Waap Entertainment ( ワープエンタテインメント , Waapu Entateinmento ) is a Japanese adult video production company with headquarters in the Shinjuku Building, Shinjuku, Tokyo .
18-501: Waap Entertainment was founded in 1998 and released its first videos in December of that year. The company specializes in single actress videos and is best known for its Dream Shower ( ドリームシャワー , Doriimu Shawaa ) series which premiered on December 17, 1998, with Dream Shower No.1 starring Izumi Maki and directed by Alala Kurosawa . The series is part bukkake and part gangbang and has appeared in more than sixty installments on
36-676: A considerable number of videos for the IdeaPocket studio, mostly working in their popular "Digital Channel" series. For the 2009 AV Grand Prix competition, Moodyz entered Kurosawa's video Dream Woman DX starring Maria Ozawa , Ryou Takamiya and Natsumi Horiguchi. In addition to Ozawa, over the years Kurosawa has also worked with such major AV Idols as Sora Aoi , An Nanba , Yua Aida , Honoka , Nao Oikawa , Yuma Asami and Bunko Kanazawa . Japanese Adult Video Awards#Moodyz Awards (2001–2008) Although pornography in Japan has
54-728: A long history and is a major business, until recently, the adult video industry did not develop a broad-based set of awards for sales or performance such as the AVN Awards in American pornography. That has changed in recent years, and the two primary awards given at present (which are covered in separate articles) are the AV Grand Prix for retail and internet videos and the Adult Broadcasting Awards for programs broadcast on Japanese satellite TV. This text
72-513: Is focused on the various earlier Japanese adult video awards given in the period 1991–2008, none of which are presently active. Some were given only infrequently and many were limited to particular studios or groups of companies. The Tokyo Sports Film Awards (東京スポーツ映画大賞) are sponsored by the Japanese tabloid newspaper Tokyo Sports . The award ceremonies are always held in January for movies in
90-699: The Hokuto Corporation 's AV retailer DMM listed more than 1500 DVD titles available under the Waap Entertainment name as of September 2011. The company's reputation has extended to the Village Voice where columnist Johnny Maldoro named Waap's video Semen Club 2 ( ザーメンクラブ2 ) starring Yui Kayama as the Bukkake Best of 2003. Waap has also expanded into another area of entertainment with game, puzzle and photo collection apps for
108-399: The gangbang genre. After several years at Waap where he directed more than fifty videos, Kurosawa went on to work for the recently formed Moodyz studio where he would direct more than 160 videos. At Moodyz he instituted a new bukkake series, "Dream Woman", which began in January 2002 with the release of Dream Woman Vol. 1 ( ドリームウーマン Dream Woman Vol. 1 ) with Mayu Koizumi. By mid-2010
126-572: The iPhone featuring some of the studio's top models. Waap has used a number of different labels for its videos since 1998: Prominent directors at Waap Entertainment include: Popular AV Idols who have appeared in Waap Entertainment videos include: Some popular Waap series: For the 2006 AV Open competition, Waap entered both the Main Stage and the Challenge stage. Their Main Stage entry
144-710: The "BIGGEST ADULT SITE IN JAPAN!!", is the website of the Kuki Inc. conglomerate of adult video producers which includes Alice Japan , Media Station (Cosmos Plan), Max-A , SexiA , VIP and others. For a time it sponsored a fan vote based competition called the Adult Video Grand Prix (or Grandprix) which gave awards in various categories. Voting was done at the official website usually in November and early December for works and actresses nominated for that year. Results were announced in late December. Most of
162-844: The 1999 entertainment year. They run in parallel with the Tokyo Sports Film Awards. Filmmaker, director and actor Takeshi Kitano is the head of the screening committee. Awards are given in the Performing Arts but from the start they have included categories for adult video work. The adult awards ceased after the 2006 presentations. Star AV Actress Star AV Actor Star AV Actress Star AV Actor Star AV Actress Star AV Actor Best AV Title Star AV Actress Star AV Actor Best AV Title Star AV Actress Star AV Actor Best AV Title Star AV Actress Star AV Actor Best AV Title Star AV Actress Star AV Actor Best AV Title X City,
