The Naked Director

About The Naked Director

Follows the rise of Tooru Muranishi, one of Japan's most notorious directors of adult video. Adapted from a biography of the man, this series depicts the character, his art, vision and his interactions with the approving and disapproving folk around him.

The Naked Director is a comedy series that ran on Netflix. Its themes are yakuza, shōwa era (1926-89), nightclub, and adult magazine.

Its 2 seasons and 16 episodes aired between August 2019 and June 2021. Seasons run to about 8 episodes.

Takayuki Yamada stars as Toru Muranishi, Shinnosuke Mitsushima as Toshi Arai, Misato Morita as Megumi Sahara (Kaoru Kuroki), and Tetsuji Tamayama as Kenji Kawada. The story is adapted from real events.

It streams on Netflix and Netflix Standard with Ads in the United States. Chernobyl, Narcos, and Narcos: Mexico make useful companions to The Naked Director, all filed under 1980s. TMDB voters put it at 7.3 out of 10 across 199 votes and it carries a TV-MA rating.