The Levels of JAV Stardom (feat: Ichika Matsumoto) Part 1
Fuck for Fame
The JAV industry is a multi billion dollar industry that is mostly self contained to the land of Japan as they (though to be honest, it could be larger if they just open it up but I digress). Once a woman enters the JAV industry as an on camera talent, she takes it upon herself to have a relationship with the generalpublic. The first contact between her and someone she doesn't know through whichever media she exposes herself to is a brush with the ever elusive Fame, the topic of this article. But alas, Fame is a fickle master. While I try to be a positive voice in this adult blog space and while I believe that every woman in JAV is beautiful in her own way, Fame doesn't work that way and it happens to create this stratified system of who deserves certain levels of fame vs who doesn't. That’s just the way it goes, but it is particularly interesting in JAV because of how sexuality intermingles with media, society and the person. Even if I don’t really understand Japanese, all it takes is a keen eye and an observant mind to find mostly trivial but still interesting happenings at this intersection.
So for this article, I’ve decided to look into Ichika Matsumoto. Aside from being my favorite JAV actress in this generation, she's the perfect case study for this article since she’s had one of the most interesting careers in JAV. She basically ran through all the levels of fame in JAV through her highly prolific career, with her outputs being upgraded as she gained fame over the years. Now she’s at a high point, and it's about time I featured her!
Let’s look at some of her films at different points of Ichika’s career!
Ichika as an Unknown
SDAB-108: I'm Gonna Be This Cute! Ichika Matsumoto SOD Exclusive AV Debut!
Release Date: September 26, 2019
Runtime: 2 hours 47 mins
Studio: SOD Create
Director: Kaoru
When Ichika debuted back in 2019, she wasn’t quite the sex demon in heat she will eventually be known for. But rather, she was yet another one of those cutesy 19 year olds entering JAV. Japan actually has a distinctly high number of women entering porn, considering how big the JAV industry actually is. So she was a simple drop in a big lake. We can see in her first debut movies that, due to her looks, she was automatically classified as a school girl cutesy type. While it was obvious that she was camera shy at first, it..didn’t seem like she was that inexperienced because of how her body language communicated that she was enjoying herself thoroughly...
AGMX-045: Overwhelming Blowjobs - A Combination Of Skillful Licking, Sucking, And Stroking Techniques
Starring: Ichika Matsumoto, AIKA, Sena Ninoyama, Rian Isaki, Momo Akiba, et. al
Release Date: September 26, 2019
Runtime: 2 hours 47 mins
Studio: SOD Create
Director: Kaoru
Ichika doesn’t really last long in the Unknown status, but a lot of the unknown JAV stars usually end up being part of these themed JAV multi-actress compilations where a bigger star(in this case, AIKA) is featured as a marquee name to help promote the other lesser known actresses in the movie. In here, though Ichika is naturally cute and a decent performer at this time, she looks less polished with her makeup and the dull lighting (hinting at cheap production value). A lot of actresses end up in these sorts of compilations either at the beginning of their careers or at the tail end…
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Ichika as a Cult Icon
ATID-471: The Barely Legal Girl Who Goes Crazy For A Big Black Penis. Ichika Matsumoto.
Release Date: August 7, 2021
Runtime: 1 hour 55 mins
Studio: Attackers
Director: Eitaro Hagae
Cult status is a peek into the another side of fame: infamy. This typically happens when a JAV actress becomes known for being naughtier than usual. While JAV in general lives on the infamous side of fame due to its non-wholesome, explicit nature, some actresses prefer to have vanilla branding and participate in lighter movies allows for a inner spectrum of both fame and infamy (within the world of JAV at least). The more infamous JAV actresses are known for being out there in terms of the level of hardcore they are willing to put up with by participating in certain fetishes or types of JAV that not many actresses are capable of. In this movie, Ichika gets blacked. She actually gets blacked twice in her career, where most who do try it just do it once. Great stuff.
WAAA-168: A Creampie-Addicted Cum Bucket Girl Who Has Lines Of Men Waiting To Fuck Her 20 Consecutive Cum Shots Of Follow-Up Ejaculation From Rich And Thick Dirty Ol Men In A Large Orgies Fuck Fest Ichika Matsumoto
Release Date: May 3, 2022
Runtime: 2 hours 00 mins
Studio: Wanz Factory
And the other aspect that Ichika quickly became a cult icon from her debut is simply because of how insatiable she is. After her brief stint of simple vanilla JAV from her debut, she quickly ramped up production of harder kinds of movies. Ichika is a great performer from all aspects: from sensual sexual expression, to actually being a believable actress in a role, and her natural cutesy charisma.. But since this is porn we’re talking about, Ichika’s amazing sexuality is what I would attribute to her stratospheric rise to fame. In this movie from one of my favorite series, Ichika gets gangbanged, and it is so joyous how much she loves it. That’s why everyone seems to love her even if she doesn’t have the typical JAV star face and body…
Catch the next part of this article to follow the rise of Ichika! See you there! - Vez
BTW We have a movie with Ichika Matsumoto released at the time when she was still an unknown JAV actress, at around the time of her debut. If you ever want to watch a fully human subbed Ichika Matsumoto movie, you can check it out here at ZENRA. Watching any of ZENRA’s movies supports the site and the blog. :)
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Fuck for Fame
The JAV industry is a multi billion dollar industry that is mostly self contained to the land of Japan as they (though to be honest, it could be larger if they just open it up but I digress). Once a woman enters the JAV industry as an on camera talent, she takes it upon herself to have a relationship with the generalpublic. The first contact between her and someone she doesn't know through whichever media she exposes herself to is a brush with the ever elusive Fame, the topic of this article. But alas, Fame is a fickle master. While I try to be a positive voice in this adult blog space and while I believe that every woman in JAV is beautiful in her own way, Fame doesn't work that way and it happens to create this stratified system of who deserves certain levels of fame vs who doesn't. That’s just the way it goes, but it is particularly interesting in JAV because of how sexuality intermingles with media, society and the person. Even if I don’t really understand Japanese, all it takes is a keen eye and an observant mind to find mostly trivial but still interesting happenings at this intersection.
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