Posted on 03/05/2011 9:23:01 AM PST by llevrok
Reporting from Tokyo At the seemingly fragile age of 76, his story is the stuff of Hollywood legend (Well, maybe the seamier side of the San Fernando Valley), a tale made more outlandish because it happened to a buttoned-down salary man in hyper-conservative Japan.
For years, a Tokyo grandfather kept a dirty little secret from his family. Longtime travel agent Shigeo Tokuda, who resembles countless older men who ride the Tokyo subway each day, admitted to his wife and daughter that he sometimes performed cameos in small-budget films.
But what this senior citizen didn't say was that those scenes, often staged in would-be retirement homes, involved getting naked with actresses young enough to be his granddaughter. Since he was "discovered" in 1996, Tokuda has emerged as a major player in Japan's emerging adult movie genre known as "elder porn." He says he has appeared in more than 350 films such as "Prohibited Nursing" and "Maniac Training of Lolitas." In these scripts, Tokuda always gets the girl.
(snip) . "It's not that I'm proud, but it feels nice to be useful," he says. "My wife is glad that at my age I've still got someplace to go."
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
You and I have the same reaction to this story.
However, their culture is very different in the area of gender relationships.
They think kind of like the guy who said, “Winning!”
Not necessarily...;o)
I’m an optimist.
Men tend to be that way about certain subjects. ;o)
“What, you think this behavior is exclusive to Japan?”
1. I didn’t say it was; and
2. Neither of those hosehounds is anywhere near “young” by Japanese standards.
LOL!
There’s not a thing wrong with keeping your enthusiasm up, especially when some other things don’t go your way.
Haha - oh Dixie, Saturday Night Live had a great bunch of jokes about charliesheen last night - they were discussing his “winning!” comments....and said the big winners of the week were parents of porn stars NOT living with charliesheen! lol they also said the loser of the week was the word winning because now it has an entirely different meaning.
Run it up the flagpole and we’ll see who salutes.
Knowing you, I have a feeling that there is nothing to worry about, but the geriatric porn star? Um...
Enough of this nitwitery! Stop it at once!
I ♥ Slings and Arrows.
Oh stop. We’ve been FRiends for a long time. You’re nice.
Did you steal that smiley from me, or did I steal it from you? I forget.
Yes.
LOL! You win. Again. ;-p
You’re dang right about that! And, sometimes...you can make those “other things” go your way.
LOL! I missed the show, but it sounds like it was a hoot and a half!
I did see one clip where he had a talk show with all of the biggest losers in the world...Duh Winning! Is that what you’re talking about?
It was very funny!
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