is a Japanese adult video production company with headquarters in the Shinjuku Building, Shinjuku, Tokyo

Shinjuku, Tokyo

is one of the 23 special wards of Tokyo, Japan. It is a major commercial and administrative center, housing the busiest train station in the world and the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building, the administration center for the government of Tokyo.As of 2008, the ward has an estimated population...

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Company information

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 series which premiered on December 17, 1998 with Dream Shower No.1 starring Izumi Maki and directed by 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...

. The series is part bukkake and part gangbang and has appeared in more than sixty installments on the company's Beauty label. The studio is also recognized for having developed several prominent modern AV directors including 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...

, [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...

, K*WEST and 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....

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When S1 No. 1 Style

S1 No. 1 Style

or just S1 is a major Japanese producer of adult videos which has its offices in Tokyo's Meguro Ward.-Company Information:S1 is one of the many affiliated companies in the giant Hokuto Corporation group. Hokuto distributes the studio's videos via retail sales and online through its DMM website...

 introduced the new less concealing digital mosaic style of censorship in late 2004, Waap followed soon afterward with their own videos. Waap Entertainment produces about 10 new videos per month and 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...

'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 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 the iPhone

IPhone

The iPhone is a line of Internet and multimedia-enabled smartphones marketed by Apple Inc. The first iPhone was unveiled by Steve Jobs, then CEO of Apple, on January 9, 2007, and released on June 29, 2007...

 featuring some of the studio's top models.

Labels

Waap has used a number of different labels for its videos since 1998:

• Beauty
• Boin Club
• Cobra
• Dragons Gate
• Encore
• Fearless
• Foxy
• Gone
• Jelly
• Kohshiro
• Milk
• Select
• Shoot
• So
• Star Box
• un/limited
• Washing Machine

Directors

Prominent directors at Waap Entertainment 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...
  
  
• Goemon
• 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....
  
  
• Koushirou
• 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...
  
  
• K*WEST

Actresses

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 who have appeared in Waap Entertainment videos include:

• 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...
  
  
• 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:...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Kirari Koizumi
• 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...
  
  
• Marin
• 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....
  
  
• Miki Mizuasa
  Miki Mizuasa
  AKA Miki Miasa is a transsexual Japanese adult video actress.-Life and career:Miki Mizuasa was born June 11, 1980 and has been active in adult video work in Japan since 2004. The box covers from several of her videos have her name as Miki Miasa and she did at least one video early in her career as...
  
  
• 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 :...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Asuka Sakamaki
  Asuka Sakamaki
  is a Japanese AV idol from Tokyo who was born on October 8, 1982.-AV career:Sakamaki made her AV debut in May 2002 in the video First Class for Try Heart's Sexia label, the label under which she continued to appear in several more videos...
  
  
• 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 Tachibana
  Riko Tachibana
  is a popular and award-winning Japanese adult video idol . Taller than average, Tachibana debuted in 2003 and starred in many adult videos which emphasized her height. An extremely prolific actress, Tachibana had performed in over 200 AVs when she was awarded for Most Appearances at Japan's Adult...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• 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:...
  
  

Series

Some popular Waap series:

• Dream Shower
• Slut Actress
• Your Masturbation Will Help You

AV Open / AV Grand Prix

For the 2006 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...

 competition, Waap entered both the Main Stage and the Challenge stage. Their Main Stage entry was Only One - Miracle Woman , video OPEN-0616, featuring several amateur actresses. In the Challenge Stage, the company nominated Divide My Pleasure 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

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. Their entry Deep Lesbian & Hot Semen & Black Fuck , labelled OPEN-0717, 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

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...

 sponsored 2008 AV Grand Prix with their entry Shall We Fuck x10 , AVGP-042, starring Lemon Tachibana and directed by K*WEST and Goemon. In the 2009 AV Grand Prix, Waap took one of the Special Awards Fetish Video for Tsubomi - Semen Club , AVGP-148, with Tsubomi, directed by Takuan.