Husband, Grandfather, Retiree Also Is Japanese Porn Star

From The Globe And The Mail Newspaper

It?s said that everyone has a secret. What was unique about Shigeo Tokuda?s fib was that everything he wasn?t telling his wife and daughter was on recorded on hundreds of videos, and that thousands of admirers knew exactly who he was and what he was trying to hide.

For a long time, Mr. Tokuda was not just the world?s oldest porn star, he was perhaps its most anonymous. His family didn?t know where the 76-year-old really went and what he did when the retired travel agent pulled on his blazer and went off to ?work? in the morning.

But among his fans ? and there are enough of them to justify the making of at least one new film a month ? Mr. Tokuda is the superstar of the rising genre of ?elder porn,? movies that feature older actors (at least the male ones) and plotlines in which the growing number of Japanese senior citizens (again, at least the males) can picture themselves. His most famous role is as a senior citizen who acts anything but his age with an assortment of nurses, as well as with his twentysomething daughter-in-law.

Elder porn is a fast-growing industry in Japan, which has a population that is both the oldest in the world as well as the world?s second-largest consumers of pornography (after the United States). By his count, Mr. Tokuda has appeared in some 350 films, with another project ? Prohibited Elderly Care Vol. 45 ? already in production.

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