The Naked Director

(Pasting what I wrote about it on XBIZ after season 1 came out)

This is a very well-done drama about one of the first rebel film-makers in the JAV industry, Toru Muranishi --> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toru_Muranishi

They definitely are making things a bit more fanciful for the sake of entertaining programming, but I think they got the broad strokes of what was going on in Japan when it came to adult magazines and video in the early 1980’s.

The never-ending internecine censorship conflicts between studios and the government (and Ethics companies which were a pleasant surprise in episode 4) is handled well. People abroad sometimes wonder if JAV studios are run by puritans and as we see in this series, the answer is a resounding NO. They want to show as much as possible, but don’t want to go to jail—something the protagonist of this series did on several occasions.

A great watch if you’re curious to see how the world’s second largest adult video market came into being and want to be entertained at the same time.



Season 2 is also very good, but it also went from the co-stars being Toru AND the nascent JAV industry to Toru, a hyper ambitious entrepreneur who just happened to be the owner of an adult video production company.

True - Season 1 was really good and interesting - Season 2 seemed to go off track, but still enjoyable if you know the characters

Saw some trailers about the show, but never watched, how good is it?

Subjectively good. Great if you have ever worked on the production side of porn, but a fun story if all you really know is images on a computer screen.

Plus Bonus Points if you are interested in how the video biz started in Japan...

Interesting, thanks for the heads up, will take a look for sure