History Series / TheNakedDirector

* 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.
** 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.

* 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.

* DidNotGetTheGirl: Poor Mitamura. In 2.6 he gives Naoko her thirty million yen back pay from his own pocket, makes his AnguishedDeclarationOfLove, and they have sex. In the series finale she comes back and gives him back his money...and she is followed by a respectable-looking fellow in a suit. She tells him that she's marrying the guy in the suit, and then leaves.

* 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.

* 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.

** 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.

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

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.

* AlohaHawaii: In episode 1.6 the gang flies to Hawaii to do a porn shoot with an American cast. It's Toru's dream, but it ends in disaster as he's arrested by the FBI and chucked in prison.

* BriefsBoasting: Toru gives interviews wearing nothing but “tighty-whitey” briefs.
** Right at the end of the last episode of the series he reveals that he actually wears two pairs of briefs when doing his Briefs Boasting, "for decency's sake."

* 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 Toshi and starts selling cuckold porn videos.

* HappyFlashback: When Kawada delivers to Toru in the last episode the devastating news of Toshi's death, there's a quick HappyFlashback montage of the good times that Toru and Toshi had together building the business.

** Right at the end of the last episode of the series he reveals that he actually wears two pairs of briefs when doing his BriefsBoasting, "for decency's sake."

* KarmaHoudini: Several of the antagonists get their comeuppance in the last episode: Furuya the gangster is murdered, his [[TheDragon dragon]] Ogiwara is arrested, and Takei the DirtyCop is also arrested on corruption charges. But Komu and Ms. Oba, who stole an enormous sum of money from Toru, apparently escape.

!!Tropes:

** The silly ImagineSpot in episode 2.1, where Toru has a vision of his porn studio as a satellite in space, gets a call-back near the end of the season when Toru imagines the satellite plummeting out of orbit as his career collapses.

* DidNotGetTheGirl: Poor Mitamura. In 2.6 he gives her the thirty million yen back pay from his own pocket, makes his AnguishedDeclarationOfLove, and they have sex. In the series finale she comes back and gives him back his money...and she is followed by a respectable-looking fellow in a suit. She tells him that she's marrying the guy in the suit, and then leaves.
* DirtyCop: 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.

** In the second season, while everyone else is carried away by Toru's grand dream of a satellite television porn network, Kawada again opposes Toru, saying that it's foolish and risky and they should concentrate instead on just making good porn. Again Kawada is correct, as Toru overextends himself, starts a satellite channel that is not even close to being financially viable (costs of the network far exceed subscriber revenue), and ends up bankrupting the family.

* 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.

* 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 sex with her husband are what lead him into making porn videos. In episode 1.4 he makes a porn movie out of that very incident.

* KnowWhenToFoldEm: AnAesop that Umino delivers to Toru in episode 2.6, as Toru is frantically scurrying around trying to save his porn company and his satellite channel. Umino tells about how he just lost thirty billion yen on a failed satellite launch. He says if he hadn't taken a "challenge" like Toru is always yammering about, he would still have the thirty million yen. Then he tells Toru that he is quitting the company, and he advises that Toru give up as well and sell his satellite rights.