In the almost 100-year-old annals of Japanese beauty contests, there’s never been an incident like the one rocking the pageant world right now, with newly crowned Miss International Japan Hisako Shirata exposed for having performed nude sex scenes for the camera, according to Shukan Shincho (11/9).
Though Japan has over 1,000 established beauty contests (ranging from Miss Glacier in the north to Miss Hibiscus in the south) in a history dating back to 1908, Miss International is regarded as one of the Big Three, together with Miss Japan and Miss Universe Japan, the weekly says.
But when 24-year-old, 170-centimeter-tall model Shirata was selected as Miss Japan late last month, it sent the relatively unknown’s name recognition soaring and opened a real can of worms. Specifically, the Miss International victory put Shirata’s stint as a thespian in the spotlight.
“Three years ago, Shirata appeared in an R-rated movie called ‘Kanzen Naru Kaiiku Himitsu no Chikashitsu (The Perfect Pet: Secret Basement).’ As the title perhaps suggests, she played the role of a high school girl abducted and kept prisoner by a man played by Taro Yamamoto. It was her first movie and was pretty steamy, getting her nude and performing sex and bondage scenes,” a reporter on the entertainment beat tells Shukan Shincho.
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