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1. YU?? ? ?????????

   November 10th, 2009 at 9:37 pm

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   Japan is a civilized country. I don’t think you can get any far in showbuisness by spreading the legs.
   Awful things: Paparazzi just like in every other countries sniffing for some sort of scoop.

   edit:
   Wow, give me a chance! Child pornography is absolutely forbidden in japan and strictly prohibited by law and moral. I think the assumption below is misleading.
   You can even buy teen magazines with posing photos of teen-models like “bravo” in germany, and i believe the german law is far more tight concerning child pornography than most other countries.
   ”A lot of Japanese film producers began their careers filming porn.”, some examples would be nice.

2. Rabbityama

   November 13th, 2009 at 3:57 pm

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   While it MAY happen, the Japanese don’t have that sort of perception about their famous actresses and the Japanese media does not report so much about that sort of thing.

   A lot of Japanese film producers began their careers filming porn. They proved they could operate a camera by producing the porn and then moved up from there. Sometimes there are little allusions to the pornography background in the movies. That’s not a scandal, though.

   Corruption in the entertainment industry in Japan is probably more related to money-laundering, embezzlement, mismanagement… The typical issues with Japanese bureaucracy.

   The child porn and such is still a big problem. You can still buy magazines with 12 year olds in swimsuits in “sexy poses” right in the supermarkets.

   (Just because child porn is illegal, doesn’t mean it’s been eliminated, and Japan doesn’t do all that much to prevent it’s sales. Japan is still known worldwide as the top seller/producer of child porn! Recently, Japan has supposedly begun cracking down on child porn, but… I’m not sure how much they’ve actually done. There’s nothing misleading about facts

   If you want examples of porn producer turned movie producer, perhaps the best example right now is the director of the highly acclaimed movie “The Departures”, Yojiro Takita. Yes, he is one of them!

   Yu: Just because you don’t know or don’t want to believe it, doesn’t mean it isn’t true.)

3. Robyn

   November 15th, 2009 at 1:55 pm

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   How should we know? Most of us are not in the entertainment industry.

   As for the casting couch syndrome, as the term originated in the US movie industry I’d think it fair to say that it’s not restricted to the far East, and neither is child porn in case you hadn’t noticed.

   Exploitation of teens? Yes, very common in the west. Check for info on Teri Shields, or there was some actor in a popular show whose growth was stunted by an illness and his family kept his earnings for themselves in the belief he’d soon die. Just two examples from billions of cases.

   Stop getting so over-excited about ‘foreigners’ doing the same things that happen all over the world, because it’s happening in your own homeland too.