, formerly known as Mr. President, is one of 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...

's largest adult video (AV) producers, featuring an extensive catalog of video titles.

Company information

The Moodyz website, www.moodyz.com, went online in March 2000 and the company released its first videos in September 2000 starting with Costume Princess starring Maiko Yuki. One of the studios earliest stars was 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...

 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...

 who appeared in her own installment of the Costume Princess series in December 2000. In October 2002, the company's fortunes were boosted by signing 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...

 to an exclusive contract for Moodyz beginning with her debut video Number.1!.

To mark their fifth anniversary in September 2005, the studio released the fantasy costume drama, A Queendom of Eros

A Queendom of Eros

is a 2005 Japanese adult video directed by KINGDOM for Moodyz. The video won the top prize Moodyz Award at the 2005 Moodyz Awards ceremony.-Plot synopsis:...

, directed by KINGDOM

Kingdom (director)

KINGDOM is a Japanese adult video director who was born in Sapporo, Japan in 1975. According to his official website , he had directed more than 400 videos while specializing in the and genres of Japanese porn....

 and starring 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...

, Azusa Ayano, Jun Seto, Miki Komori, Shuri Himesaki and Yuna Takizawa. The work's elaborate sets and props made it one of the most expensive adult videos produced.

Moodyz is part of the large AV conglomerate 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 Moodyz produced videos through retail sales and via mail order and digital download from its DMM website. The Moodyz company manager and representative is Hitomi Niwa (丹羽ひとみ).

The company produces about 30-35 new releases and compilation videos per month and in September 2011 the DMM website listed more than 4000 DVD titles and over 1200 VHS tapes available under the Moodyz name.

Moodyz labels

Moodyz produces various genres of videos under different labels. These range from softer glamour works to more hardcore

Hardcore pornography

Hardcore pornography is a form of pornography that features explicit sexual acts. The term was coined in the second half of the 20th century to distinguish it from softcore pornography. It usually takes the form of photographs, often displayed in magazines or on the Internet, or films. It can also...

 scenes featuring bukkake, gokkun

Gokkun

is a Japanese term for a sexual activity in which a woman consumes the semen of one or more men. It also refers to the sexual act of swallowing semen after performing fellatio or participating in a bukkake...

, anal sex

Anal sex

Anal sex is the sex act in which the penis is inserted into the anus of a sexual partner. The term can also include other sexual acts involving the anus, including pegging, anilingus , fingering, and object insertion.Common misconception describes anal sex as practiced almost exclusively by gay men...

, simulated rape

Rape

Rape is a type of sexual assault usually involving sexual intercourse, which is initiated by one or more persons against another person without that person's consent. The act may be carried out by physical force, coercion, abuse of authority or with a person who is incapable of valid consent. The...

, and interracial videos with black actors. Listed below are the labels used by Moodyz over the years.

• ACID
• ALL - amateur nanpa
  Nanpa
  , also transliterated as nampa, in Japanese culture is a type of flirting and seduction popular among teenagers and people in their twenties and thirties. When Japanese women pursue men in a fashion similar to nanpa, it is called .-Etymology:...
  
   themes
• ASS
• BEST - compilations
• BOMB
• Collection
• DIVA
• EDGE
• ES - FemDom
  Female dominance
  Female dominance is those BDSM relationships and BDSM scenes in which the dominant partner is female. Often a dominant woman, she may prefer to be called a Domme , Femdomme, Domina, or Dominatrix, depending on context or personal preference...
  
   fetish
• Fresh - new actresses
• Gati - features bukkake, gokkun, anal sex - mature women
• GREAT
• Honey
• IMAGE
• Imperial
• ISM
• Joker
• Killer
• Legend - popular 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
• MODERATO - featured actresses
• NEW - actress debuts
• OH - bukkake, interracial
• President
• QUEST
• REAL - popular actresses
• REPLAY - compilations at low prices
• TOKKAR
• VALUE - bargain videos
• WILD - hardcore, anal, urination & rape scenes

Directors

Directors who have worked extensively for Moodyz 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...
  
  
• Hideto Aki
  Hideto Aki
  is a Japanese adult video director who has directed more than 300 movies since 1998.-Life and career:Hideto Aki was born in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan in 1970. He tells how AV Idol Hitomi Kobayashi came to his neighborhood video rental shop when he was 17 and he shook hands with her and more than...
  
