The Good, the Bad, the Ugly and the Tubby! (And: Film ID)

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"Why do jav movies try to hide the man's face so many times?" I actually appreciate when the man's face is turned away on the covers, Robbus; such practice accentuates where the attraction really lies. But I don't appreciate it when the men's faces are digitally blurred. I once posed this question ("JAV Questions.... Three!") and a knowledgeable party explained this was a way to protect the men's reputations in real life. (Insinuating that the pay received as actors was not enough for the men to let it all hang out.)

I thought, yeah, well then what about the women's reputations, which would be more important, given that sexual women are frowned upon in societies? Besides, there are many times I've noticed recognizable male actors behind the blurs. My theory was that the blurring of the faces is a disingenuous attempt to put one over on the viewer, that the filming was done on-the-sly, and the goings-on are "real." (Which would not explain why the women's faces are also not blurred.)
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Codegeek, that was an amazing find!

The claim of only seventy male actors in the JAV industry can be more seriously questioned, as there were ninety-six in the lot of that site, almost all (if not all) still active - and I didn't recognize many of them. (For example, where is the distinctive-looking "Concentration Camp Survivor"? And the "Wise Guy"?)

At least the site has made an effort to offer multiple views of the actor, when possible. Sometimes one photograph is not enough to allow for a recognition, as (obviously) not all photos provide for the best resemblance.

I love the way they list the blood types as a category for personal information; who would want to know that? And... Penis size! (Anyone with over six inches... well, not impossible, but, yeah, okay. After all, if Tenant sports six inches, no one can surpass Tenant.)

Old geezer Shigeo Tokuda started at 60 years of age, making him around 80 today. I feel a very, very disturbing chill up my spine.

The Evil S.O.B. has not been ignored, that's good.

I didn't look through everything carefully, but at quick glance, I see some of this thread's questions have been answered, and/or maybe begun to get answered.

The most exciting discovery regards a heavyweight from this thread:

The Bald Thug



His name turns out to be Yeah Takashima (イェーイ高島).

(EDIT: A limited filmography, and translated; note first name spelling of "Yay")


This next fellow was never discussed on this thread, but I've referred to him in other posts as:

Oddjob



His name is Meatball Yoshino (ミートボール吉野)

EDIT: A limited filmography, and its translation.


Another heavyweight from this thread is:

The Un-Juvenile Delinquent

The database has an actor with the tell-tale hairstyle, but the face looks somewhat different.



I don't think that's him; however, one never knows. The jury's still out, but the guy behind that photograph is Ôji Hoshino (星野王子)

Mr. Hoshino's page is sparse with information, and the most fitting part of it is that there is no idea about his age. If indeed the Un-Juvenile Delinquent, knowing his real age would be a bubble-burster.

The filmographies of this Warashi Asian Pornstars Database site are a joke. Yet, for their listing of male JAV performers, this is a very rare and beneficial resource. Many thanks to that JAV stalwart, Gentleman Codegeek.


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I am still hoping to confirm the identity of the Un-Juvenile Delinquent, and stumbled onto a clue while preparing an addition for "Stream DOWNLOADS." A movie being highlighted was SPRD-448 ("Rent For the Wife- No End to Demands"), and there was an uncommon listing of credits for the male actors within the title sequence, in English.

One of the actors featured in the movie was the irrepressible Un-J.D. (here appearing with the film's star, Maya Hara):



And the other was for this familiar face:



The names: Daisuke Yokoyama, Tomohiro Abe

So if I could find one, by the process of elimination, the other would have to be the Un-Juvenile Delinquent, since there are two male actors in this movie.

I threw both names into Google; nothing came up for the first name, but I noted Tomohiro Abe coming up in a movie called:

Blonde Teacher Creampie Fuck 2 [PTK-008], also starring Bree Olson, Kylee Reese, Amber Rayne and Christine Alexis

I couldn't find good enough screen shots, and whatever I did find didn't accent the male faces, of course... which is normally a good thing!

interestingly, PTK-008 was noted in the Internet Adult Film Database (IAFD)'s page for Tomohiro Abe, which does not make note of Japanese actors, or so I thought. Here is Tomohiro Abe's link:

http://www.iafd.com/person.rme/perfid=tomohiroabe/gender=m/tomohiro-abe.htm

From his listing for PTK-008, we can see another male JAV actor was featured in this movie, named "Masato Palpable."

