Media Station (company)

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Media Station
IndustryPornography
PredecessorCosmos Plan
Founded1981
Headquarters
Tokyo
,
Japan
ProductsPornographic films

Media Station (メディアステーション, Media Suteeshon), founded as Cosmos Plan (宇宙企画, Uchū Kikaku), was a Japanese adult video (AV) production company. In early 2011, they were integrated with the AV company KM Produce.

Company information[]

The company was founded under the name Cosmos Plan on October 13, 1981[1] making it, along with h.m.p (then known as Samm) and Tadashi Yoyogi's Athena Eizou, one of Japan's pioneering AV companies.[2][3] The studio's first video, Lesbian College Dorm Bathroom (女子大生ルポ・風呂場のレズ), starring Emi Nakamura, was released in December 1981. The video, directed by pink film director , who later made an early gay pink film Beautiful Mystery, was one of earliest of the modern style adult videos.[2] Soon afterward the studio also released one of the first S&M adult videos, Tanaka Tizuko First Time SM (田中千鶴子のＳＭ初体験).[4] In 1982, Michiko Shyness Notes (美智子の恥じらいノート) starring Michiko Miura broke new ground in AV with its documentary style, including an interview with the shy actress, a format still being used for debut videos of featured actresses.[2] The studio's success was assured with a series of popular "beautiful girl" (美少女, bishoujo) videos in the following years.[3][4] Among the early stars of the studio was Keiko Nakazawa who made her AV debut for Cosmos Plan in December 1985 with the video Confusion (とまどい, Tomadoi).[5] The studio added a new label, Bazooka, in August 1989.[6]

In 1990, as its business expanded into other areas, the company changed its name to Media Station but continued to produce videos under the Cosmos Plan label.[7] In the later 1990s a number of future AV Idols made their debuts with the company, including Madoka Ozawa in 1996,[8] Bunko Kanazawa and Sally Yoshino in 1997,[9][10] and Minori Aoi in 1999.[11] Kanazawa would go on to make more videos with the company than any other actress.[9]

By at least 1997, Cosmos Plan and a number of the other older AV companies including Alice Japan, Atlas21, Max-A and Big Morkal had gathered around Kuki Inc. to pool resources and use the X CITY website for sales and video on-demand, together forming the largest porn conglomerate in Japan at that time.[12][13] In late 2007, the company, with headquarters in Shibuya, Tokyo, had capital of 20 million yen (about $200,000) and reported sales for the fiscal year 2005 of 1.5 billion yen (about $15 million).[1] In earlier years sales figures had totalled 1.6 billion yen for fiscal year 2000[14] and 1.9 billion yen for 2002[15] and 2003.[16]

Media Station was affiliated with AV manufacturers KMP and Real Works,[17] and the Media Station website, home.uchu.co.jp, was operated by KMP.[18] In mid-2010 Media Station was releasing about 10 videos per month under its labels Cosmos Plan (with codes beginning with MDS) and Bazooka (with codes beginning MDB).[19]

However, by April 2011, the Media Station website announced that Cosmos Plan had been integrated into the KMP website[20] and from February 2011, the Cosmos and Bazooka labels were incorporated into KMP.[21]

Labels[]

In addition to the Cosmos Plan label, the company has also issued videos under the following label names:[22]

  • Bazooka
  • Bijin
  • Exert
  • Pix
  • Raiden
  • Stylish

Actresses[]

A number of prominent AV Idols have performed in Media Station videos:

Series[]

Media Station series include:[22]

  • Angel
  • Fallen Angel X (堕天使Ｘ)
  • Love Letter (ラブレター)
  • Nurse Club (ナース倶楽部)
  • Obscene MAX (猥褻ＭＡＸ)
  • Princess Butt (尻姫)
  • The Goddess of Soapland (ソープの女神さま)
  • Venus Style
  • Wet Diary (おしめり手帖)

Awards[]

Media Station was one of the companies associated with Kuki and the X City website which participated in the X City Adult Video Grand Prix Awards. At the 2001 X City Grand Prix Awards, the studio took the Best Video Title Award for Small Girls' Fuck (starring Sayaka Tsutsumi) on their Bazooka label.[23] At the 2002 awards, the Bazooka label again won the Best Video Title Award for their popular Fallen Angel X series.[24]

