Kaoru Toyoda is a Japanese adult video director and the founder of two AV studios. With a career dating back to 1985, he is one of the pioneers of the Japanese adult video industry.
Life and career
Toyoda was born on November 10, 1952. He made his adult video directorial debut with the Kuki company in May 1985 with the video Bunny Girl starring Midori Takano. By the mid-1980s he was working for Samm, where he is credited along with others for changing the direction of that company from its early emphasis on S&M videos. One of the videos he directed for h.m.p. was the 1990 Kozenwaisetsu 7 starring early AV IdolYumika Hayashi. He also directed videos for the Alice Japan studio in the 1990s.
Frustrated by the close censorship of Japanese adult videos under the Nihon Ethics of Video Association, also known as "Viderin", the voluntary ethics group which regulated most of the AV companies in the 1980s and 1990s, Toyoda started up his own company using the label "King of Realism" in 1996. The company, Wild Side, located in Tokyo's Shibuya ward, was founded in April 1996 and "King of Realism" began issuing videos in August 1996. In the years following other labels were also created including "Macbeth" in September 1997, "Ran" in July 1998, "Jun" and "GOLD" in April 2000, "Cobra" in November 2000, "D's" in January 2001 and "SILVIA" in October 2002. The company issued about a dozen new videos per month including installments in such popular series as "Eromesu", "Royal Anal Kingdom" and the scatology series "Exodus Gold". The major Japanese AV retailer DMM listed over 600 DVD titles and more than 500 VHS titles for Wild Side in mid-2010. Throughout its history, Wild Side and the "King of Realism" label were associated with videos portraying scatology, anal sex, and in its later years pregnant sex. On November 12, 2004, Wild Side released the video Beautiful Nine Month Pregnant Woman Sex - Childbirth, directed by Toyoda and starring Natsuki Hatayama . The first part of the video shows the pregnant actress having sex with various actors but the second part depicts a complete sequence of her giving birth at home. Other actresses who appeared in Toyoda-directed videos for Wild Side include Rinako Hirasawa, Chihiro Hara and Minami Aoyama.
Opera
After 20 years as an AV director, 10 years after starting the "King of Realism" label, and a false colon cancer scare, Toyoda closed Wild Side and started a new adult video company, Opera, in October 2005. In September 2011, the DVD distributor DMM listed 327 titles for Opera on its website. Toyoda is the chief director at Opera and had directed some 150 videos for the studio by that same date. For the 2009 AV Grand Prix competition, the Opera entry was the scatology video First Crap, directed by Toyoda and starring Chika Shinozaki.
