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* GlassesPull: Toru does this in episode 1.6 when he first sees Allison Mandy, the ravishing American blonde who is supposed to star in his ambitious spy porn movie.
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** In episode 1.3 Mitamura, one of the new young hires, says he's joined the company because he wants to be the next Creator/AkiraKurosawa. He is startled to learn that the fledgeling film studio actually produces porn.
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** In episode 1.3 Mitamura, one of the new young hires, says he's joined the company because he wants to be the next Creator/AkiraKurosawa. He is startled to learn that the fledgeling film studio actually produces porn. There's another shout-out to Kurosawa in episode 1.6 when Jimmy, the gang's fixer in Hawaii, puts a hat and sunglasses on Toru and says he looks just like Kurosawa.
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* HitMeDammit: Megumi specifically asks Toru to choke her in episode 1.5, when they're doing her first sex scene. He gamely complies.
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* StageName: InUniverse in episode 1.5, where Toru comes up with the stage name "Kaoru Kuroki" for Megumi, after she tells him that her favorite color is ''kuro'' (black).
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A second plot thread follows Megumi, a young lady with a raging libido who chafes against the constraints of living with an ultra-Catholic conservative mom. Eventually she becomes one of Toru's performers.
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* RoundTableShot: Seen early in episode 1.5 as Toru and his crew sit around a circular table, eating, and muse one at a time about their problems with making videos after Ikezawa's puppet commission comes down on them.
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** This is a plot point in episode 1.2, when a Japanese vice cop comes by one of Toru's porn shops, and disputes whether or not the genitalia of the models in his magazines are pixelated enough. It becomes an even bigger plot point later, when Toru decides to start producing ''ura-bon'', or uncensored porn magazines, which puts him and Toshi at risk of arrest.
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** This is a plot point in episode 1.2, when a Japanese vice cop comes by one of Toru's porn shops, and disputes whether or not the genitalia of the models in his magazines are pixelated enough. It becomes an even bigger plot point later, when Toru decides to start producing ''ura-bon'', or uncensored porn magazines, which puts him and Toshi at risk of arrest. As Toru's career goes on he continues to push boundaries, producing uncensored porn videos even as his actresses are arrested by {{Corrupt Cop}}s.
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* SecretOtherFamily: Megumi discovers some mysterious photos in an album in episode 1.4 and then confronts her mother in episode 1.5 about how the two of them live in relative comfort despite having a DisappearedDad. It turns out that Megumi's strictly Catholic, religious fundamentalist mom was TheMistress of a married businessman, and she and Megumi are the SecretOtherFamily.
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* FootsieUnderTheTable: Another student's boyfriend does this with Megumi when they are all at a cafeteria table together in episode 1.4. She establishes dominance by doing the same to him.
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* CallBack: After Toru gets out of jail in episode 1.3 he winds up having sex with a lonely widow whose husband used to work for National Rail. Her home movies of her husband are what lead him into making porn videos. In episode 1.4 he makes a porn movie out of that very incident.
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* CorruptCop: Episode 1.3 reveals that Takei the cop is taking payoffs from Ikezawa to go after Toru. Takei even mentions the possibility of coming after Toru on "fake charges".
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** In episode 1.4 a porn video store clerk is watching the climax of ''Film/TheTerminator'' while at work.
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* EveryCarIsAPinto: Lampshaded InUniverse in episode 1.3, when Toru's first live-action porn shoot ends with a tour bus bursting into flame. A parked tour bus.
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* SplitScreen: Episode 1.3 ends with a split-screen sequence, in which Chairman Izekawa's fancy dinner with his bevy of porn stars is contrasted with the humbler pig's feet dinner that Toru's crew has after their first production.
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* ShoutOut: In the first episode Toru's coworker Mr. Ono is saddened to read news of the death of Creator/AlfredHitchcock.
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* ShoutOut: ShoutOut:
** In the first episode Toru's coworker Mr. Ono is saddened to read news of the death ofCreator/AlfredHitchcock.Creator/AlfredHitchcock.
** In episode 1.3 Mitamura, one of the new young hires, says he's joined the company because he wants to be the next Creator/AkiraKurosawa. He is startled to learn that the fledgeling film studio actually produces porn.
