is a Japanese adult video (AV) studio and production company located in the

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ward of

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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

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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

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, listed nearly 700 DVD titles under the Maxing name. In addition to DVD products, by April 2008 the company also began producing videos on

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discs and in August 2010, Maxing came out with their first videos in 3D format for the new

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s, closely following the lead of

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which had released the Japanese adult industry's first 3D products in June 2010. At the 2010

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for adult material broadcast over the

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satellite network, the Maxing production starring Yuzuka Kinoshita won the Best Program Award from among the more than 10,000 programs aired that year. Maxing operates its own website, www.maxing.jp, which has a viewership 80% derived from Japan, although it is also popular in

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and

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Labels

In addition to the Maxing label, the studio has also released videos under several other labels: * Bodyva * Cool Sexy * Jukebox * MAXING 3D * Natural Beauty * Pretty Cute * Roppongi

Actresses

A number of prominent AV actresses have performed in Maxing videos: * Elly Akira * Hikari Hino * Kaho Kasumi * Minako Konno * Miho Maeshima *

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Nao Oikawa is a Japanese people, 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, whe ...

* Ai Sayama * Tsubomi *

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Series

Video series produced by Maxing include: * Fu-Zoku Channel (風俗ちゃんねる)

AV Open / AV Grand Prix

Maxing was one of the 19 companies which sent entries to the 2007

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competition. The nominated video was , labeled OPEN-0713 and starring Ai Tokitou. Maxing was also one of the 39 studios which entered the GrandPrix Stage of the 2008

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contest. Their entry was (AVGP-032) starring Ami Sakurai.

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External links

* {{Japanese Erotic Cinema Japanese pornographic film studios Japanese companies established in 2006 Mass media companies based in Tokyo Film production companies of Japan Mass media companies established in 2006