I was once reading about the history of the censorship of Japanese pornography and there was an interesting bit of trivia. Back in the 80s, porn was often censored simply by zooming in on the picture, so that no genitalia is pictured on the screen. Well, one of the more popular Japanese porn actresses had a bootleg video of one of her movies leaked, and it was uncensored - that is, zoomed out. The bootleg revealed that she wasn't actually having sex at all. Instead, there were men tickling her feet, and her "sex face" was actually the result of her straining to keep from laughing. I think her career as a porn star was ruined after the incident.
Does anyone remember the exact details, like the star's name, the title of the movie, or the year this happened (or if it actually happened at all)?
EDIT: I was searching high and low for this information, but I just changed my search approach and answered my own question: Hitomi Kobayashi. You can read about it on Wikipedia here, though the source for this information is a dead link and it's been excluded from the Wayback Machine. I didn't originally read this on Wikipedia, though. I can find absolutely no Japanese references to the info, but I'm not a Japanese speaker, so I might not be searching using the correct terms.
Does anyone remember the exact details, like the star's name, the title of the movie, or the year this happened (or if it actually happened at all)?
EDIT: I was searching high and low for this information, but I just changed my search approach and answered my own question: Hitomi Kobayashi. You can read about it on Wikipedia here, though the source for this information is a dead link and it's been excluded from the Wayback Machine. I didn't originally read this on Wikipedia, though. I can find absolutely no Japanese references to the info, but I'm not a Japanese speaker, so I might not be searching using the correct terms.
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