Attackers
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is a Japanese adult video  (AV) production company located in Tokyo
Tokyo
, ; officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan. Tokyo is the capital of Japan, the center of the Greater Tokyo Area, and the largest metropolitan area of Japan. It is the seat of the Japanese government and the Imperial Palace, and the home of the Japanese Imperial Family...

, Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

.

Company information

Attackers started as an independent ("indie") studio but is now one of the companies that make up the large AV group, the Hokuto Corporation
Hokuto Corporation
The is a Japanese joint stock company involved in the distribution of adult videos and adult toys. The firm, founded in March 1990, is headquartered in Tokyo at the Ebisu Garden Place Tower. By late 2008, Hokuto was handling products from more than 150 different adult video studios, making it the...

, which distributes Attackers video products through their DMM website. The Attackers studio released its first four videos (with themes of sexual violence and rape) in February 1997 on the Shark label numbered SHK-001 to SHK-004. Among early Attackers stars performing on the Shark label in the late 1990s were AV Idol
AV Idol
An AV idol is a Japanese idol who works in the pornographic business, often both as an actress as well as a model as the video performances have a wide range, from just the idol strolling around their house doing chores in bikinis to hardcore porn...

s Sally Yoshino
Sally Yoshino
is a Japanese striptease dancer, model, and AV idol. She has also performed under the name .-Early life:Sally Yoshino was born in Tokyo on November 28, 1978. Her father was a member of a skate team, and Yoshino began figure skating at the age of three...

, Kyōko Kazama
Kyōko Kazama
is a Japanese AV idol and pink film actress. She has appeared in award-winning pink films, and was herself given a "Best Supporting Actress" award in two successive years for her work in this genre in 2006 and 2007.-Life and career:...

 and Yuri Komuro
Yuri Komuro
is a Japanese AV idol, actress, and author. She was one of the top actresses in the AV field during the late 1990s.-Early life and AV career:Yuri Komuro was born in Japan's Kanagawa Prefecture on July 28, 1976,...

.

The studio also started another imprint, Idea Pocket, to market its softer Angel series of cosplay
Cosplay
, short for "costume play", is a type of performance art in which participants don costumes and accessories to represent a specific character or idea. Characters are often drawn from popular fiction in Japan, but recent trends have included American cartoons and science fiction...

 videos which were first released in December 1998 including one, Angel 9, which starred Sally Yoshino
Sally Yoshino
is a Japanese striptease dancer, model, and AV idol. She has also performed under the name .-Early life:Sally Yoshino was born in Tokyo on November 28, 1978. Her father was a member of a skate team, and Yoshino began figure skating at the age of three...

. Idea Pocket later split off to become an independent company.

The company specializes in videos portraying simulated rape, torture and bondage. The two main bondage genre labels are Jabaku (蛇縛) and Ryubaku (龍縛). The Jabaku series often stars well-known actresses and uses high production values and elaborate sets. The emphasis is on bondage and gagging with some light S&M. The Ryubaku label was introduced in 2000 as a softer version of the Jabaku line with more consensual action and fantasy role-playing.

The studio usually releases a total of about 10-15 original and compilation videos per month and by September 2011, the AV distributor DMM (a division of the Hokuto Corporation
Hokuto Corporation
The is a Japanese joint stock company involved in the distribution of adult videos and adult toys. The firm, founded in March 1990, is headquartered in Tokyo at the Ebisu Garden Place Tower. By late 2008, Hokuto was handling products from more than 150 different adult video studios, making it the...

) listed over 1500 Attackers titles in their catalog. The general manager of the company is Michio Maruyama (丸山道央).

