Dogma studio
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Dogma is a Japanese adult video company based in Tokyo
Tokyo
, ; officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan. Tokyo is the capital of Japan, the center of the Greater Tokyo Area, and the largest metropolitan area of Japan. It is the seat of the Japanese government and the Imperial Palace, and the home of the Japanese Imperial Family...

 which specializes in various fetish genres of pornography.

Company information

The Dogma label was formed as part of the Soft On Demand
Soft on Demand
, often known as SOD, is a Japanese adult video group of companies which has its headquarters in the Nakano ward of Tokyo. SOD was founded in December 1995 by Ganari Takahashi, who retired from the company in March 2005 and is currently working in agriculture...

 (SOD) group in February 2001 by Tohjiro
Tohjiro
Tohjiro or TOHJIRO is an adult video director and the founder of the AV studio Dogma who has been described as a "charismatic director" and has been called the "greatest porn director in the world.-Life and career:...

, a director at SOD. A year later, Tohjiro separated Dogma from SOD to become a separate "indie" producer of AV material. Tohjiro said he liked the sound of the word "Dogma" and decided to use it for his label. The studio produces about 8 new titles a month, about half of them directed by Tohjiro. The company's products are distributed as downloadable videos through their website and as DVDs through the Hokuto Corporation
Hokuto Corporation
The is a Japanese joint stock company involved in the distribution of adult videos and adult toys. The firm, founded in March 1990, is headquartered in Tokyo at the Ebisu Garden Place Tower. By late 2008, Hokuto was handling products from more than 150 different adult video studios, making it the...

. In addition to video production, Dogma has also made a small foray into the T-Shirt
T-shirt
A T-shirt is a style of shirt. A T-shirt is buttonless and collarless, with short sleeves and frequently a round neck line....

 business with some designs by AV Idol
AV Idol
An AV idol is a Japanese idol who works in the pornographic business, often both as an actress as well as a model as the video performances have a wide range, from just the idol strolling around their house doing chores in bikinis to hardcore porn...

 Kurumi Morishita
Kurumi Morishita
is a well-known adult video actress who had a long and prolific career. As of late 2010, Amazon listed 148 DVD titles for her, reflecting her status as a prominent AV Idol. She retired from the adult entertainment industry in 2009.-Life and career:...

.

Dogma is incorporated as OM Production, Inc. (株式会社オムプロダクション) with Muneyuki Mikami (三上宗之) as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. The company has its offices and studios in Tokyo
Tokyo
, ; officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan. Tokyo is the capital of Japan, the center of the Greater Tokyo Area, and the largest metropolitan area of Japan. It is the seat of the Japanese government and the Imperial Palace, and the home of the Japanese Imperial Family...

's Roppongi
Roppongi
is a district of Minato, Tokyo, Japan, famous as home to the rich Roppongi Hills area and an active night club scene. Many foreign embassies are located in Roppongi, and the night life is popular with locals and foreigners alike...

 district.

Series and labels

Dogma specializes in extreme videos depicting various fetish genres including anal sex
Anal sex
Anal sex is the sex act in which the penis is inserted into the anus of a sexual partner. The term can also include other sexual acts involving the anus, including pegging, anilingus , fingering, and object insertion.Common misconception describes anal sex as practiced almost exclusively by gay men...

, bondage
Bondage (BDSM)
Bondage is the use of restraints for the sexual pleasure of the parties involved. It may be used in its own right, as in the case of rope bondage and breast bondage, or as part of sexual activity or BDSM activity.- Private bondage :...

, S&M, forced fellatio
Fellatio
Fellatio is an act of oral stimulation of a male's penis by a sexual partner. It involves the stimulation of the penis by the use of the mouth, tongue, or throat. The person who performs fellatio can be referred to as the giving partner, and the other person is the receiving partner...

 and vomiting, enemas, watersports
Urolagnia
Urolagnia is a paraphilia in which sexual excitement is associated with the sight or thought of urine or urination. The term has origins in the Greek Language .Those who enjoy urolagnia may enjoy urinating on another person or persons, or being urinated upon...

 and scat
Coprophilia
Coprophilia , also called scatophilia or scat, is the paraphilia involving sexual pleasure from feces...

. One of Dogma's longest running series is "Confinement Chair Trance" (拘束椅子トランス), directed by Tohjiro
Tohjiro
Tohjiro or TOHJIRO is an adult video director and the founder of the AV studio Dogma who has been described as a "charismatic director" and has been called the "greatest porn director in the world.-Life and career:...

, which started up in November 2002. Another Tohjiro series is the S&M "M-Drug" (Mドラッグ) series which began in September 2005 with Mayura Hoshitsuki
Mayura Hoshitsuki
was an award-winning Japanese adult video actress who retired from the adult industry in 2010. Her extended career, popularity and impressive filmography qualify her as an AV idol.-Life and career:...

