured his reputation as an independent film maker and won a Jury Prize at the 1990 Image Forum Festival (イメージフォーラム・フェスティバル). Hirano started directing in the adult video (AV) industry in the early 1990s with several videos for V&R Planning. At the V&R studio he met AV actress Yumika ... [...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] |
Ai Iijima
was a Japanese media personality, writer, activist and actress who was an AV idol early in her career, starring in more than 100 films. She later became the hostess on the nighttime television program, ''Gilgamesh Night,'' and transitioned away from AV work. After ending her career in adult videos, Iijima released a musical single in July 1993 and soon became a regular on daytime TV talk shows. Iijima became involved in campaigns to educate the public about HIV/AIDS, a cause that few Japanese celebrities were willing to undertake. On December 24, 2008 at about 3:30 p.m. (JST), Iijima was found dead in her 21st floor Tokyo apartment. Pathology examination showed she had died of pneumonia shortly after retiring from the public eye. Life and career Born as in Tokyo, Japan, Iijima described a troubled early life in her autobiography. She was raped in her early teens and had an abortion. She ran away from home as a teenager, later stating, "I hated my parents, to the point w ... [...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] |
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] |
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] |
Wired (magazine)
''Wired'' (stylized as ''WIRED'') is a monthly American magazine, published in print and online editions, that focuses on how emerging technologies affect culture, the economy, and politics. Owned by Condé Nast, it is headquartered in San Francisco, California, and has been in publication since March/April 1993. Several spin-offs have been launched, including '' Wired UK'', ''Wired Italia'', ''Wired Japan'', and ''Wired Germany''. From its beginning, the strongest influence on the magazine's editorial outlook came from founding editor and publisher Louis Rossetto. With founding creative director John Plunkett, Rossetto in 1991 assembled a 12-page prototype, nearly all of whose ideas were realized in the magazine's first several issues. In its earliest colophons, ''Wired'' credited Canadian media theorist Marshall McLuhan as its "patron saint". ''Wired'' went on to chronicle the evolution of digital technology and its impact on society. ''Wired'' quickly became recognized ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nihon Ethics Of Video Association
The , usually abbreviated as ''Viderin'' (official) or ''Biderin'' (both: ビデ倫), was a Japanese video rating organization. It was a voluntary organization to ensure adherence to Japanese obscenity laws, which prohibit any display of genitals. This is accomplished by a mosaic pixelation that is applied to videos for sale in Japan, and the NEVA seal is placed on all videos produced by member studios, which included the larger and older adult video studios in Japan—including h.m.p., Kuki Inc., and Alice Japan, which belonged to NEVA. History NEVA was founded in 1972 by Toei Video, Nikkatsu, and Japan Vicotte as the , Its headquarters were in the Chūō ward of Tokyo. The organization began using its latest name in January 1977. NEVA was dissolved in November 2010, and a new organization, Ethics Organization of Video took its place. The new organization is currently known as the Japan contents Review Center. Controversy In June 2007, some restrictions (such as showing pu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
