was a

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ese variety TV show broadcast from October 1991 to March 1998. Airing early Sunday mornings at 1:15 a.m. JST on

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, the hour-long show helped launch the career of one of its late hosts,

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 ...

, who afterwards moved into a more mainstream career.

Description

''Gilgamesh'' was a long-running example of the late-night sexy programming popular on Japanese television. The show was in the format of a

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. Segments included "Yashoku Banzai", a cooking corner with Yuuki Hitomi wearing just an apron;

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with Jeff Furukawa; "Bathtub Cinema", in which a nude young woman in a bathtub reviewed a current film; and "No-Panty Pub Report", in which the television crew would visit a Tokyo bar featuring waitresses without undergarments.Hamamoto, Maki (2000). "The Boob Tube: A Report on Nippon Midnight Raunch". ''Asian Cult Cinema'', #29 (4th Quarter, 2000), pp. 11–12.

Cast

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* Yuki Hitomi *

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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 bo ...

* Anna Kazuki * Rina Kitahara * Akira Kiuchi * Sena Matsuda *

Kei Mizutani (born May 7, 1974) is a Japanese actress. She has appeared in multiple photo books, movies, and TV series in Japan and her DVD sets are popular in Japan, the United States, and Europe. Career Mizutani was born in Aomori Prefecture where she wa ...

Shoot Ogawa Shoot Ogawa (born 1975) is a magician from Tokyo, Japan He has been interested in magic from the age of 10. Ogawa has been featured on television in Japan and is a corporate entertainer. Some of his most renowned tricks include the ''Ninja Rings ...

(1997) * Kaori Ōhara *

Ijiri Okada , born is a Japanese comedian, impressionist, and television host. His hosting credits include ''Gilgamesh LIGHT'', a revival of the 90s show ''Gilgamesh Night'', and the Nogizaka46 variety show ''NogiBingo!'' Okada is represented by Horipro. He ...

* Tamao Sato * Masaya Yamazaki * Nami Yasumuro

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* 1990s Japanese television series 1991 Japanese television series debuts 1998 Japanese television series endings Japanese pornography Japanese variety television shows Softcore pornography TV Tokyo original programming {{Japan-tv-prog-stub