We like a good comeback story here at Tokyo and especially love to see ladies we haven’t seen in a while (hello, Aya Ueto!).
Rina Aizawa has focused on her acting in recent years, including plenty of roles in TV dramas — including some that involve (non-nude) sex scenes.
And so it is a delight to hear that she will release her first photo book in 12 years. She is publicizing her return with a shoot in the current issue of Weekly Playboy.
To be accurate, she hasn’t been away from gravure all these years. She did a Weekly Playboy cover shoot in summer 2022, for instance, but this is her first gravure photo book in more than a decade and the signs indicate that the producers have pulled out all the stops for it.
The photo book, which was shot by ND Chow (a high-profile name in the industry also responsible for DJ Soda’s debut photo book) over several days on location in Vietnam in January, promises to unveil her “shocking nude body,” according to initial reports. We are used to the hyperbole of gravure magazines, so we’re wait to see if the shoot is actually nude or not.
But preview pics do suggest at least semi-nudity and the book is an entry in the Gekkan series, which is famous for its nude shoots (see the recent examples featuring Shizuku Ishibashi and singer KOM_I).
Rina Aizawa made her gravure debut at 16 and is now aged 32.
