Nude (2010)

Nude: Directed by Yûichi Onuma. With Naoko Watanabe, Ken Mitsuishi, Aimi Satsukawa, Tsuyoshi Gotô. Young and attractive, northern Japanese girl from Niigata Prefecture makes the move south to the bright lights of the Japanese capital of Tokyo upon graduating from high school. Hiromi aspires to become an actress. Her physique helps her be scouted and leave her temporary job of working at security. She becomes a pornographic actress using the Mihiro alias.

“This is a semi expose style movie of the Japanese AV (Adult Video – their porn) industry. Itu0026#39;s not a documentary, but takes on the form of actressu0026#39; vantage into the industry she works in.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eHiromi, a country girl has dreams of becoming a celebrity in Tokyo, and leaves her home soon after her graduation from high school. She has a dream to be recruited to be an actress in the streets of Tokyo. She finds work at an airport security, but one day her dream comes true, and she gets recruited by an owner of an unknown production company. He recruits her as a u0026quot;modelu0026quot; but itu0026#39;s actually to be a u0026quot;nudeu0026quot; model. Itu0026#39;s not exactly what Hiromi was looking for, but she canu0026#39;t turn away from the opportunity. She gets a stage name of Mihiro and starts to appear as nude model followed by an appearance in AV movies.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eI believe that this is a movie based on semi-autobiographical novel written by none other than Mihiro herself. Iu0026#39;ve heard of Mihiro, but am not familiar with her works. From what I understand she was a very prolific workaholic in her field, and became one of the most successful AV actor, and nude model of her time. Through her work sheu0026#39;s succeeded in becoming a regular actor and TV personality realizing her dream when she was in high school (source en.Wikipedia).u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eAs mentioned, Iu0026#39;m not too familiar with Mihirou0026#39;s works, and only realized that this is a movie about her because Iu0026#39;ve heard of her name before. She probably had what it takes to obtain the success she has. Real life Mihiro shows up few times in this movie as well. Itu0026#39;s an interesting look into the Japanese porn industry. As usual the Japanese seems to take their jobs deadly seriously, and the producers (at least the ones sheu0026#39;s worked with) werenu0026#39;t sleazy at all, but went on with the production of their videos with dedication and professionalism.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eFor people who arenu0026#39;t familiar with Mihiro, this is rather a slow movie, that doesnu0026#39;t have much ups and downs to its story. How this movie rates for you probably depends a lot on how familiar you are with Mihiro, and how much of a fan of hers you are.”