Luckily, I had made note of Userporn links for PTK-008, as I never downloaded this film, since the actresses were doing their usual American porno schtick (I did discover, as a result of this exercise, that one of the actresses came across as "real," however; that was Christine Alexis. Here is her scene.)

I don't want to tell you how long I spent trying to extract some clear shots of the male actors right off the streams, but here's what I came up with... combined with the screen shots I did find:



The guy appearing with Kylee Reese; below, as well.



The same actor appears with Christine Alexis:



The other actor of the movie appears with Amber Rayne (The actor appearing with Bree Olson was not shown, far as I could make out)... is he "Masato Palpable"?



Yeah, I think so... Mr. Palpable had another credit from his IAFD page, identified as DVH-428. The screen shots from DVH-428"s DMM page reveal a fellow very much looking like the above. EDIT: Real name turned out to be Masato Sawachi (澤地真人), nicknamed "The Hammer."

Another movie (from his IAFD page) that Tomohiro Abe appears in is one apparently prepared for American distribution, called "Japanese Cougars Gone Wild," where he appears in the last scene with "Yuko"; a shot I found:



Another of his credits is "From the Crotch of the World in USA Nampa," starring Janet Mason; the DVD code was presented as GANG-16, and I could retrieve this shot of Tomohiro Abe from GANG-16's DMM page:



So... we can see this man is clearly not the Un-Juvenile Delinquent.

Can we assume the Un-J.D.'s name, then, is Daisuke Yokoyama?

(Which is different than the arrived-at clue from before, "Ôji Hoshino.")

Pretty weird how the hunt for things work out. I was on a quest to confirm the Un-Juvenile Delinquent's identity (where the jury is still out), and we wound up with IDs for two other JAV actors. (Of the two, I don't recall seeing Masato Palpable in a JAV, have you? He's tall and handsome, and he would have stuck out.)


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As a matter of record, having stumbled upon another TAKARA VISUAL movie that has credited male actors in the title sequence ("Fall of Mama," SPRD-482, with Risa Mizusaki), the two listed actors are:

Masashi Shijyou
Nobita Mutou

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They both play the sons of the mama, and it's hard to tell which is which. In order to help determine which is which... maybe...

Nobita Mutou was listed in an adult film directory, and his two movies (both for the U.S. market) are:

Don\'t Tell Your Daddy: Step Mother
Sky Angel 25: Juri Serizawa (screen shots)

EDIT: A limited filmography, and its translation, for the second actor simply called "Nobita" here.


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Have been meaning to highlight a JAV actor you may have come across in your travels, as well. He is an arrogant rascal that we shall dub...

The Pompous Pompadour

He's got that crazy hairdo that girls went wild over in the 1950s, as well as sideburns that come down to a point, a style that will be all the rage in a couple of centuries, as we know from "Star Trek."

Here is the Pompous Pompadour in My Pet is Mother in Law 3, starring Mirei Kayama



And again in a shot from the same movie, coded [NADE-806]




The Pompous Pompadour is up to no good as usual, in Mothers Get Fucked To Let Sons Get Into Better School [GIFD-71], with Yu Mizuno and Ren Takanashi




He also appears in one of my favorite movies, starring the fantastic Reiko Sawamura (Honami Takasaka): Female Boss is Office Anal Lady [KNCS-031]





His partner-in-crime offers a great visual contrast; thanks to Page 4 of this thread, we can identify that actor as Takashi Yoshimura.






The question that will hopefully be solved one day is: Who is the Pompous Pompadour?


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Got him, nearly two years later; Johnny Okamoto (ジョニー岡本), and here is his page. (And a translation.)


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I've been spending some time today fine-tuning this thread, because the actor names are all over the place. While I'm laboring, I wanted to give a limited round-up of loose ends that have been on my mind.

I don't have the time now to dig up the best shots of some of these actors, and instead will resort to recycling shots already around... sorry 'bout that.

Looking around in Nick Wells' "Other Performers" thread, I don't even recognize many of the faces that were put up. I'll be concentrating on the ones that have made an impression on me.


