Kuki Inc.
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| Industry | Pornography |
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| Founded | 1977 |
| Founder | Nakagawa Noriaki |
| Headquarters | Ebisu Minami, Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan |
| Products | Pornographic films |
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Number of employees
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about 100 |
| Website | Kuki |
Kuki Inc. (株式会社九鬼 Kabushiki gaisha Kuki?) is a Japanese adult video (AV) company which has its headquarters in Ebisu Minami in the Shibuya ward of Tokyo. The company is involved in the production and distribution of videos, satellite and cable TV, and a large internet site, X CITY.
The corporation was founded by Nakagawa Noriaki (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 AV, Keshi Wasure Bideo (消し忘れビデオ?), in 1983. Among their early stars was Sakura Sena, who made her AV 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.
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