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Sola Aoi
is a Japanese former AV idol, nude model, and actress. Starring in more than 600 pornographic film, adult films between 2002 and 2011, Aoi is widely considered to be one of the most popular adult video idols of the 2000s. Her popularity as a porn actress alone has led to celebrity status as a media personality both in Japan and internationally. Life and career Early life and AV debut Sora Aoi was born on April 26, 1981, in Kanagawa. As a student, she worked at various part-time jobs in the food-service industry, such as pizza parlors, pubs and sushi bars with the intent of becoming a pre-school teacher. While in her third year in high school, Aoi was scouted in Shibuya, Tokyo, Shibuya by a talent agency for gravure idol, gravure modelling. She decided to enter the adult entertainment industry with the aim of eventually working on TV and in other parts of the entertainment industry, stating that "If there was only the AV industry, I couldn't do it." When asked how her stage nam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tokyo International Film Festival
The is a film festival established in 1985. The event was held biennially from 1985 to 1991 and annually thereafter. According to the FIAPF, it is one of Asia's competitive film festivals and the second largest film festival in Asia behind the Shanghai International Film Festival, as well as the only Japanese festival accredited by the FIAPF. The awards handed out during the festival have changed throughout its existence, but the Tokyo Grand Prix, handed to the best film, has stayed as the top award. Other awards that have been given regularly include the Special Jury Award and awards for best actor, best actress and best director. In recent years, the festival's main events have been held over one week in late October, at the Roppongi Hills development. Events include open-air screenings, voice-over screenings, and appearances by actors, as well as seminars and symposiums related to the film market. List of festivals and award winners Other awards Best Screenplay Award ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
J-dorama
, also called or J-drama, are television programs that are a staple of Japanese television and are broadcast daily. Format All major TV networks in Japan produce a variety of drama series including romance, comedy, detective stories, horror, jidaigeki, thriller, BL, and many others. Single episode, or "tanpatsu" dramas that are usually two hours in length are also broadcast. For special occasions, there may be a one or two-episode drama with a specific theme, such as one produced in 2015 for the 70-year anniversary of the end of World War II. Japanese drama series are broadcast in three-month seasons: winter (January–March), spring (April–June), summer (July–September), and autumn or fall (October–December). Some series may start in another month though it may still be counted as a series of a specific season. Most of the dramas air on weekday evenings between 9pm and 11pm. Daytime dramas are typically broadcast daily, and episodes of the same drama can be aired da ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TV Tokyo
JOTX-DTV (channel 7), branded as is a Japanese television station that serves as the flagship of the TX Network.Corporate Data . TV Tokyo. Retrieved on June 21, 2010. It is owned and operated by itself a of the TV Tokyo Holdings Corporation, in turn controlled by Nikkei, Inc. It is headquartered in the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akiho Yoshizawa
, often known simply as Acky (あっきー), is a Japanese actress and former adult video (AV) actress, who also appeared in pink film and mainstream (non-erotic) film, as well as television. With a career spanning over more than 15 years and over 1,000 adult film appearances, Yoshizawa was widely renowned as one of the most famous and recognizable faces in Japanese adult entertainment, with an appeal that managed to cross over into mainstream entertainment. She started her AV career in 2003 with the companies Alice Japan and Max-A, and in 2007 she transitioned to studios Maxing and S1 No. 1 Style appearing along with other famous AV actresses like Yuma Asami, Mihiro, Sola Aoi or Megu Fujiura. She was also a member of the idol group Ebisu Muscats between 2008 and 2013. Yoshizawa announced her retirement from AV in late 2018, and her final adult films were released in March 2019. Life and career AV debut—Alice Japan & Max-A Yoshizawa was born in Tokyo, Japan, on March 3, 1984, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival
The , also sometimes called YIFFF, is held in a resort-like environment in the small town of Yūbari on the northernmost Japanese island of Hokkaidō. From 1990 to 1999, the festival was known as the Yubari International Fantastic Adventure Film Festival. History In 1990, the last coal mine in the Hokkaidō mining town of Yūbari having closed, the city leaders were looking for a way to revitalize the local economy. This was the beginning of the Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival. The festival was divided into two main programs, a prestigious international competition for young directors, and an Off Theatre program for mostly Japanese amateur, independent and first-time directors. The first year in 1990 had as a special guest, actor Jon Voight and his daughter, a young starlet named Angelina Jolie. In 1993, Quentin Tarantino was at the festival and wrote part of the screenplay for ''Pulp Fiction'' in his hotel room. Some years later, he paid homage to the town in the n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keisuke Yoshida (director)