From that thread is this very familiar face:



Member Zen10101 pegged him as the "Pacino of JAV"; I suppose that is because the actor is tough, and emits a simmering intensity. Below, he plays the villain tormenting Ito Azusa in r*** Heroine Insult [GXXD-99]:



This Tough Guy calls for an identification.

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EDIT:

Electromog nailed the tough guy; he is Kurihara Ryo. (栗原良) Please see my next post below for more on Tough Old Feller.


The next one has been identified by Paparoach408, and I like the actor very much. His photograph has taken a powder from this thread, so let's put a pic to the name... to see whom we are talking about:

Ozawa Tooru (小 沢 とおる)

He is the one dubbed as Rugged Man, and I appreciate his aura of integrity. (Papa had come up with Rugged Man's Twitter account, where the following photo was taken from.)



From Forgive Me, Dear [KNCS-064], with Natsume Inagawa:



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A limited filmography. (Translated)

From the "Other Performers" thread, here is the Neanderthal:



He has been identified as Masatoshi Kuroda, 黒田将稔. Looking handsomer in his page from the Warashi directory that Codegeek informed us of. He has several other aliases, and has done gay porn too, I see.
EDIT: A limited filmography, and its translation. Google's version of Masatoshi's first name is "Masaru Minoru"


Sitting at left, from My Friend and His Wife Passed Out Drunk [MOMJ-210]:




Man in the middle is Monkeyface. Let's study his simian similarity:



Above, as he appeared in My Friend and His Wife Passed Out Drunk [MOMJ-092]; below, from another in the same series, [MOMJ-111], with An Mashiro:



Monkeyface calls for an identification.

EDIT: His name turned out to be Miyazaki (宮崎).

Just noticed from the directory, this guy ... who has been all over:



Masakazu Oshino, or Masakazu Shino (忍野雅)

That's not the best photo of him, but it will have to do for now.

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What's below still isn't good enough to get you to instantly recognize him, but until better shots come along... here is his profile from MDYD-437 (Stepmother Slave):



Below, he is beside the Neanderthal. (In MDYD-437, his fellow cretins in the cast also include the Concentration Camp Survivor, as well as The Bad.) You can see Masakazu's frontal face is strangely square-shaped, and he also comes across as bland onscreen. Therefore, hereafter and forever, the man shall be known as "The Square"!



EDITING AGAIN:

While I may have done an awful job of providing adequate shots of "The Square," I can't resist adding a pretty good shot of who may well be the "The Female Square"; from HTDR-004, Emi Fujiwara.



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Finally, let's pay a nod to the "King" of JAV, the guy who is everywhere; thus, his nickname of "The Golden Archer," as dubbed by Member Jack1956. (He is everywhere, like McDonald's. Plus, he's in his golden years, or close to.)

Some may call him a "King," but he's more of a joker in my book. I guess I'm developing a greater appreciation for him, though. (He just puts me off when he puts on that... smile of his.)

Hardly the best photo for him, but I'm recycling here, mainly from my own posts. I have this shot of him from the "Oscar-Worthy "Real Movie" JAVs!" thread:



A shot from his younger years, as he appeared in the movie being discussed:



The Golden Archer calls for an identification.




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Guess we can call him...

Tough Old Feller

Hard to say with certainty whether the same actor from the superheroine movie you pointed out, Gaia093... for one, Tough Old Feller's trademark is his bountiful graying hair combed back, and the man in the photo has a head covering. One would need to download the flick to know for sure. (Thoughtful of you to provide the link.)

Here are a couple of extra views of him, from My Husband Disappeared- From That Day... [RBD-527], starring Nana Aida, where he plays a brutal gangster:



Remember the actor who played the film producer who wound up with the famous horse's head in his bed, in THE GODFATHER... not a dead ringer, but Tough Old Feller reminds me of him.




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For the record, Tough Old Feller is not just tough in name only; in Hell's Slave 4 Scorpion Saga [CMC-082] (starring Maki Mizusawa and a particularly vulnerable Yu Kawakami), the tough guy takes on three Bruce Lee wannabes at once, making mincemeat out of them.



He is an action hero, in this one!