In 2004 the company took another award, the Best AV Title, at the 5th Takeshi Kitano Awards in 2004 for their video Faithful Pooch Saseko.[25]

Notes[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b "会社概要 (Company Information)" (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 2007-10-25. Retrieved 2010-05-06.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c Otsubo, Kemuta (February 20, 2009). アダルトビデオクロニクル　81’～85’/1 (in Japanese). All About. Archived from the original on May 5, 2009. Retrieved 2010-05-08.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b Otsubo, Kemuta (February 20, 2009). アダル���ビデオクロニクル　81’～85’/2 (in Japanese). All About. Archived from the original on June 16, 2009. Retrieved 2010-05-08.
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b 宇宙企画「田中千鶴子のＳＭ初体験」ＳＭビデオ第１号 (in Japanese). manbou0318.blog91.fc2.com. Retrieved 2010-05-10.
  5. ^ "1985" (in Japanese). AV 研究所 (AV Research Laboratory). Archived from the original on June 25, 2007. Retrieved 2007-07-21.
  6. ^ "1989" (in Japanese). AV 研究所 (AV Research Laboratory). Archived from the original on February 9, 2009. Retrieved 2010-06-18.
  7. ^ Otsubo, Kemuta (August 1, 2009). アダルトビデオクロニクル　91’～95’/2 (in Japanese). All About. Archived from the original on August 14, 2009. Retrieved 2010-05-08.
  8. ^ "1996" (in Japanese). AV 研究所 (AV Research Laboratory). Archived from the original on 2010-02-04. Retrieved 2007-07-21.
  9. ^ Jump up to: a b "1997" (in Japanese). AV 研究所 (AV Research Laboratory). Archived from the original on July 7, 2007. Retrieved 2007-07-21.
  10. ^ "Younger Than Me". AV Idol Directory. Retrieved 2010-07-28.
  11. ^ "1999". AV 研究所 (AV Research Laboratory) (in Japanese). Archived from the original on March 18, 2007. Retrieved 2007-07-05.
  12. ^ "-THE CITY Participants-". Archived from the original on 1997-01-08. Retrieved 2010-05-10.
  13. ^ Banana Boy. "JAV Production Companies". Japan AV. Archived from the original on 2010-01-07. Retrieved 2009-03-27.
  14. ^ "会社概要 (Company Information)" (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 2002-02-10. Retrieved 2010-05-11.
  15. ^ "会社概要 (Company Information)" (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 2004-06-12. Retrieved 2010-05-11.
  16. ^ "会社概要 (Company Information)" (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 2006-01-14. Retrieved 2010-05-11.
  17. ^ "関連メーカー (Affiliated Manufacturers)" (in Japanese). home.uchu.co.jp. Archived from the original on 2010-05-10. Retrieved 2010-05-10.
  18. ^ "会社概要 (Cosmos Plan - Company Information)" (in Japanese). home.uchu.co.jp. Archived from the original on 2010-05-01. Retrieved 2010-04-03.
  19. ^ "新作セルDVD情報" (in Japanese). home.uchu.co.jp. Archived from the original on 2010-05-10. Retrieved 2010-05-10.
  20. ^ "Cosmos" (in Japanese). home.uchu.co.jp. Archived from the original on 2011-04-30. Retrieved 2011-11-20.
  21. ^ 2011年2月分 (in Japanese). km-produce.com. Archived from the original on 2011-11-13. Retrieved 2011-11-20.
  22. ^ Jump up to: a b "Media Station". Urabon Navigator. Retrieved 2010-05-06.
  23. ^ "Adult Video Grandprix 2001". X City. Retrieved 2010-01-25.
  24. ^ "A.V.G.P. Adult Video Grand Prix 2002" (in Japanese). X City. Retrieved 2011-01-25.
  25. ^ "東京スポーツ映画大賞 過去の受賞者、作品一覧 (Tokyo Sports Film Awards - Winners)" (in Japanese). Tokyo Sports. Archived from the original on 2007-02-13. Retrieved 2010-07-28.

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