is a Japanese film director and screenwriter. His film '' Raw Summer'' won the Fantastic Off-Theatre Competition Grand Prize at the 2006 Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival. Filmography *''Raw Summer'' (2005) *'' The Contents of the Desk'' (2006) *'' Cafe Isobe'' (2008) *''Triangle A triangle is a polygon with three corners and three sides, one of the basic shapes in geometry. The corners, also called ''vertices'', are zero-dimensional points while the sides connecting them, also called ''edges'', are one-dimension ...'' (2010) *''The Workhorse & the Bigmouth'' (2013) *'' Mugiko-san to'' (2013) *'' Silver Spoon'' (2014) *'' Himeanole'' (2016) *''Thicker Than Water'' (2018) *''I Love Irene'' (2018) *''Intolerance'' (2021) *''Blue'' (2021) *''God Seeks in Return'' (2022) *''Missing'' (2024) References External links * 1975 births Living people Japanese film directors Japanese screenwriters {{Japan-film-director-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hideto Aki
is a Japanese adult video (AV) director who has directed more than 300 movies since 1998. Life and career Hideto Aki was born in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan in 1970. He tells how AV Idol Hitomi Kobayashi came to his neighborhood video rental shop when he was 17 and he shook hands with her and more than 10 years later he still remembered how small and cute her hand was. He said about the event (in his 1999 "Diary"): "At the time I didn't even imagine that I would do this kind of work. Now, I can't imagine doing anything else." Although he says he always enjoyed pink films, especially the "Four Devils" (or "Four Heavenly Kings of Pink"), he is doubtful about trying to use dramatic stories in AV. He prefers to work in the documentary style much used in Japanese porn, feeling that fiction and sex don't mix well ("If so, it is better owatch pink cinema"). He says he has to do it sometimes when the production side wants it or if they are using a famous actress but he describes dra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hokuto Corporation
, is a Japanese joint stock company involved in the distribution of adult videos (AV) and adult toys. The firm, founded in March 1990, is headquartered in Tokyo at the Ebisu Garden Place Tower. By late 2008, DMM was handling products from more than 150 different adult video studios, making it one of the largest AV distributors in Japan. The company interfaces with the public for sales and information as Outvision. Company information As of July 2007, Hokuto Corporation had 185 employees and total assets of 16,618,000,000 yen (about $166 million). Stockholders' equity was 6,073,000,000 yen (about $60 million) and company capital amounted to 45 million yen (about $450,000). Sales for the fiscal year ending February 2007 were 28,366,000,000 yen (about $283 million) with sales for the 2008 fiscal year extrapolating to about 30 billion yen (about $300 million). Hokuto Corporation had a period of rapid growth from the time of its foundation with sales going from 5.1 billion yen (abo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
S1 No
S1, S01, S.I, S-1, S.1, Š-1 or S 1 may refer to: Biology and chemistry * S1 nuclease, an enzyme that digests singled-stranded DNA and RNA * S1: Keep locked up, a safety phrase in chemistry * Primary somatosensory cortex, also known as S1 * Tegafur/gimeracil/oteracil, also known as S-1, a chemotherapy medication Entertainment * S1 (Indian TV channel), a Hindi-language channel * S1 (Swiss TV channel), a German-language channel * S1 (producer), a hip hop producer, member of the group Strange Fruit Project * S1 No. 1 Style, a Japanese adult video company * Gibson S-1, a guitar made by the Gibson Guitar Corporation * A member of the S1W (group) that later became part of the music group Public Enemy. Government * Bill S-1, a pro forma bill in Canadian Parliament * Form S-1, a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing * S-1 Executive Committee, a United States government entity during World War II * S1 (military), an administrative position within military units Technology * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Imdb
IMDb, historically known as the Internet Movie Database, is an online database of information related to films, television series, podcasts, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and 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. Since 1998, it has been owned and operated by IMDb.com, Inc., a subsidiary of Amazon. The site's message boards were disabled in February 2017. , IMDb was the 51st most visited website on the Internet, as ranked by Semrush. the database contained some million titles (including television episodes), million person records, and 83 million registered users. Features User profile pages show a user's registration date and, optionally, their personal ratings of titles. Since 2015, "badges" can be added showing a count of contributions. These badges rang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manga
are comics or graphic novels originating from Japan. Most manga conform to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century, and the form has a long history in earlier Japanese art. The term is used in Japan to refer to both comics and cartooning. Outside of Japan, the word is typically used to refer to comics originally published in Japan. In Japan, people of all ages and walks of life read manga. The medium includes works in a broad range of genres: action, adventure, business and commerce, comedy, detective, drama, historical, horror, mystery, romance, science fiction and fantasy, erotica ( and ), sports and games, and suspense, among others. Many manga are translated into other languages. Since the 1950s, manga has become an increasingly major part of the Japanese publishing industry. By 1995, the manga market in Japan was valued at (), with annual sales of 1.9billion manga books and manga magazines (also known as manga anthologies) in Japan (equivale ... [...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] |