  
• FLAGMAN
• Katsuyuki Hasegawa
• Hiroa
• KINGDOM
  Kingdom (director)
  KINGDOM is a Japanese adult video director who was born in Sapporo, Japan in 1975. According to his official website , he had directed more than 400 videos while specializing in the and genres of Japanese porn....
  
  
• Alala Kurosawa
  Alala Kurosawa
  , also known as Arara Kurosawa, is a Japanese adult video director who has specialized in producing videos in the Japanese porn genre of bukkake...
  
  
• Kazuhiko Matsumoto
  Kazuhiko Matsumoto
  is a prominent Japanese adult video director, credited with inventing the bukkake genre of Japanese pornography.-MVG:Matsumoto was the founder and first director of M's Video Group in 1995...
  
  
• Kenzo Nagira
• Yuji Sakamoto
  Yuji Sakamoto
  is a Japanese adult video director who has directed more than 250 videos during his career, primarily with the Alice Japan studio.-Life and career:...
  
  
• Fubuki Sakura
• Taikei Shimizu
• Goro Tameike
  Goro Tameike
  is a Japanese adult video director who has directed more than 450 videos. He was one of the first exponents of the genre in AV.-Life and career:...
  
  
• Tadanori Usami
• Bunchou Yoshino

Actresses

Since its inception a number of prominent 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 have performed in Moodyz videos including the following actresses:

• Yua Aida
  Yua Aida
  is an award-winning former Japanese model and AV idol.-Early life:Yua Aida was born in Aichi Prefecture, Japan, on 12 August 1984. Aida was an active girl and involved in many sporting activities during primary and middle school. Tennis was her strongest sport throughout middle school. In high...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Runa Akasaka
  Runa Akasaka
  is a Japanese actress who is best known for her appearances in adult videos . Akasaka's career in AV lasted about four years, with 70 to 100 videos listed for her at two major retailers at the end of 2008...
  
  
• Kokoro Amano
  Kokoro Amano
  , is an AV Idol who starred in pornographic movies between 2001 and 2004 . She worked mainly for Soft On Demand and Moodyz.-Life and career:Kokoro was born 30 August 1982 in the city of Miyako, Iwate Prefecture, Japan. She was seeking employment at the time that she was recruited for work in the AV...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Kyoko Ayana
  Kyoko Ayana
  , born April 15, 1981 in Japan's Kanagawa Prefecture, is a Japanese AV Idol who debuted in 2001. According to Peter Payne, founder of the Japanese popular culture site, J-List, Ayana had "claimed Japan's top big breast idol spot."-Life and career:...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Yui Haruka
• 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:...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Rinako Hirasawa
  Rinako Hirasawa
  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 2007.- 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:...
  
  
• Hikari Kisugi
• Kirari Koizumi
• Mayu Koizumi
• Ai Kurosawa
  Ai Kurosawa
  is an award-winning Japanese model and AV idol. She made her debut in the adult entertainment field in 2001, and after appearing in dozens of AVs , she retired in 2006 but made a comeback in 2007.-Early life:...
  
  
• Marina Kyono
• 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 :...
  
  
• Momoka
• Ran Monbu
• Kyoko Nakajima
  Kyoko Nakajima
  is a Japanese AV idol of the early 2000s.-AV debut & VIP:Nakajima was born on March 12, 1983 in Saitama Prefecture, Japan), and her interests include music and tennis.She made her AV debut in May 2003 with the video I Want More Than a Kiss! for the h.m.p...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Naho Ozawa
  Naho Ozawa
  is a Japanese model, singer and a former prolific AV idol. She retired from the adult industry in 2007.-AV debut - Try-Heart:...
  
  
• Nao Saejima
  Nao Saejima
  is a Japanese AV idol and model of the 1980s and 1990s who also starred in photobooks, V-Cinema, and feature films, including Nikkatsu's Roman Porno series.-AV career:...
  
  
• 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":...
  
  
• Sayuki
• Izumi Seika
• Manami Suzuki
• Maki Tomoda
  Maki Tomoda
  is an award-winning Japanese actress who is best known for her appearances in adult videos where her long and varied career has cemented her status as an AV idol...
  
  
• Aki Tomosaki
  Aki Tomosaki
  is a Japanese actress who has made a name for herself in the growing "mature woman" genre of the Japanese AV industry. The Japanese AV industry has awarded her for her work in this genre.-Life and career:...
  
  
• 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...
  