** In the first episode Toru's coworker Mr. Ono is saddened to read news of the death of
** In episode 1.3 Mitamura, one of the new young hires, says he's joined the company because he wants to be the next Creator/AkiraKurosawa. He is startled to learn that the fledgeling film studio actually produces porn.
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* RagingStiffie: In episode 1.4, the perpetually horny Megumi, in an art class drawing a male model, spreads her legs for him and intentionally provokes this.
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* {{Yakuza}}: In the first episode Toru visits a mansion attempting to sell encyclopedias, only to find that it's the home of a derange, tattoo-covered yakuza gangster. Toru wets himself with fear but still makes the sale.
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* {{Yakuza}}: {{Yakuza}}:
** In the first episode Toru visits a mansion attempting to sell encyclopedias, only to find that it's the home of a derange, tattoo-covered yakuza gangster. Toru wets himself with fear but still makes thesale.sale.
** Later, a yakuza named Fujiwara becomes Toru's partner in the adult video business.
** In the first episode Toru visits a mansion attempting to sell encyclopedias, only to find that it's the home of a derange, tattoo-covered yakuza gangster. Toru wets himself with fear but still makes the
** Later, a yakuza named Fujiwara becomes Toru's partner in the adult video business.
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* SeasonalBaggage: A single shot of the leaves on a tree going from green to brown, followed by snow falling, is used to demonstrate the time Toru spends in jail in episode 1.3 for selling uncensored porn magazines.
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* BriefcaseFullOfMoney: Ikezawa brings two of these in episode 1.2, when offering to buy Toru's porn business for 300 million yen while at the same time threatening to meet him again "in an unpleasant manner" if Toru doesn't sell. Toru blows him off.
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* BriefcaseFullOfMoney: BriefcaseFullOfMoney:
** Ikezawa brings two of these in episode 1.2, when offering to buy Toru's porn business for 300 million yen while at the same time threatening to meet him again "in an unpleasant manner" if Toru doesn't sell. Toru blows himoff.off.
** In episode 1.3 the people behind the VHS format bring one to Izekawa, because they believe in TheRuleOfFirstAdopters and they want his help in beating Betamax.
** Ikezawa brings two of these in episode 1.2, when offering to buy Toru's porn business for 300 million yen while at the same time threatening to meet him again "in an unpleasant manner" if Toru doesn't sell. Toru blows him
** In episode 1.3 the people behind the VHS format bring one to Izekawa, because they believe in TheRuleOfFirstAdopters and they want his help in beating Betamax.
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* TheRuleOfFirstAdopters: A plot point in episode 3. The folks who make VHS tapes, locked in a fight to death with the folks who make Betamax tapes in the early 1980s, go to Ikezawa the pornographer and bribe him with a BriefcaseFullOfMoney to publish in their format. It works.
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* WantedPoster: When Toru and Toshi make an ill-advised return to Sapporo in episode 1.3, Toshi complains about their pictures on the wanted posters, before he rips them down. Unfortunately their meeting is a trap and they are arrested.
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* ADateWithRosiePalms: In the first episode Toru is introduced masturbating to a ''Hustler'' centerfold in a public restroom, ''Hustler'' apparently being a magazine one could find lying around in restaurant bathroom stalls in 1980 Tokyo.
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* ADateWithRosiePalms: ADateWithRosiePalms:
** In the first episode Toru is introduced masturbating to a ''Hustler'' centerfold in a public restroom, ''Hustler'' apparently being a magazine one could find lying around in restaurant bathroom stalls in 1980Tokyo.Tokyo.
** Many times after, this being a series about the Japanese porn industry. A relatively uncommon female example when Megumi masturbates in the shower in episode 1.2.
** In the first episode Toru is introduced masturbating to a ''Hustler'' centerfold in a public restroom, ''Hustler'' apparently being a magazine one could find lying around in restaurant bathroom stalls in 1980
** Many times after, this being a series about the Japanese porn industry. A relatively uncommon female example when Megumi masturbates in the shower in episode 1.2.
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* ShowerScene: Megumi masturbates in the shower in episode 1.2. Her severely religious mother catches her and makes her wash her hands again.
