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Kuki Inc.
Kuki Inc. (株式会社九鬼, Kabushiki gaisha Kuki) was a Japanese adult video (AV) company that was headquartered in Ebisu Minami in the Shibuya ward of Tokyo. The company was involved in the production and distribution of videos, satellite and cable TV, and a large internet site, X CITY.
The company dissolved on February 22, 2017.
The corporation was founded by Noriaki Nakagawa (中川徳章) in 1977, making it one of the oldest adult products firms in Japan. The company was originally involved in producing adult magazines but with the growth of the adult video industry, Kuki released its first Keshi Wasure Bideo (消し忘れビデオ), in 1983. Among their early stars was Sakura Sena, who made her debut with Kuki in 1994 under the name Shiho Fujiwara.
In the spring of 1995 Kuki started a website, www.kuki.co.jp, which eventually became X CITY. Some six months later, the web services division became a separate company, Alchemia Inc. (株式会社アルケミア). An English sister site was launched in 1997 and a Korean site in 1998. The company built its reputation on softer aspects of Japanese porn, and with the exception of an occasional bondage or rape-themed video, most of their output consisted of new actresses in their first videos.
By at least 1997, a number of the other older AV companies had gathered around Kuki to pool resources and use the X CITY website for sales and video on-demand: Alice Japan, Atlas21, Max-A, Big Morkal, Media Station (Cosmos Plan) and (later) Sexia. Together, they formed the largest porn conglomerate in Japan at that time although they have been surpassed since by Soft On Demand (SOD) and the Hokuto Corporation.
In 2004 the entire Kuki group had more than 100 employees, about 20 of them at web-hoster Alchemia.
Like many of the older and larger AV companies in Japan, Kuki has been a member of the ethics group Nihon Ethics of Video Association (NEVA) which regulates content and the censorship mosaic required in Japanese porn videos. This resulted in many of the older videos produced by Kuki having a large, blocky analog mosaic as opposed to the newer thinner digital mosaics now in common use. From late 2007, Kuki has been re-issuing many of its older videos in the new mosaic as the Kuki Pink (KUKIピンクファイル) series.
The "John See" series was a collaboration between Kuki founder Noriaki Nakagawa and performance artist John Duncan who resided in Japan from 1982 to 1986. Nakagawa offered to produce a series of commercial adult videos through Kuki which were written, directed and edited by Duncan under the name John See. Duncan looked on the experience as an experiment and an attempt to stretch the stereotypical boundaries of adult film. For Kuki, which may not have recouped their investment in the videos, it was good publicity. Reviews were mixed, those viewing them as art were positive but those looking at them strictly as hardcore porn were quite negative.
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Kuki Inc.
Kuki Inc. (株式会社九鬼, Kabushiki gaisha Kuki) was a Japanese adult video (AV) company that was headquartered in Ebisu Minami in the Shibuya ward of Tokyo. The company was involved in the production and distribution of videos, satellite and cable TV, and a large internet site, X CITY.
The company dissolved on February 22, 2017.
The corporation was founded by Noriaki Nakagawa (中川徳章) in 1977, making it one of the oldest adult products firms in Japan. The company was originally involved in producing adult magazines but with the growth of the adult video industry, Kuki released its first Keshi Wasure Bideo (消し忘れビデオ), in 1983. Among their early stars was Sakura Sena, who made her debut with Kuki in 1994 under the name Shiho Fujiwara.
In the spring of 1995 Kuki started a website, www.kuki.co.jp, which eventually became X CITY. Some six months later, the web services division became a separate company, Alchemia Inc. (株式会社アルケミア). An English sister site was launched in 1997 and a Korean site in 1998. The company built its reputation on softer aspects of Japanese porn, and with the exception of an occasional bondage or rape-themed video, most of their output consisted of new actresses in their first videos.
By at least 1997, a number of the other older AV companies had gathered around Kuki to pool resources and use the X CITY website for sales and video on-demand: Alice Japan, Atlas21, Max-A, Big Morkal, Media Station (Cosmos Plan) and (later) Sexia. Together, they formed the largest porn conglomerate in Japan at that time although they have been surpassed since by Soft On Demand (SOD) and the Hokuto Corporation.
In 2004 the entire Kuki group had more than 100 employees, about 20 of them at web-hoster Alchemia.
Like many of the older and larger AV companies in Japan, Kuki has been a member of the ethics group Nihon Ethics of Video Association (NEVA) which regulates content and the censorship mosaic required in Japanese porn videos. This resulted in many of the older videos produced by Kuki having a large, blocky analog mosaic as opposed to the newer thinner digital mosaics now in common use. From late 2007, Kuki has been re-issuing many of its older videos in the new mosaic as the Kuki Pink (KUKIピンクファイル) series.
The "John See" series was a collaboration between Kuki founder Noriaki Nakagawa and performance artist John Duncan who resided in Japan from 1982 to 1986. Nakagawa offered to produce a series of commercial adult videos through Kuki which were written, directed and edited by Duncan under the name John See. Duncan looked on the experience as an experiment and an attempt to stretch the stereotypical boundaries of adult film. For Kuki, which may not have recouped their investment in the videos, it was good publicity. Reviews were mixed, those viewing them as art were positive but those looking at them strictly as hardcore porn were quite negative.