Labels

Labels, past and present, used by the Attackers studio and the production code letters for each label:
  • Attackers Anthology (アタッカーズアンソロジー) - ATA (VHS) & ATAD (DVD)
  • Attackers Best (アタッカーズBEST) - ATK (VHS) & ATKD (DVD)
  • Inmad (in mad) - ATI (VHS) & ATID (DVD)
  • Jabaku (蛇縛) - JB (VHS) & JBD (DVD)
  • Ryubaku (龍縛) - RB (VHS) & RBD (DVD)
  • Shark (死夜悪) - SHK (VHS) & SHKD (DVD)
  • Super Special - SSP (VHS) & SSPD (DVD)


Discontinued labels:
  • INFERNO (いんふぇるの) - INF (VHS) & DIF (DVD)
  • Gropers (ぐろーぱーず) - GR (VHS)
  • Ranpo (乱歩) or (らんぽ)- RRP (VHS)
  • 影 shadow (しゃどう) - DOW (VHS)

Directors

Directors who have worked with the Attackers studio include:
  • [Jo]Style
    (Jo)Style
    [Jo]Style is a Japanese adult video director who has supervised more than 300 productions during his career.-Life and career:[Jo]Style began his profession directing AV at the Waap Entertainment studio which also fostered the careers of Alala Kurosawa, KINGDOM and K*WEST...

  • Eitaro Haga
    Eitaro Haga
    is a Japanese adult video director who has supervised more than 450 videos during his career, primarily for Madonna, an AV studio which specializes in the genre of Japanese pornography.-Life and career:...

  • Katsuyuki Hasegawa
  • Yui Koike
  • Kenzo Nagira
  • Mr. Watakano


Actresses

A number of well-known actresses have appeared in Attackers videos:
  • Hotaru Akane
    Hotaru Akane
    aka is an award-winning Japanese model and AV idol. She is active in many media formats in Japan including a role in a mainstream theatrical film, and is a popular blogger. Her adeptness at female ejaculation has earned Akane the title, "Shiofuki Queen". She retired from AV work in 2008.-Early...

  • Rin Aoki
    Rin Aoki
    is a Japanese model and adult video actress. She began as a Gravure idol and later moved to hardcore video work where she became an award-winning AV Idol.-Gravure Idol:...

  • Minami Aoyama
    Minami Aoyama
    is a Japanese AV idol and pink film actress. She has appeared in award-winning pink films, and was herself given a Best Actress award for her work in this genre in 2006.-Life and career:...

  • Ran Asakawa
    Ran Asakawa
    is a famous and extremely prolific Japanese model and AV idol who made her debut in the adult entertainment field in 2001.-Life and career:Ran Asakawa was born in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan on 4 September 1980. Her first sexual encounter happened when she was 19 and was with a businessman...

  • Meisa Hanai
    Meisa Hanai
    -Life and career:Hanai was born on July 20, 1986 in Japan. Like only a few other Japanese AV actresses, among them Maria Ozawa, Tina Yuzuki and Anna Ohura, she is of mixed heritage. Her father is Japanese and her mother is Bulgarian....

  • Chihiro Hara
    Chihiro Hara
    is a multiple award-winning Japanese adult video performer.-Life and career:Chihiro Hara was born on May 22, 1984 in Tokyo, Japan. She made her debut in adult videos in November 2004 with the S1 No. 1 Style studio in New Face x Semen. Her debut was part of the first group of videos simultaneously...

  • Mai Haruna
    Mai Haruna
    is a popular and prolific Japanese model and AV idol. She debuted in 2002 and performed in a variety of Japanese adult video genres until her retirement in 2005.-Life and career:...

  • Chihiro Hasegawa
    Chihiro Hasegawa
    , also known as Nami Funakura , is an award-winning Japanese AV idol who has starred in more than 200 adult videos on various labels.-Life and career:...

  • Yumika Hayashi
    Yumika Hayashi
    was a Japanese AV idol and pink film actress. She earned the title of "Japan's Original Adult Video Queen" during a 16-year career in which she starred in nearly 200 AVs and appeared in over 180 films...

  • Hikari Hino
    Hikari Hino
    is a Japanese AV idol, or porn star who has performed for several prominent adult video companies.-Life and career:Hino was born March 7, 1986 in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. In July 2005 she debuted at age 19 on the Crystal-Eizou company's Venus label in the video G's Curiosity - Hikari Hino...

  • Mayura Hoshitsuki
    Mayura Hoshitsuki
    was an award-winning Japanese adult video actress who retired from the adult industry in 2010. Her extended career, popularity and impressive filmography qualify her as an AV idol.-Life and career:...

  • Milk Ichigo
    Milk Ichigo
    , also often billed as Miruku Ichigo, is an award-winning Japanese adult video actress who has had an exceptionally long career.-Life and career:...