There is another actor I've been meaning to bring up, who has made an impression. I was waiting to run into better shots of him first, but while I'm here, the far-from-optimal ones I have on hand will have to do:


Roman Polanski Twerp


From SHKD-432:





From RCT-462:





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He is known as Tomita; please see this post for a better look at the name.

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Opening up "I'm Just Going to That Convenience Store For a Bit?" [SPRD-481], starring Sayaka Fujisaki, turned out to be another TAKARA VISUAL motion picture that featured male actor names, in English, in the beginning credits:



Shijou-kun

Yokoyama-kun

Aside from a male performer playing the bit part of the negligent husband, the two main actors in the movie are these guys:








As you can see, one of them is the Un-Juvenile Delinquent. The "Yokoyama-kun" name must belong to him, based on our previous finding from a few posts up, where the name of "Daisuke Yokoyama" was provided in the credit sequence of another TAKARA VISUAL movie.

So we are getting a bit closer in pinning him down, for good.

While here, I wanted to make reference to this rotund cat:



I have no idea who he is, never saw him before, but his fascinating face appeared in screen shots for an hour-or-so long oddity called Teacher vs School Girl [ATHB-33], with Nami Shinohar and Aya Sakuraba.






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Having read a very interesting article that our friend Paparoach408 pointed to on this thread, I noticed the male actor was referred to by name:

Mumin (ムーちゃん)

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Even if you've seen only four JAVs, the odds are you would recognize him. I see he has been listed in the Warashi directory as well, which I have obviously not scrutinized nearly enough. (He is almost six feet. How do you like that.)

Article excerpt: "One prominent actor — going by the moniker of Mumin, and with 2,000 titles to his name featuring upward of 1,500 girls — backs claims that 14 full-length porno movies are churned out daily in Japan. Mumin (the name is derived from his birthday, June 3) single-handedly adds an average of six titles a week to the national tally."


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Grotesque Guy



As he appears on the cover of SMA-553; will star Sana still be smiling when she goes grotesque?

Grotesque Guy is, without question, one of the most amazing JAV actors in the business. He carved his niche in the world of Japanese smut when producers went about trying to cast actors for the "Grotesque Men" genre, the films of which he has appeared in almost every one. They struck gold with good old Grotesque Guy.


As he appears on the cover of KAZ-015


From the cover of MIDD-653, making the life of Kate Kurusu absolutely miserable

One of my favorite movies, Rookie Employee Bullying [SVDVD-195], features Grotesque Guy in a great role; three evil office ladies show no mercy to the newcomer worker, played by Love Saotome, tormenting her in a no-holds-barred fashion. When they finally force their innocent victim to engage in heterosexual sex, they select the sorriest specimen of sausage, the janitor.


Maybe that mosaic effect ain't so bad, after all

For more on Grotesque Guy and his movies, here is a post that is semi-dedicated to him.


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His name is Yukio Dynamite (ダイナマイト幸男)... his page.



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Making a record. Ran into the rare JAV crediting the male actors in the cast, JAV being "Miss Campus Will Be Deceived & Trained To Become Slave Meat" [APAR-048], starring Natsume Inagawa.

One of the male actors was the wondrous Tenant.



His name was listed as Jit Hanaoka, the first name spelled differently than the usual "Jitta."

There were two more actors named:

Gaichi Okouno
Jinsei Hayasaka

I did not recognize either of them, so ... I don't really care about 'em. But, as I said... making a record.

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Who's who? You got me. Running a search for these names netted one result, an article about the impossibly old actor, Shigeo Tokuda. (Described as a "prolific artiste.") A Gaichi Kono (note different spelling) is quoted, and he is described as a "film producer," and also as having "acted in about 1,300 adult films." Since Gaichi has been around the block, my money is on the older and less hairy man as being Gaichi.

EDIT: Gaichi Kono's limited filmography, and its translation.

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EDIT: Here it is, over two years later, and I'm working on the index of male actors... I'm looking at that filmography, and it's for a different man. It is actually for the actor we have covered here, calling him "Yoshikazu Kōno." (Or "Don Mahler," as Jack1956 nicknamed him.) When I put the name from the filmography page into Google Translator, I got "Gaichi Kono." Perhaps the one from the article was him. The actor here is somebody else, and all we know about him is his screen credit of "Gaichi Okouno."

