The Naked Director
 

Just finished Season 2 - Check it out - Netflix - VERY GOOD! :thumbsup

(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 :thumbsup

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 :thumbsup