. Tohjiro is also the director of the "Innocent Desire" (青い性欲) lolita-genre series which premiered in March 2001 when Dogma was still part of SOD. Another extensive series is the "Hermaphrodite"
Futanari
Futanari is the Japanese word for androgyny or hermaphrodite. Until 1644, the appeal of sexually ambiguous, futanari characters portrayed by onnagata actors was a popular element in Japanese drama, and there is a flourishing futanari anime and manga genre in Japan today.- History in Japanese...

 (ふたなり) set of videos directed by Hitoshi Nimura.

Most Dogma videos have been released under the Dogma label but Tohjiro
Tohjiro
Tohjiro or TOHJIRO is an adult video director and the founder of the AV studio Dogma who has been described as a "charismatic director" and has been called the "greatest porn director in the world.-Life and career:...

 instituted a separate hardcore S&M themed label, CORE SM, in December 2005 with its first release being Maki Tomoda - Bound Masochistic Slave. Another label, Shyness, was started in November 2007 to continue the "Innocent Desire" lolita-genre series and a third label, Dogma Out, was used in 2005 and 2006 mostly by director Baba the Babee. The CORE label uses the production code series COT-xxx, Shyness uses DDH-xxx, and Dogma Out uses ODD-xxx.

Actresses

Two actresses have been under contract to Dogma although both retired in recent years, Morishita in 2009 and Hoshitsuki in 2010.
  • Mayura Hoshitsuki
    Mayura Hoshitsuki
    was an award-winning Japanese adult video actress who retired from the adult industry in 2010. Her extended career, popularity and impressive filmography qualify her as an AV idol.-Life and career:...

  • Kurumi Morishita
    Kurumi Morishita
    is a well-known adult video actress who had a long and prolific career. As of late 2010, Amazon listed 148 DVD titles for her, reflecting her status as a prominent AV Idol. She retired from the adult entertainment industry in 2009.-Life and career:...



  • Other actresses who have performed in Dogma videos include:
    • Hotaru Akane
      Hotaru Akane
      aka is an award-winning Japanese model and AV idol. She is active in many media formats in Japan including a role in a mainstream theatrical film, and is a popular blogger. Her adeptness at female ejaculation has earned Akane the title, "Shiofuki Queen". She retired from AV work in 2008.-Early...

    • Ran Asakawa
      Ran Asakawa
      is a famous and extremely prolific Japanese model and AV idol who made her debut in the adult entertainment field in 2001.-Life and career:Ran Asakawa was born in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan on 4 September 1980. Her first sexual encounter happened when she was 19 and was with a businessman...

    • Nao Ayukawa
    • Rio Hamasaki
    • Chihiro Hara
      Chihiro Hara
      is a multiple award-winning Japanese adult video performer.-Life and career:Chihiro Hara was born on May 22, 1984 in Tokyo, Japan. She made her debut in adult videos in November 2004 with the S1 No. 1 Style studio in New Face x Semen. Her debut was part of the first group of videos simultaneously...

    • Mai Haruna
      Mai Haruna
      is a popular and prolific Japanese model and AV idol. She debuted in 2002 and performed in a variety of Japanese adult video genres until her retirement in 2005.-Life and career:...

    • Chihiro Hasegawa
      Chihiro Hasegawa
      , also known as Nami Funakura , is an award-winning Japanese AV idol who has starred in more than 200 adult videos on various labels.-Life and career:...

    • Ai Himeno
  • Hikari Hino
    Hikari Hino
    is a Japanese AV idol, or porn star who has performed for several prominent adult video companies.-Life and career:Hino was born March 7, 1986 in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. In July 2005 she debuted at age 19 on the Crystal-Eizou company's Venus label in the video G's Curiosity - Hikari Hino...

  • Marin Izumi
  • Kyōko Kazama
    Kyōko Kazama
    is a Japanese AV idol and pink film actress. She has appeared in award-winning pink films, and was herself given a "Best Supporting Actress" award in two successive years for her work in this genre in 2006 and 2007.-Life and career:...

  • Yumi Kazama
  • Jun Kusanagi
    Jun Kusanagi
    is a Japanese model and AV idol famous for her metric G-cup-sized bust. She has been called "one of Japan's most prolific and popular photo model/AV stars."-Early life:...

  • Saya Misaki
    Saya Misaki
    , also known as was a Japanese adult film actress. Misaki's career spanned over two years during which she appeared in at least seventy DVDs.- AV career :...

  • Haruki Mizuno
    Haruki Mizuno
    is a popular Japanese AV, gravure idol, and mainstream media celebrity.-Life and career:Mizuno was born in Tokyo on July 21, 1979. She dropped out of high school, and thinks that if she had not become an AV star, she would be working at soapland....

  • Akane Mochida
  • Nozomi Momoi
    Nozomi Momoi
    was a popular and prolific Japanese AV idol, known for her "baby face that topped off a huge set of boobs" She appeared in over 100 movies, appearing in up to ten releases per month. In an incident that shocked the nation, she was murdered at the age of 24.-Early life:Nozomi Momoi was born in Tokyo...