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I can't change it because I'd be guilty of an Edit War, but I believe first come, first serve with American v. Commonwealth spellings should have meant that the word was left as "underwear"
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** This is a plot point in episode 1.2, when a Japanese vice cop comes by one of Toru's porn shops, and disputes whether or not the genitalia of the models in his magazines are pixelated enough. It becomes an even bigger plot point later, when Toru decides to start producing ''ura-bon'', or uncensored porn magazines, which puts him and Toshi at risk of arrest.
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* BriefsBoasting: Toru gives interviews wearing nothing but tighty-whiteys.
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* BriefsBoasting: Toru gives interviews wearing nothing but tighty-whiteys.tighty-whitey briefs.
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* HowWeGotHere: The opening scene is a montage showing Toru as a porn star and filmmaker--filming scenes, showing up on Japanese TV in nothing but his underwear and cheerfully saying "People have seen my asshole!"--intercut with scenes of Kaoru Kuroki giving sex positivity interviews where she says there's nothing wrong with porn. Then the series cuts back to 1980 to tell Toru's story.
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* HowWeGotHere: The opening scene is a montage showing Toru as a porn star and filmmaker--filming scenes, showing up on Japanese TV in nothing but his underwear underpants and cheerfully saying "People have seen my asshole!"--intercut with scenes of Kaoru Kuroki giving sex positivity interviews where she says there's nothing wrong with porn. Then the series cuts back to 1980 to tell Toru's story.
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It's a BasedOnATrueStory tale of Japanese pornographer Toru Muranishi. As the story opens, Toru is a salesman of English-language encyclopedias in 1980 Tokyo. Toru's life isn't going all that great. He can't get it up for sex with his wife at home, and at work, his boss threatens to fire him due to lackluster sales.
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It's a BasedOnATrueStory tale of Japanese pornographer Toru Muranishi. As the story opens, Toru is a salesman of English-language encyclopedias in 1980 Tokyo. Toru's life isn't Sapporo. Things aren't going all that great.great for him. He can't get it up for sex with his wife at home, and at work, his boss threatens to fire him due to lackluster sales.
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* BriefcaseFullOfMoney: Ikezawa brings two of these in episode 1.2, when offering to buy Toru's porn business for 300 million yen while at the same time threatening to meet him again "in an unpleasant manner" if Toru doesn't sell. Toru blows him off.
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* TheissTitillationTheory: InUniverse and DiscussedTrope, in episode 1.2 when Ikezawa says that this is the real reason for {{Pixellation}} in Japanese porn.
-->'''Ikezawa''': It's precisely because it's hidden that you want to see more, right?
-->'''Ikezawa''': It's precisely because it's hidden that you want to see more, right?
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His life is changed forever when he comes home early from work one day and finds his wife having sex with another man. And just to make things worse, she tells him that he has ''never'' given her an orgasm. His marriage is over. Reeling from this, Toru goes out drinking in a seedy club and winds up talking to a seedy guy who markets adultery videos, hardcore porn in which faithless wives have sex with other men. Toru embarks on a whole new career as a porn star and porn producer.
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His life is changed forever when he comes home early from work one day and finds his wife having sex with another man. And just to make things worse, she tells him that he has ''never'' given her an orgasm. His marriage is over. Reeling from this, Toru goes out drinking in a seedy club and winds up talking to Toshi, a seedy guy who markets adultery videos, hardcore porn in which faithless wives have sex with other men. Toru embarks on a whole new career as a porn star and porn producer.
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* EmasculatedCuckold: Or what the Japanese call {{Netorare}}. Toru comes home to find his wife having sex with another man. Just to stick the knife in, she tells him that he has never, not even once, given her an orgasm. Later he goes out to a bar and chats up a porno guy who tells him that {{Netorare}}, and specifically cheating wives having sex with other men, is a popular genre in Japanese porn. Toru immediately goes into partnership with the man and starts selling cuckold porn videos.
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* EmasculatedCuckold: Or what the Japanese call {{Netorare}}. Toru comes home to find his wife having sex with another man. Just to stick the knife in, she tells him that he has never, not even once, given her an orgasm. Later he goes out to a bar and chats up Toshi, a porno guy who tells him that {{Netorare}}, and specifically cheating wives having sex with other men, is a popular genre in Japanese porn. Toru immediately goes into partnership with the man Toshi and starts selling cuckold porn videos.
