The Unsung Actresses of JAV: "Kikaku Joyu"

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The article below is not much of an article, but its subject may be of great value to most Akiba-Online members, particularly those who have turned to the "Identification Help" section. We've all been there; watching yet another Japanese porno, and then suddenly a non-starring performer jumps out at us. She might be featured in one of the vignettes in an episodic JAV where the ladies are uncredited, or she might even be one in a crowd of women from a single scene. Then you know what happens. Mesmerized, we are desperate to learn what else she might have appeared in. Always optimistic, we would prefer to believe if a woman has chosen to go porno, there must certainly be more XXX fare that she has graced.

The following article sheds extremely important light on this predicament many of us have found ourselves in.

Since there is even a name for these performers, I imagined they may have already been discussed in Akiba-Online - but upon a search for "Kikaku Joyu" (in quotation marks), not one hit came up. (Although there were many hits for plain old "kikaku," mainly from movie titles.) So I am betting many of you happened to be as ignorant as I, regarding this topic.

http://www.tokyokinky.com/kikaku-joyu-japanese-porn-jav/

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Kikaku Joyu: Japanese Porn’s Unsung Heroines

Written by: Tadashi Anahori on November 1, 2012


We all know and love the likes of Maria Ozawa.

But something like 95% of Japanese porn is populated not by stars but by so-called kikaku joyu, or “project actresses” — these are the unsung heroines of an industry that products 20,000 titles a year.

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JAV bukkake actress

In the same way that American porn has anonymous fluffers doing much of the dog’s work, the kikaku joyu provide the meat for all the incredible JAV porn films that involve sometimes dozens or even hundreds of actresses. They will play the “regular girl” roles — OL, nurse, student etc.

They are typically scouted on the streets or recruited from the ranks of hostesses, but get no PR for their work and their names may not even be listed.

Their salaries are low and they may appear in only one title.

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JAV japan porn Kikaku Joyu 企画女優

In 2010 there was even a mainstream film made about them, The Girls With No Name.

You all-too-little-known kikaku joyu, we salute you!


Above cover illustration is CRPD 018, and here is a little blurb about the film:

"The plot is 100 girls working on guys in various teases. Girls 1, 2 and 100 are the main characters in this flick with 1 and 2 instigating the action and 100 finishing it off. The girls are average to good looking and most of them have great tits. All are wearing matching black tube tops (bands?) and pull them down during their turn. The last scene is the best with all the girls completely naked and bending over to pull their ass cheeks apart for a full asshole and pussy view. If you love seeing tons of girls you can’t go wrong with this!!!"

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The same publication has presented another brief article on the topic:

http://www.tokyokinky.com/movie-reveals-porns-secret-supporting-stars/comment-page-1/


Movie Reveals Porn’s Secret Supporting Stars

Written by: Tadashi Anahori on September 8, 2010


A new film Namae No Nai Onnatachi (名前のない女たち, literally “The Girls With No Names”, though the English title is Love & Loathing & Lulu & Ayano) is about young JAV porn stars in Tokyo, a subject of course close to my heart!

It’s based on a on-fiction bestseller, a four-volume compilation of interviews on life and sex with kikaku porn actresses.

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A kikaku is a supporting actress hired for the day, whose face and/or name doesn’t appear on film, as opposed to tantai, the starring models. The ratio of tantai to kikaku girls is something like 5% to 95%!

The director is Hisayasu Sato (佐藤寿保), well known for his eroticism. Given the subject matter, we can likely expect that rare thing from a Japanese film — nudity!

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Not much meat to these Tokyokinky.com articles, is there?

In case you would like to find out more about the mainstream movie that has been referenced, called "The Girls With No Name":


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1693776/combined


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