  

Bonenkai and Moodyz Awards

Beginning in December 2001, Moodyz has held an annual year-end bonenkai

Bonenkai

A is a Japanese drinking party that takes place at the end of the year, and is generally held among groups of co-workers or friends. The purpose of the party, as its name implies, is to forget the woes and troubles of the past year, usually by consumption of large amounts of alcohol. A bōnenkai...

 (忘年会) party for its actresses and staff. This gala event with participants in full evening dress started out modestly with 217 participants at the "Nepushisu" Restaurant in Tokyo on December 27, 2001. The 2002 party had 400 guests and by 2003 the number had risen to 700 and then to over 1000 for the 2005 event. Guests included actresses and staff, managers, friends, and the press. The party was also the venue for the annual Moodyz Awards celebrating the work of Moodyz actresses and directors.

Dream School series

The Dream School (ドリーム学園) or Dream Gakuen series is one of Moodyz oldest, best selling and most honored set of videos. The first volume was released in July 2001 when Moodyz had been in existence only a little over a year. Dream School 2 and Dream School 5 were the 2001 and 2002 winners of the Grand Prize Moodyz Award at the annual Moodyz Awards while Dream School 7 won the 2003 award for most sales. In 2006 Dream School 10 was the Moodyz entry in the AV Open

AV Open

AV Open is a major awards contest for the Japanese adult video industry. It has gone from a limited sales contest in 2006 to become, via its successor the AV GrandPrix, the major Japanese AV award with nearly 100 participating companies competing for the 2009 awards.-AV Open Origins:The AV Open...

 contest where it took the 2nd Place Award. Again in 2007, Moodyz nominated another entry in the series, Dream School 11, for the AV Open where it won the 3rd Place Award. The series has continued with Dream School 12 released in June 2008.

The Dream School videos, all directed by Taikei Shimizu, have usually been major productions running 3 or 4 hours and having a large cast of actors and actresses. They are plotted as dramas taking place in a high-school setting and include a medley of porn genres including bukkake, gokkun, S&M, simulated rape, urolagnia

Urolagnia

Urolagnia is a paraphilia in which sexual excitement is associated with the sight or thought of urine or urination. The term has origins in the Greek Language .Those who enjoy urolagnia may enjoy urinating on another person or persons, or being urinated upon...

, anal sex, orgies and even occasionally scat

Coprophilia

Coprophilia , also called scatophilia or scat, is the paraphilia involving sexual pleasure from feces...

 and bestiality. Several AV stars have appeared in the series including 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...

, Izumi Seika, 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 :...

, 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:...

, 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:...

, Kokoro Amano

Kokoro Amano

, is an AV Idol who starred in pornographic movies between 2001 and 2004 . She worked mainly for Soft On Demand and Moodyz.-Life and career:Kokoro was born 30 August 1982 in the city of Miyako, Iwate Prefecture, Japan. She was seeking employment at the time that she was recruited for work in the AV...

, 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....

, 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...

 and 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...

.

Other series

This is a selected listing of the more than 200 thematic video series which have been produced under various Moodyz labels.

• Amateur Doll (素人生ドル)
• Black Men and Sex (黒人とセックス) - interracial
• Black Semen in L.A. (ブラックザーメン in L.A.) - interracial
• Bukkake Nakadashi Anal Fuck (ぶっかけ中出しアナルFuck)
• Digital Mosaic (デジタルモザイク) - mosaic censoring applied by computer instead of analog methods
• Costume Play 7 (コスプレ7) - 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...
  
  
• Disposable Masochist Slave (使い捨てM奴隷)
• Dream Idol (ドリームアイドル)
• Dream Woman (ドリームウーマン) - bukkake
• For the Best Onaniae (最高のオナニーのために)
• Genuine Nakadashi (真性中出し)
• Gokkun Club (ごっくんくらぶ) or "Gokkun kurabu" - gokkun
  Gokkun
  is a Japanese term for a sexual activity in which a woman consumes the semen of one or more men. It also refers to the sexual act of swallowing semen after performing fellatio or participating in a bukkake...
  
  
• Gokkun Land (ゴックンランド) - gokkun
• Hyper-Digital Mosaic (ハイパーデジタルモザイク)
• Lewd Women Swallowing Sperm (痴女と精子) or "Chijo onna to seishi"
• Paipan Hyper Digital Mosaic (パイパンハイパーデジタルモザイク)
• Sell Debut (初セル)
• Sex on the Beach
• Sperm Viking (男汁バイキング)
• Torture Club (拷問くらぶ)
• Women Who Want to See the Penis (チンポを見たがる女たち)