History Series / TheNakedDirector

* 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.

* 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.

* TheGlassesGottaGo: Toru does this with the woman interviewing him in the second-season premiere, when he argues, a little too forcefully, that she should perform in one of his adult videos.
* 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.

* 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.

* {{Pixellation}}: In posters and advertising for the series in Japan, parts of the title are covered up by pixelation. This is a reference to the Japanese practice, even in hardcore porn, of using pixelation to obscure actors' genitalia.
** 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 {{Dirty Cop}}s.

** Later, a yakuza named Fujiwara becomes Toru's partner in the adult video business. And at the end of the first season, Toru's old partner Toshi has joined the yakuza and is running Furuya's underground uncensored porn business. This becomes a running plot line in season 2, as Toshi's time as a yakuza mook does not go well.

** Later, a yakuza named Fujiwara becomes Toru's partner in the adult video business. And at the end of the first season, Toru's old partner Toshi has joined the yakuza and is running Fujiwara's underground uncensored porn business.

* BriefsBoasting: Toru gives interviews wearing nothing but tighty-whitey briefs.

** Toru brings a ''shopping cart'' full of five hundred million yen when buying the satellite transmission rights of the weird cult.

* BasedOnATrueStory: These exact words start the first episode.

* UsefulNotes/JapaneseChristian: Kaoru is from a Catholic family and defies her mother's wishes by becoming a porn star under Toru.

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, and a huge star in porn under the name Kaoru Kuroki.

* UsefulNotes/JapaneseChristian: Megumi is from a Catholic family and defies her mother's wishes by becoming a porn star under Toru.

* {{Fanservice}}: Naturally given the premise, there is plenty of nude scenes involving Toru and other characters. Sometimes this becomes FanDisservice, when it's not outright titillation or outright uncomfortable to watch.

* 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". Later he busts Ikezawa for distributing uncensored porn--but only because Takei has thrown in his lot with Furuya of the yakuza.

** 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.

* UsefulNotes/JapaneseChristian: Megumi is from a Catholic family and defies her parents' wishes by becoming a porn star.

* 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.

* {{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.

* 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".

** Later, a yakuza named Fujiwara becomes Toru's partner in the adult video business.

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.