Kingdom (director)

Kingdom is a Japanese adult video (AV) director who was born in Sapporo, Japan in 1975. According to his official website (last updated September 2007), he had directed more than 400 videos while specializing in the "slut woman" (痴女, chijo) and "semen" (ザーメン, zāmen) genres of Japanese porn.

Life and career

Kingdom started as a director at Waap Entertainment along with Alala Kurosawa, [Jo]Style and K*WEST. His first production for Waap was at least as early as April 2001 and he went on to make more than 30 videos for Waap. Later in his career he worked extensively for one of the Japanese adult video industry's largest studios, Moodyz, and when the S1 No. 1 Style studio was launched in November 2004, Kingdom was one of their inaugural directors along with Hideto Aki, [Jo]Style, and Yuji Sakamoto.

Kingdom received the award for Best Director at the 2004 Moodyz Awards as well as Special Title Awards for two of his 2004 videos for Moodyz, Life in Prison for Sexual Woman and Sexual Jail House. At the 2005 Moodyz Awards, his video A Queendom of Eros, a large-budget costume drama to celebrate Moodyz' fifth anniversary, won the Moodyz Award.