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* SpitTake: Toru's partner does this in episode 1.2 when the ''bini-bon'' magazine dealer asks how many magazines he wants and Toru says "all of them".
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* SpitTake: Toru's partner Toshi does this in episode 1.2 when the ''bini-bon'' magazine dealer asks how many magazines he wants and Toru says "all of them".
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* SpitTake: Toru's partner does this in episode 1.2 when the ''bini-bon'' magazine dealer asks how many magazines he wants and Toru says "all of them".
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* LoanShark: In episode 1.2 Toru, trying to get a porn business going, borrows 500,000 yen from a loan shark who charges 10% interest every ten days.
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* NaiveNewcomer: Toru's status as a guy diving headfirst into the porn industry without knowing anything about it allows the show to tell him and the viewers a lot about Japanese porn, like what ''bini-bon'' magazines are (Japanese porn mags sold in plastic wrappers).
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* BriefsBoasting: Toru gives interviews wearing nothing but tighty-whiteys.
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* {{Pixellation}}: In posters and advertising for the series in Japan, parts of the title are covered up by pixellation. This is a reference to the Japanese practice, even in hardcore porn, of using pixellation to obscure actors' genitalia.
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* DrowningMySorrows: Toru goes out drinking after his marriage blows up and his wife leaves him. This is how he meets the guy selling the porn videos, which starts his own career in pornography.
* EmasculatedCuckold: Or what the Japanese call {{Netorare}}. Toru comes home to find his wife having sex with another man. Just to stick the knife in, she tells him that he has never, not even once, given her an orgasm. Later he goes out to a bar and chats up a porno guy who tells him that {{Netorare}}, and specifically cheating wives having sex with other men, is a popular genre in Japanese porn. Toru immediately goes into partnership with the man and starts selling cuckold porn videos.
* GrayRainOfDepression: It's pouring rain in the first episode when Toru's wife leaves with the kids, after he caught her cheating on him. This segues into a flashback, which shows it was pouring rain 30 years ago on the day when Toru's drunken father walked out of the house.
* HomeEarlySurprise: Toru comes home early from the office only to find his wife having loud, passionate sex with another man. His marriage ends immediately.
* EmasculatedCuckold: Or what the Japanese call {{Netorare}}. Toru comes home to find his wife having sex with another man. Just to stick the knife in, she tells him that he has never, not even once, given her an orgasm. Later he goes out to a bar and chats up a porno guy who tells him that {{Netorare}}, and specifically cheating wives having sex with other men, is a popular genre in Japanese porn. Toru immediately goes into partnership with the man and starts selling cuckold porn videos.
* GrayRainOfDepression: It's pouring rain in the first episode when Toru's wife leaves with the kids, after he caught her cheating on him. This segues into a flashback, which shows it was pouring rain 30 years ago on the day when Toru's drunken father walked out of the house.
* HomeEarlySurprise: Toru comes home early from the office only to find his wife having loud, passionate sex with another man. His marriage ends immediately.
* TheLoinsSleepTonight: In the first episode Toru tries to have sex with his wife only to finally say "I can't." She says "I thought tonight might be different," he having suddenly become a success at work. Apparently this is a long-term problem.
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* ShoutOut: In the first episode Toru's coworker Mr. Ono is saddened to read news of the death of Creator/AlfredHitchcock.
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* OffTheChart: Played for a gag in the first episode. Toru starts to become so successful selling encyclopedias, after getting sales tips from Mr. Ono, that the bar graph on the wall showing his sales extends up past the top of the chart, then up to the ceiling, and finally running along the ceiling for a while.
* ShoutOut: In the first episode Toru's coworker Mr. Ono is saddened to read news of the death ofCreator/AlfredHitchcock.Creator/AlfredHitchcock.
* {{Yakuza}}: In the first episode Toru visits a mansion attempting to sell encyclopedias, only to find that it's the home of a derange, tattoo-covered yakuza gangster. Toru wets himself with fear but still makes the sale.
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* {{Yakuza}}: In the first episode Toru visits a mansion attempting to sell encyclopedias, only to find that it's the home of a derange, tattoo-covered yakuza gangster. Toru wets himself with fear but still makes the sale.