  • Bunko Kanazawa
    Bunko Kanazawa
    is a prolific Japanese adult film actress, who has been called "one of the biggest AV idols in Japan."-Debut - Cosmos Plan:Bunko Kanazawa was born April 4, 1979 in Kanagawa prefecture). She reports that as a child she was good at mathematics and science, but horrible in Japanese and English...

  • Mariko Kawana
    Mariko Kawana
    is a Japanese model and actress who has appeared in both softcore pink film and V-Cinema and has also been a hardcore adult video performer and director. She is now retired as an actress and has a second career as a writer.-Life and career:...

  • Kyōko Kazama
    Kyōko Kazama
    is a Japanese AV idol and pink film actress. She has appeared in award-winning pink films, and was herself given a "Best Supporting Actress" award in two successive years for her work in this genre in 2006 and 2007.-Life and career:...

  • Yuri Komuro
    Yuri Komuro
    is a Japanese AV idol, actress, and author. She was one of the top actresses in the AV field during the late 1990s.-Early life and AV career:Yuri Komuro was born in Japan's Kanagawa Prefecture on July 28, 1976,...

  • Mayu Kotono
    Mayu Kotono
    -Life and career:Kotono was born on December 15, 1980 in Tokyo, Japan. She made her adult video debut at the age of nineteen in the January 2000 video for Kuki Inc. and soon afterward appeared in a pictorial for Bejean magazine. Four months later in May 2000, she made her first video for the...

  • Jun Kusanagi
    Jun Kusanagi
    is a Japanese model and AV idol famous for her metric G-cup-sized bust. She has been called "one of Japan's most prolific and popular photo model/AV stars."-Early life:...

  • Saya Misaki
    Saya Misaki
    , also known as was a Japanese adult film actress. Misaki's career spanned over two years during which she appeared in at least seventy DVDs.- AV career :...

  • Aika Miura
    Aika Miura
    is a popular and award-winning Japanese AV idol who made a clear mark on the AV industry. In a remarkably long and prolific career for an AV actress, she released an average of one film a month over a seven year period—excepting 1998—before she retired in 2002....

  • Nozomi Momoi
    Nozomi Momoi
    was a popular and prolific Japanese AV idol, known for her "baby face that topped off a huge set of boobs" She appeared in over 100 movies, appearing in up to ten releases per month. In an incident that shocked the nation, she was murdered at the age of 24.-Early life:Nozomi Momoi was born in Tokyo...

  • Ayano Murasaki
    Ayano Murasaki
    is a Japanese adult video performer.-Life and career:Ayano Murasaki was born in the Ibaraki Prefecture of Japan on March 29, 1969. She made her adult video debut in late 2003 at the age of 34. The market for such "mature woman" or "madame" actresses appeared in Japanese porn films in the mid-1990s...

  • An Nanba
    An Nanba
    also known as Ann Nanba is a Japanese adult video actress who has had a long and prolific career during which she has won multiple awards. At the beginning of 2009, the DMM and Amazon sites both listed more than 250 DVDs available under her name. She retired from AV work in 2008.-AV debut and...

  • Nao Oikawa
    Nao Oikawa
    born April 21, 1981 in Hiroshima, Japan is a Japanese actress, TV Personality and was also a former AV idol who was very popular in early 2000s.- Life and career :...

  • Madoka Ozawa
    Madoka Ozawa
    is a Japanese AV idol and V-Cinema actress who has been described as "a very popular ... AV actress in the late 1990s" and "the number one AV idol of 1997".-Life and career:...

  • Maria Ozawa
    Maria Ozawa
    , who used the name early in her career, is a former Japanese adult video actress known in Japan as an AV idol.-Early life:Ozawa was born in Hokkaidō, Japan. Her mother is Japanese and her father is Canadian. Since she always attended an international school, she claims that her English reading...

  • Sakura Sakurada
    Sakura Sakurada
    is a Japanese actress, model and adult video star who has also used the name for still photo shoots. Her long and prolific career and international recognition mark her as an AV Idol.-Early career - "Uncensored Movies":...