180-492: The 2009 AV Grand Prix, Waap took one of the Special Awards Fetish Video for Tsubomi - Semen Club ( 蕾に滴る野蛮な汁 ), AVGP-148, with Tsubomi, directed by Takuan. Alala Kurosawa Alala Kurosawa ( 黒澤あらら , Kurosawa Alala ) , also known as Arara Kurosawa , is a Japanese adult video (AV) director who has specialized in producing videos in the Japanese porn genre of bukkake . He has been called
198-413: The best in the industry at "semen" ( ザーメン , zāmen ) movies and by late 2011 had directed more than 300 adult videos. Kurosawa began his career as a director with Waap Entertainment as did fellow directors Kingdom and (Jo)Style . Kurosawa directed the first videos produced by Waap, the "Dream Shower" series released in December 1998. In the "Dream Shower" series, Kurosawa combined bukkake with
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#1732790168774216-454: The company's Beauty label. The studio is also recognized for having developed several prominent modern AV directors including Alala Kurosawa , [Jo]Style , K*WEST and KINGDOM. When S1 No. 1 Style introduced the new less concealing digital mosaic style of censorship in late 2004, Waap followed soon afterward with their own Digital Mosaic ( デジエロモザイク , Dejieromozaiku ) videos. Waap Entertainment produces about 10 new videos per month and
234-599: The nominees and awards for actresses and videos are from companies associated with Kuki. Best AV Idol Award Determined by fan e-mail votes from the official website. Votes were for New Faces, Big Breasts, Most Beautiful and Wildest. The overall Grand Prix winner was chosen from a combination these votes. The voting period was from November 12 to December 12, 1999 and the winners were announced December 24, 1999. Grand Prix Winner Best Newcomer Award Best Breasts Award Most Beautiful Actress Award Best Nasty Actress Award No information on results Voting
252-730: The previous year. The first awards were given in 1991 for the 1990 cinema year. The awards were for mainstream movies but occasionally awards were also given for adult video work. The sometimes idiosyncratic selections were made by famed filmmaker and actor Takeshi Kitano . Adult awards ended with the establishment of the Takeshi Kitano Entertainment Awards in 2000. AV Award Best Actress No AV Awards given 1992–1997 AV Award Best Actress AV Award Best Actor AV Award Best Actress AV Award Best Actor The Takeshi Kitano Entertainment Awards (ビートたけしのエンターテインメント賞) were begun by Tokyo Sports in 2000 for
270-604: The series, all directed by Kurosawa, had reached Volume 78 starring Hitomi Tanaka. While at Moodyz, Kurosawa was given the Best Director Award at the 2002 and 2003 Moodyz Awards ceremony. At the 2004 Moodyz Awards, he was given both a Directors Award and a Special Directors Award. When the new studio, S1 No. 1 Style , was founded in November 2004, Kurosawa was one of their first directors, releasing his bukkake themed production, Love Love Date ( ラブラブデート ) with Akane Mochida, in December 2004. Kurosawa also made
288-531: Was Only One - Miracle Woman ( ONLY ONE 奇跡の女 ), video OPEN-0616, featuring several amateur actresses. In the Challenge Stage, the company nominated Divide My Pleasure ( 濃厚な面接 ) directed by Kirin, starring Ren Hitomi and Yuri Ueno, and labelled OPEN-0652. Waap Entertainment was also one of the 19 companies which submitted entries for the 2007 AV Open contest. Their entry Deep Lesbian & Hot Semen & Black Fuck ( 熱吻ブラック ), labelled OPEN-0717,
306-407: Was an interracial video starring Marin and Shiho, and directed by K*WEST . which finished in 8th place overall and won a Lily Franky Honorary President Prize. The company was also one of the participants in the Hokuto Corporation sponsored 2008 AV Grand Prix with their entry Shall We Fuck x10 ( 現役東●生の挿入十番勝負とギリギリモザイク ), AVGP-042, starring Lemon Tachibana and directed by K*WEST and Goemon. In
324-427: Was done by making selections by e-mail from the official site. Voting ended December 27, 2001: Best Actress Award Also nominated for Best Actress were Momo Kanda and Koharu Tohno Best New Actress Award Also nominated for Best New Actress were Asuka Ozora and Ayumi Tahara Best Video Title Award Best Breasts Award Best Lolita Award Prettiest Face Award Best Mature Actress Award Results of
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