Kaoru Toyoda
| Kaoru Toyoda | |
|---|---|
| Born |
November 10, 1952 Japan |
| Occupation | Film director |
| Years active | 1985– |
Kaoru Toyoda (豊田薫 Toyoda Kaoru) is a Japanese adult video (AV) director and the founder of two AV studios. With a career dating back to 1985, he is one of the pioneers of the Japanese adult video industry.
Toyoda was born on November 10, 1952. He made his adult video directorial debut with the Kuki company in May 1985 with the video Bunny Girl (少女うさぎ Shōjo Usagi) starring Midori Takano (高野みどり). By the mid-1980s he was working for Samm (later to become h.m.p.), where he is credited along with others for changing the direction of that company from its early emphasis on S&M videos. One of the videos he directed for h.m.p. was the 1990 Kozenwaisetsu 7 starring early AV Idol Yumika Hayashi. He also directed videos for the Alice Japan studio in the 1990s.
Frustrated by the close censorship of Japanese adult videos under the Nihon Ethics of Video Association (NEVA), also known as "Viderin", the voluntary ethics group which regulated most of the AV companies in the 1980s and 1990s, Toyoda started up his own company using the label "King of Realism" (リア王 Ria Ō) in 1996. The company, Wild Side (ワイルドサイド Wairudo Saido), located in Tokyo's Shibuya ward, was founded in April 1996 and "King of Realism" (the Japanese name also means "King Lear") began issuing videos in August 1996. In the years following other labels were also created including "Macbeth" (マクベス Makubesu) in September 1997, "Ran" (乱 Ran) in July 1998, "Jun" (純 Jun) and "GOLD" in April 2000, "Cobra" (コブラ Kobura) in November 2000, "D's" in January 2001 and "SILVIA" in October 2002.
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