  • Miki Sawaguchi
    Miki Sawaguchi
    , born September 1, 1975 in Yokohama, Japan) is one of Japan's best known adult video performers. On television she has appeared as a regular cast member on two shows and made several guest appearances on other shows...

  • Sayura Shiraishi
  • Ruka Uehara
  • Akira Watase
    Akira Watase
    was a popular and prolific Japanese AV idol who retired from the adult video industry in 2005.-Life and career:Akira Watase was born July 2, 1980 in Tokyo, Japan.). Her AV debut was in the May 2000 Media Station Cosmos Plan release, Venus....

  • Manami Yoshii
    Manami Yoshii
    is a well-known Japanese adult film actress.-Life and career:Yoshii's first AV was the November 2000 release, Growing Up Journal. Water Fruit was Yoshii's second adult video. Like her first release, it was made for the KUKI studio...

  • Sally Yoshino
    Sally Yoshino
    is a Japanese striptease dancer, model, and AV idol. She has also performed under the name .-Early life:Sally Yoshino was born in Tokyo on November 28, 1978. Her father was a member of a skate team, and Yoshino began figure skating at the age of three...

  • Maiko Yūki
    Maiko Yuki
    is a Japanese AV idol, actress, and stripper. One of the top AV idols in the mid-1990s, she was named the "AV Girl of the Year" in 1998. In 2004 Yūki was the star performer in the first Japanese strip show to perform in the People's Republic of China.-Early life:...

  • Maria Yumeno
    Maria Yumeno
    is a Japanese pink film and adult video actress. In 2003, she was called one of Japan's highest-earning AV performers and "probably its most famous." Many of her movies emphasized her large bust and thin body.-Life and career:...



Les Noir

The "Les Noir" series consisted of 5 original videos released from December 2005 to March 2007 on the Attackers Inmad label plus a compilation video from July 2007 on the Attackers Best label. All dealt with lesbian
Lesbian
Lesbian is a term most widely used in the English language to describe sexual and romantic desire between females. The word may be used as a noun, to refer to women who identify themselves or who are characterized by others as having the primary attribute of female homosexuality, or as an...

 sadomasochism and bondage (BDSM)
Bondage (BDSM)
Bondage is the use of restraints for the sexual pleasure of the parties involved. It may be used in its own right, as in the case of rope bondage and breast bondage, or as part of sexual activity or BDSM activity.- Private bondage :...

 themes and all starred Sakura Sakurada
Sakura Sakurada
is a Japanese actress, model and adult video star who has also used the name for still photo shoots. Her long and prolific career and international recognition mark her as an AV Idol.-Early career - "Uncensored Movies":...

 as a dominant woman forcing young girls into lesbian acts. All five videos were directed by former AV actress Yui Koike (小池ゆい).

Released 12/7/2005 (ATID-068)
Cast: Sakura Sakurada
Sakura Sakurada
is a Japanese actress, model and adult video star who has also used the name for still photo shoots. Her long and prolific career and international recognition mark her as an AV Idol.-Early career - "Uncensored Movies":...

, Mayu Yamaguchi, Arisa Hatano & Moe Kimishima
Released 4/7/2006 (ATID-080)
Cast: Sakura Sakurada
Sakura Sakurada
is a Japanese actress, model and adult video star who has also used the name for still photo shoots. Her long and prolific career and international recognition mark her as an AV Idol.-Early career - "Uncensored Movies":...

, Ruka Uehara, Mayura Hoshitsuki
Mayura Hoshitsuki
was an award-winning Japanese adult video actress who retired from the adult industry in 2010. Her extended career, popularity and impressive filmography qualify her as an AV idol.-Life and career:...

 & Miyu Otohime
Released 10/7/2006 (ATID-096)
Cast: Sakura Sakurada
Sakura Sakurada
is a Japanese actress, model and adult video star who has also used the name for still photo shoots. Her long and prolific career and international recognition mark her as an AV Idol.-Early career - "Uncensored Movies":...

, Misaki Asou, Miki Karasawa & Mai Kaoru
Released 12/7/2006 (ATID-110)
Cast: Sakura Sakurada
Sakura Sakurada
is a Japanese actress, model and adult video star who has also used the name for still photo shoots. Her long and prolific career and international recognition mark her as an AV Idol.-Early career - "Uncensored Movies":...