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So who is this guy? His warped onscreen credit in English is too close to the name of "Don Mahler."

I believe this actor from High-Handed Female Teacher [HBAD-111], with Anri Suzuki, is him?



I don't know, maybe that's someone else. But if it is him, the movie featured ending screen credits, so let me post them... in the hopes that one day we will have pinned "Gaichi Okouno" down. In order:

1. ... 2.

3. ... 4.

5. ... 6.

7. ... 8.


The movie has a large male cast, with young and older actors... so can't be sure whether our guy has been included in the names above. He had a speaking role, albeit brief, so he's probably in the bunch. Scraggly was in the cast: (沢木和也), and I can see he was credited first. (So discount Credit No. 1.) Mushman ( 日比野達郎 ) was also in the cast; he is Credit No. 7. So our guy is probably either of No. 2,3,4,5,6 or 8.


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(The other fellow has a touch of a not-all-that-handsome Richard Chamberlain.)




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As a note, all three actors also appeared together, and were similarly credited onscreen, in Brute's Party Revenge On Elite Office Lady (APAR-042), starring Kana Nagasawa; both movies were part of Studio AURORA PROJECT ANNEX'S "Feast of the Beast" series. It is probably safe to assume the other movies in this series (of which there are about two dozen) also credit the male actors.


I also wished to make a note about an actor whom I've seen plenty of times. I noticed he was listed on the Warachi directory (here is his page, with more photographs), and thought we ought to make a note:


Yuma Okumura


As he appears in "A Taken Stepmother's Anal Sex - Widow Who Sacrificed Her Asshole For the Sake of Her Son" [JUC-624], starring the great Honami Takasaka (Reiko Sawamura):








He has a Twitter account, in case you feel like catching the 3:10 to Yuma.

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A limited filmography. His name on the linked page translates as Tomoshin Okumura.
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His Avactor page. His Warashi page provides other aliases, primarily Tomomasa Okumura.


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Looks like I was in such a rush to put this up, I neglected to give Yuma a nickname. Let's see... what shall we call him, what shall we call him...

His overriding characteristic is all of that head hair. Why not call him...

The Japanese Hedgehog

Here's a hedgehog:



Now "hedgehog" is a nickname already given to Ron Jeremy, American porn star.


Ron Jeremy, in his heyday

This is why the addition of "Japanese" becomes necessary, so as not to cause confusion with this more famous "hedgehog." This is why Yuma Okumura is now known as... The Japanese Hedgehog.

(A speculation on why Ron Jeremy has been given this nickname.)

Since Yuma Okumura is the rare JAV actor who may actually be classified as "handsome," and Ron Jeremy is classified as anything but (especially as he got older... although he doesn't look too bad in that shot above), giving the hedgehog moniker may seem unfair. But we're only talking about hair.

She asks me why
I'm just a hairy guy
I'm hairy noon and night
Hair that's a fright
I'm hairy high and low
Don't ask me why
Don't know...

Hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair, hair
Flow it, show it
Long as God can grow it
My hair


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EDIT:
Many thanks to Codegeek for pointing out in the next post that one picture was a no-show. I knew I should not have linked directly to the original site, and should'a checked with another browser to see if the photo came through.

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He's got a face even his mother cannot love!


Froggy



What a great character Froggy is! I hope I'm not mistaken, but I believe he's the one I kept seeing in Nampa movies, where he would be the least likely candidate to seduce women off the street... but I don't have the time now to dig up pictorial reference from those films I believe I know him from. I ran into him in a rare acting role from Violated Workplace Idol [RBD-513] (where he plays a sleazy boss, and does a great job at it), and am slapping together a spur-of-the-moment post while he is fresh on my mind.







With his big eyes spaced widely apart, Froggy reminds me a little of the great Peter Lorre.




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And here is Froggy in one of said nampa movies, Hunting Housewife Creampie 6 - Tokyo Dept Store Edition [HZM-058]; astounding, is it not, how the ladies can fall for such a charmer.




EDIT:
Froggy's name translated as Asami Sota (浅見草太), and here is the source. Note there is a JAV actress also with the same name.


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