Madonna (studio)

Madonna is an AV studio located in Tokyo, Japan^[1] which is affiliated with the large AV conglomerate Hokuto Corporation which distributes its videos through the DMM website.^[2] The General Manager of the company is Katsuhisa Aoyagi (青柳勝久).^[1]

Madonna registered its website www.madonna-av.com in October 2003^[3] and released its first videos in December 2003.^[4] Their premier video, Man-Eating Mature Women - Semen Squeezing (JUK-001) starred Maki Tomoda, Aki Tomosaki and Mayumi Kusunoki.:^[5] The company specializes in movies in the "mature woman" (熟女, jukujo) or MILF pornography genre, sometimes with an incest theme.^[6] Such mature woman productions have been a growing trend in Japanese porn since the mid-1990s^[7] and were popularized in AV by director Goro Tameike at the end of the 1990s.^[8] In addition to Aki Tomosaki and Maki Tomoda, other mature actresses who appeared in early Madonna videos were Ayano Murasaki and Runa Akasaka.^[9][10] Eitaro Haga has been the company's chief director, with a listing of more than 150 videos for Madonna by late 2011.^[11][12]

Since their inception, the studio's original videos used production codes series of the type JUK-001 for VHS releases and JUKD-001 for DVD releases. Compilation videos were labeled in the series JUS-001 and JUSD-001. In December 2008, the original code was filled when video JUKD-999 was released. A new series of codes for DVDs was inaugurated in January 2009 in the format JUC-001. Compilation videos are still using the JUSD-xxx format. The studio produces a total of about 20 original and compilation videos per month.^[4] As an addition to the standard Madonna label, in November 2007, Madonna instituted a new label, Fitch, which uses codes of the type JUFD-001.^[13] In November 2011, the DMM website listed a total of 2082 DVDs available under the Madonna name.^[14]

Madonna released its first 3D video, 3D Co-Starring Mature Beauties: Tempting Love of Mother and Aunt, directed by Eitaro Haga and starring Ayano Murasaki and Reiko Makihara, on February 25, 2011.^[15][16]

Madonna entered the 2008 AV Grand Prix competition with the 3-hour video MADONNA BOOTCAMP ELITE [AVGL-025] directed by [Jo]Style and starring Ryoko Murakami, Chisato Shouda, Sayaka Kawase, Rina Uozumi, Mami Todo, Asami Kitamura, Shino Kodama and Rie Sato.^[17] In the 2009 AV Grand Prix, the Madonna entry Raped Female Teacher (犯された女教師) [AVGL-136], starring Reiko Makihara and directed by Eitaro Haga, won one of the Special Awards for Mature Woman Videos.^[18]

AV actresses performing in Madonna videos include:

AV actors performing in Madonna videos include: