Oh, that would explain why I am having trouble getting responses from them ...

I use their form. Always get action or response. Maybe take the approach of asking them if there is a problem with your sites or sales efforts and ask them to help you fix it or give you advice. I got paid by them recently. By check. Are your payments set to pay by check?

I've been working with JAV, (uncensored Japanese AV) since 2005. Some of what you say is true but not all of it. The story varies from company to company.

Problem for pitching censored content on this board is that there is little to no interest in it. From webmasters and the surfers. Its an acquired taste by devoted fans.

We work with and shoot for companies based in Japan. At this point, we mostly shoot for content destined for the censored, within Japan route. Shooting uncensored and trying to take it outside the country can get you jailed, banned from entering the country or both.

You can find companies who will do licenses for 1-5 years with a yearly sum paid in advance. These days licensing issues come about because Japanese companies are a bit worried about having too many overt connections to the uncensored world. Police are beating down on the AV business pretty hard these days.

It's not simply a matter of finding someone to speak for you when doing business in japan. The most important thing. The ultimate thing...is for the company to know that you know and understand the rules the AV business functions by. In the past 10 years too many outside companies have stolen then tried to get deals with Japanese companies. The 1 or 2 companies who control most of the uncensored content do so because they own the market...and everyone in it. They even own those thieves people talk about and from here it looks like they are slowly squeezing them out.

BTW, DMRC has been on line for 2+ years now.

If someone is looking to license content and you want help working your way through rules you must obey, we might be able to help you license content.
If you have little money, content will be old and nearly worthless. If you want to make a site that sells... as Michael Eisner said in "Family Guy" - "Bring Money!"

To be honest, Japanese AV companies are not very interested in licensing their content to foreigners. Some will, but they are not Japanese. Most likely Chinese or Korean. Probably 50% of the Japanese AV business is comprised of non-Japanese. In Japan, having a Japanese name does not make you Japanese.

Presently, a number of Japanese companies are working to make their own sites for the kaigai (foreign) market. We are helping them to do so.

I have setuped paxum payments, was getting them without problems for 5 years, I just only realized, they started to stop sending me payments sometimes last year. Having mostly only rebills...

that's cuz paxum is no longer possible at AMP, change for check and you will have your money (from my experience).

Pick another payout method. They dropped Paxum. Don't know why.

From our experiences, only one company was a bit uneasy being shown on a site that also shows uncensored content. They told us that'd be fine if we didn't use their studio name though in the end we backed out since what they did already overlapped with another studio we work with.

I think as more Japanese AV companies look outward, they're becoming more inured to uncensored content--not in a production standpoint since it's illegal for them to do that, but in a "OK, we don't mind showing our content on sites that also have uncensored content" way.



"To be honest, Japanese AV companies are not very interested in licensing their content to foreigners."

I disagree somewhat here. All Japanese AV companies are interested in making money. Be it foreign or local, if the conditions are good, they'll go in. However, as you wrote and I also did earlier, the foreign side of the deal must seriously know Japanese business and the language well too. A foreign company emailing a studio out of the blue and lowballing with a royalty-free offer (since that's what mostly flies in the west it seems) will go nowhere. Many Japanese companies be it AV or mainstream are extremely risk-averse. They fear change and they fear the unknown so even a bit of uneasiness in spite if being offered a potentially good deal would end in a deal gone dead.


BTW, which censored studios do you shoot for?

It's a difficult time in the AV business in Japan. That is certain.
You ask, who we shoot for..If you were as deep into the AV biz as you say you would know and understand that question cannot be answered. I've asked some friends at studios you list if they know you. Waiting for responses.

I agree with you that many studios are risk-adverse... So much money left on the table because of this. But gaijin are problematic.

Fewer are looking outward because the Tokyo Met and Kyoto Cyber Unit looks more and more inward. I think things will be better after 2020.

How is the Vancouver winter treating you?

If you're shooting uncensored content, there's a reason to remain clandestine, but if it's totally legal content (ie, censored), I don't see the reason why you wish to remain secretive about it. I know many people in production and provided they're talking with industry people, they won't beat around the bush as to their paymasters.

I don't live in Canada. Never even been there yet.

The first time we met you told me you lived and worked out of Vancouver.

I'm not willing to discuss employers with you because you are not trustworthy. You talk too much and you don't tell the truth.

You mentioned on JSCOTT's "board" you spend low 6 figures on content. You should have come to me. I can get that same stuff for next to nothing. I mean, come on.

Anyway, done here.

I hope the OP gets his payments straightened out.

Dude, I've never met you in my life. You probably have me confused with someone else. In fact I'm sure you do. I've never told anyone I lived and worked out of Vancouver. I've never even been there let alone Canada. I've never even met another non-Japanese industry person in person (I'm assuming you're not Japanese and if you are, my apologies for the mistaken assumption).


"You mentioned on JSCOTT's "board" you spend low 6 figures on content. You should have come to me. I can get that same stuff for next to nothing. I mean, come on."

See, right here? This is what why I'm feeling conflicted. I feel like you're upset that someone else on GFY works within the JAV industry and is telling a different story than you. You seem to have a really negative slant on the industry: "The industry sucks! Foreigners aren't welcome! However, if you want content, come to me and nobody else! Who do I shoot for? Can't say, but we've the best content because I know people."

I get the feeling that your intention is to make it seem like the JAV industry is totally closed off and close-minded so foreign webmasters will just go through you for content. Nine out of ten times, you'll get a better deal through the studio and also foster a much closer relationship which will open many doors.

I feel the industry is much more open and anything is possible so long as one is determined. What I have in my sig regarding studio introductions is not something I am looking to make money off of. I don't plan to charge a cent so long as the help needed from me is all email-based (meeting in person is a different story). I want foreign webmasters to have an easier go at licensing content direct from the source and I want studios to have a better relationship with foreign webmasters. It's a win-win for everyone.

It seems like you really do have me mistaken though for someone else. I hope we can somehow make amends in the future and maybe even meet sometime in Tokyo.

received a check from Mark, got paid!
we can close thread

My experience is different, for me it went quite easy. When I was looking for Japanese content I contacted a Japanese affiliate that we had in our affiliate database and told him that we are interested in buying Japanese content and asked him if he could contact some studios for us. His English was not very good but good enough to get things going. He contacted several studios that were carrying the niche I was looking for (I was looking for a very specific niche) and a few of them were interested, and one of them was even willing to sell it uncensored. The affiliate set up various meetings for me and I flew to Tokyo where I stayed a couple of days and met with various studios and producers, from small to big and set up some deals. They took me to nice restaurants and clubs and showed me their offices etc. It was a very interesting experience, I was only like 25 at that time and many of the guys I met were like twice my age. On my first trip I already left with my first DV tapes with content I licenced (which was even including DVD rights outside Japan). In the beginning the affiliate always acted as my translator, but later when the Japanese guys I did deals with came to Europe we hired professional translators.

japan govt know you export uncensored? :1orglaugh wonder when you raid coming

Nice to hear you had a good experience. May I ask what studio(s) you worked out deals with?

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