With the exception of some high-profile series on Netflix, which almost seem to be trying to attract viewers precisely because they are explicit, most Japanese TV dramas have pretty tame sex scenes.
Some of the late-night ones, especially if they are shown on a streamer like Abema, can be pretty erotic, but rarely do not show actual nudity. They tease and titillate, then pull back from putting breasts on screen.
The TV drama Kusuburi Onna to Sundome Onna on TV Tokyo is a case in point, featuring a sex scene between a married couple that doesn’t show any nudity.
But it caught our interest because it doesn’t play out like a regular sex scene at all.
We all know that things in the bedroom can become stale in a long-term relationship. This couple resorts to some interesting tactics to keep things exciting, at least for the male partner.
The husband has sex with her wife (played by Naomi Nishida, who remains clothed throughout) while wearing virtual reality googles and watching VR porn. (Weirdly, and incredibly unrealistically, we are supposed to believe that the content he is watching is also non-nude porn.)
We are curious to know if a woman would actually ever agree to this and what it must feel like to have a man so hampered by cumbersome apparatus over his head having sex with you. We’re all guilty of thinking of other people during sex, but this is taking that to a whole other level!
As weird as the scene looks, and probably as weird as it feels, might it be a way to save Japanese marriages from sexlessness? Not that it will be much fun for the woman, we expect.
Incidentally, the series is produced by and co-stars Megumi, the former gravure idol who, now in her forties, has aged into a fine wine (and back on the market after divorcing her rock star husband over his infidelity).
Perhaps she based the marital situation depicted in the series on some of her own experiences?
