Besides revealing that Asuka Kirara (明日花kirara) is very demanding on set, are you also interested in Kato Taka's AV career?
After spending a few days with him, I roughly understand his personality: besides being very talkative, like a Tang Sanzang from the Journey to the East version of the Monkey King, he also extremely enjoys being recognized. He never refuses a photo with anyone who wants one. Because of this personality, he couldn't help but want to share his AV career, which explains why Wikipedia has such a detailed introduction to him…
How detailed? For example, he acted in a total of 15,000 works, earning a maximum of 25 million yen (approximately NT$7.13 million in 1995) in one year. Over 24 years, he earned a total of 300 million yen (approximately NT$85.52 million). It's truly enviable that he could earn so much money with his golden touch and his penis. In addition, his favorite "Toyomaru" was "Kizuki Mariko," because Kizuki Mariko was the only actress he couldn't get an erection with during filming. And the two even lived together for a while afterward.
However, he himself also said that it happened when he was an AV actor. There's so much to say, we could talk about it for three days straight, but there's one thing that wasn't recorded on Wikipedia, so I'll share it here:
Everyone knows he got into the industry because the male actor who was originally booked didn't show up, and he, working as a camera assistant on set, had to fill in. But there's more to the story. After filming, he received a lot of praise for his "egg-sized head" and his ability to get hard instantly, but Kato Taka himself wasn't really keen on acting at the time. In the end, the director just asked him to film three movies...
And then? After filming the first three movies, offers for the fourth, fifth, and even sixth quickly followed. In that era of the bubble economy, demand from production companies was huge. Having already slept with 503 women back in his hometown of Akita, he felt making money off his penis was a good idea. So, he went from half-heartedly pursuing his career as an AV actor, eventually having sexual relations with approximately 8500 actresses.
Unlike most male AV actors, Kato Taka's work came easily, and he quite enjoyed the limelight, so he was inevitably a bit exaggerated in some ways; for example, when I directly asked him what qualifications were needed to become an AV actor... His answer was that you don't need to be thick, big, long, or super hard. As long as you are willing, everyone can be a master chef and have a golden touch. It's like when I asked the top student in my class in high school how to study more efficiently, and he said he didn't study at all. It was infuriating to hear that!
