A scene from the second season of “The Naked Director” currently streaming on Netflix (Provided by Netflix)
After its portrayal of a Japanese porn director caused a stir worldwide in 2019, “The Naked Director” has returned for a second season that is currently streaming on Netflix.
It took two years to finish production of Season 2, but chief director Masaharu Take seems satisfied with the work.
“I could finally express the true nature of ‘The Naked Director,’” he said.
The new eight-episode series revolves around Toru Muranishi as he falls from glory after rising to stardom in the pornography industry.
Takayuki Yamada again stars as the adult video director, while Shinnosuke Mitsushima, Tetsuji Tamayama and other main cast members reprise the roles of their eccentric characters.
Jul 1, 2021
Toru Muranishi is back: The adult-video auteur with the outsized underpants and monstrous ego on a mission to liberate the world from prudishness.
Netflix’s “The Naked Director,” a fictionalized biopic of Japan’s most outrageous porn provocateur, caused a minor sensation with local audiences when it debuted in 2019. Scabrous and outrageously explicit, the show also boasted production values that left most homegrown network TV offerings looking amateurish in comparison.
It was the first time the streaming giant’s original Japanese content had felt like a genuine alternative, yet it proved to be a cheap thrill. Once the initial frisson had worn off, “The Naked Director” played mostly like an inferior retread of earlier paeans to the American porn industry. It was “Boogie Nights” without the pathos, “The People vs. Larry Flynt” without the higher sense of purpose, and enough of a hit for Netflix to commission a second season.
Jul 1, 2021
Toru Muranishi is back: The adult-video auteur with the outsized underpants and monstrous ego on a mission to liberate the world from prudishness.
Netflix’s “The Naked Director,” a fictionalized biopic of Japan’s most outrageous porn provocateur, caused a minor sensation with local audiences when it debuted in 2019. Scabrous and outrageously explicit, the show also boasted production values that left most homegrown network TV offerings looking amateurish in comparison.
It was the first time the streaming giant’s original Japanese content had felt like a genuine alternative, yet it proved to be a cheap thrill. Once the initial frisson had worn off, “The Naked Director” played mostly like an inferior retread of earlier paeans to the American porn industry. It was “Boogie Nights” without the pathos, “The People vs. Larry Flynt” without the higher sense of purpose, and enough of a hit for Netflix to commission a second season.
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