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''The Naked Director'' is a Japanese television series.
It's a BasedOnATrueStory tale of Japanese pornographer Toru Muranishi. As the story opens, Toru is a salesman of English-language encyclopedias in 1980 Tokyo. Toru's life isn't going all that great. He can't get it up for sex with his wife at home, and at work, his boss threatens to fire him due to lackluster sales.
His life is changed forever when he comes home early from work one day and finds his wife having sex with another man. And just to make things worse, she tells him that he has ''never'' given her an orgasm. His marriage is over. Reeling from this, Toru goes out drinking in a seedy club and winds up talking to a seedy guy who markets adultery videos, hardcore porn in which faithless wives have sex with other men. Toru embarks on a whole new career as a porn star and porn producer.
A Creator/{{Netflix}} original series. The first eight-episode series ran in 2019 and a second series ran in 2021.
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* BasedOnATrueStory: These exact words start the first episode.
* BringMyBrownPants: Toru's door-to-door salesman visit in episode 1.1 brings him to the mansion of a deranged {{Yakuza}} who [[GolfClubbing threatens him with a golf club]]. This actually winds up helping him make the sale.
* ADateWithRosiePalms: In the first episode Toru is introduced masturbating to a ''Hustler'' centerfold in a public restroom, ''Hustler'' apparently being a magazine one could find lying around in restaurant bathroom stalls in 1980 Tokyo.
* HowWeGotHere: The opening scene is a montage showing Toru as a porn star and filmmaker--filming scenes, showing up on Japanese TV in nothing but his underwear and cheerfully saying "People have seen my asshole!"--intercut with scenes of Kaoru Kuroki giving sex positivity interviews where she says there's nothing wrong with porn. Then the series cuts back to 1980 to tell Toru's story.
* MonochromePast: There are flashbacks of Toru as a boy in the early 1950s, growing up in desperate poverty, with an alcoholic ShellShockedVeteran father. Those are shown in a sort of desaturated color scheme to make them stand out from the main story.
* ShoutOut: In the first episode Toru's coworker Mr. Ono is saddened to read news of the death of Creator/AlfredHitchcock.
It's a BasedOnATrueStory tale of Japanese pornographer Toru Muranishi. As the story opens, Toru is a salesman of English-language encyclopedias in 1980 Tokyo. Toru's life isn't going all that great. He can't get it up for sex with his wife at home, and at work, his boss threatens to fire him due to lackluster sales.
His life is changed forever when he comes home early from work one day and finds his wife having sex with another man. And just to make things worse, she tells him that he has ''never'' given her an orgasm. His marriage is over. Reeling from this, Toru goes out drinking in a seedy club and winds up talking to a seedy guy who markets adultery videos, hardcore porn in which faithless wives have sex with other men. Toru embarks on a whole new career as a porn star and porn producer.
A Creator/{{Netflix}} original series. The first eight-episode series ran in 2019 and a second series ran in 2021.
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* BasedOnATrueStory: These exact words start the first episode.
* BringMyBrownPants: Toru's door-to-door salesman visit in episode 1.1 brings him to the mansion of a deranged {{Yakuza}} who [[GolfClubbing threatens him with a golf club]]. This actually winds up helping him make the sale.
* ADateWithRosiePalms: In the first episode Toru is introduced masturbating to a ''Hustler'' centerfold in a public restroom, ''Hustler'' apparently being a magazine one could find lying around in restaurant bathroom stalls in 1980 Tokyo.
* HowWeGotHere: The opening scene is a montage showing Toru as a porn star and filmmaker--filming scenes, showing up on Japanese TV in nothing but his underwear and cheerfully saying "People have seen my asshole!"--intercut with scenes of Kaoru Kuroki giving sex positivity interviews where she says there's nothing wrong with porn. Then the series cuts back to 1980 to tell Toru's story.
* MonochromePast: There are flashbacks of Toru as a boy in the early 1950s, growing up in desperate poverty, with an alcoholic ShellShockedVeteran father. Those are shown in a sort of desaturated color scheme to make them stand out from the main story.
* ShoutOut: In the first episode Toru's coworker Mr. Ono is saddened to read news of the death of Creator/AlfredHitchcock.