, Kaya Yonekura, Ayumi Hasegawa & Ami Nishimura
Released 3/7/2007 (ATID-114)
Cast: Sakura Sakurada
Sakura Sakurada
is a Japanese actress, model and adult video star who has also used the name for still photo shoots. Her long and prolific career and international recognition mark her as an AV Idol.-Early career - "Uncensored Movies":...

, Riko Sakura, Hotaru Akane
Hotaru Akane
aka is an award-winning Japanese model and AV idol. She is active in many media formats in Japan including a role in a mainstream theatrical film, and is a popular blogger. Her adeptness at female ejaculation has earned Akane the title, "Shiofuki Queen". She retired from AV work in 2008.-Early...

 & Azusa Nagase
Released 7/7/2007 (ATKD-103)

Slave Island

The "Slave Island" series began in December 2005 with the release of on the Attackers Ryubaku label (RBD-045). The video, starring Syuri Himesaki, Ryoko Mizusaki & Kyōko Kazama
Kyōko Kazama
is a Japanese AV idol and pink film actress. She has appeared in award-winning pink films, and was herself given a "Best Supporting Actress" award in two successive years for her work in this genre in 2006 and 2007.-Life and career:...

, and directed by Kenzo Nagira, won the Attackers Award at the 2005 Moodyz Awards. A total of 12 original "Slave Island" videos were released between December 2005 and February 2008, all under the Attackers Ryubaku label. Two 8-hour compilation works were also released in October 2008 under the Attackers Best label. The plots involve girls being kidnapped by bogus recruiters and brought to an island where they are imprisoned and turned into sex slaves. The films depict a mixture of bondage, humiliation, simulated rape, forced fellatio
Fellatio
Fellatio is an act of oral stimulation of a male's penis by a sexual partner. It involves the stimulation of the penis by the use of the mouth, tongue, or throat. The person who performs fellatio can be referred to as the giving partner, and the other person is the receiving partner...

 and urination involving both lesbian and heterosexual sex.

Other series

Other long-running series from Attackers include:
  • Anal Rape Crime (アナル凌辱事件簿)
  • CinemaShow (淫魔CINEMASHOW)
  • Cyber Madness (電脳調教)
  • Please Make This the Last Time (これで最後にしてください。)
  • Rape in Turn AKA Brute Gang Rape (鬼畜輪姦)
  • Raped In Husband's Presence (夫の目の前で犯されて)
  • Real World
  • Slave Color's Female Teacher (奴隷色の女教師)
  • Slave Color's Fiance (奴隷色のフィアンセ)
  • Slave Color's Stage (奴隷色のステージ)
  • SM Live Show! (服従調教LIVE!)
  • Snake Bondage Gang Rape (蛇縛輪姦)
  • Snake Bondage Punished Female Slaves (蛇縛の拷問折檻)
  • The Lady Panther (女豹)
  • Women in Chastity Belt (貞操帯の女)

Moodyz Awards

Beginning in 2004, Attackers took part in the annual December Moodyz Awards. In 2004 and 2005 the studio presented separate awards to its own staff but from 2006 they have taken part in the general awards process with several other Hokuto Corporation
Hokuto Corporation
The is a Japanese joint stock company involved in the distribution of adult videos and adult toys. The firm, founded in March 1990, is headquartered in Tokyo at the Ebisu Garden Place Tower. By late 2008, Hokuto was handling products from more than 150 different adult video studios, making it the...

 companies.

AV Grand Prix

Attackers was one of the studios participating in the 2008 AV Grand Prix with the video [AVGL-002] starring Rin Aoki
Rin Aoki
is a Japanese model and adult video actress. She began as a Gravure idol and later moved to hardcore video work where she became an award-winning AV Idol.-Gravure Idol:...

, Megu Ayase & Rin Hayakawa, and directed by Katsuyuki Hasegawa.

For the 2009 AV Grand Prix, the studio nominated the video [AVGL-102] with Yuuka Kokoro, Mari Hida, Kasumi, Rin Agazuma & Hiyori Wakakusa, and directed by HiroA.
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