  • Ayano Murasaki
    Ayano Murasaki
    is a Japanese adult video performer.-Life and career:Ayano Murasaki was born in the Ibaraki Prefecture of Japan on March 29, 1969. She made her adult video debut in late 2003 at the age of 34. The market for such "mature woman" or "madame" actresses appeared in Japanese porn films in the mid-1990s...

  • Ami Nishimura
  • Noa
  • Maria Ozawa
    Maria Ozawa
    , who used the name early in her career, is a former Japanese adult video actress known in Japan as an AV idol.-Early life:Ozawa was born in Hokkaidō, Japan. Her mother is Japanese and her father is Canadian. Since she always attended an international school, she claims that her English reading...

  • Sakura Sakurada
    Sakura Sakurada
    is a Japanese actress, model and adult video star who has also used the name for still photo shoots. Her long and prolific career and international recognition mark her as an AV Idol.-Early career - "Uncensored Movies":...

  • Riko Tachibana
    Riko Tachibana
    is a popular and award-winning Japanese adult video idol . Taller than average, Tachibana debuted in 2003 and starred in many adult videos which emphasized her height. An extremely prolific actress, Tachibana had performed in over 200 AVs when she was awarded for Most Appearances at Japan's Adult...

  • Maki Tomoda
    Maki Tomoda
    is an award-winning Japanese actress who is best known for her appearances in adult videos where her long and varied career has cemented her status as an AV idol...


  • Directors

    Listed below are the directors active at Dogma at the beginning of 2009 and also the first part of the production codes series used to identify their original videos for the Dogma label:
    • TOHJIRO
      Tohjiro
      Tohjiro or TOHJIRO is an adult video director and the founder of the AV studio Dogma who has been described as a "charismatic director" and has been called the "greatest porn director in the world.-Life and career:...

       (DDT)
    • Hitoshi Nimura (DDN)
    • TENUN (DDU)
    • Be-Bop Minoru (DDB)
  • Normal Kim (DDK)
  • Naniwa Ranko (DRD)
  • Samurai Van (DDV)


  • Past directors at Dogma include:
    • Baba the Babee (DDB)
    • K*WEST (DWD)
    • KINGDOM
      Kingdom (director)
      KINGDOM is a Japanese adult video director who was born in Sapporo, Japan in 1975. According to his official website , he had directed more than 400 videos while specializing in the and genres of Japanese porn....

       (DKD)
    • Kyuuta Kutsume (DDQ)
  • Kazuhiko Matsumoto
    Kazuhiko Matsumoto
    is a prominent Japanese adult video director, credited with inventing the bukkake genre of Japanese pornography.-MVG:Matsumoto was the founder and first director of M's Video Group in 1995...

     (DDM)
  • Company Matsuo
    Company Matsuo
    is an innovative Japanese adult video director, producer and entrepreneur. He is credited with popularizing the Japanese porn genre of "hamedori" where the director/actor performs sexually with the actress and also films the action. He has been called "a master of shooting pornography with...

     (for the Out label)
  • Goro Tameike
    Goro Tameike
    is a Japanese adult video director who has directed more than 450 videos. He was one of the first exponents of the genre in AV.-Life and career:...

     (DDG)

  • D-1 Climax Awards

    Dogma sponsored the D-1 Climax (D-1 クライマックス) awards, which ran from 2005 to 2007, as a competition for directors. Several prominent directors from Dogma and other companies were invited to make videos under the Dogma label and sales during a set period plus voting by judges were used to determine the winners of the contest. Director and founder Tohjiro
    Tohjiro
    Tohjiro or TOHJIRO is an adult video director and the founder of the AV studio Dogma who has been described as a "charismatic director" and has been called the "greatest porn director in the world.-Life and career:...

     won the award in 2005 and 2006 but Hitoshi Nimura took the prize in 2007.

    AV GrandPrix

    Dogma had not participated in the AV Open
    AV Open
    AV Open is a major awards contest for the Japanese adult video industry. It has gone from a limited sales contest in 2006 to become, via its successor the AV GrandPrix, the major Japanese AV award with nearly 100 participating companies competing for the 2009 awards.-AV Open Origins:The AV Open...

     contests in 2006 and 2007 but with the ending of the D-1 Climax Awards, Dogma did enter a video in the Maniac Stage of the 2008 AV GrandPrix, a compilation from Tohjiro
    Tohjiro
    Tohjiro or TOHJIRO is an adult video director and the founder of the AV studio Dogma who has been described as a "charismatic director" and has been called the "greatest porn director in the world.-Life and career:...

    's M-Drug series Best of M Drug - Female Meat Toilet (Mドラッグ・スペシャル 女体肉便器ベスト) [AVGL-019]. For the 2009 AV GrandPrix competition, the Dogma entry was another Tohjiro production, Vomit Enema Ecstasy X (ゲロ浣腸エクスタシー X) [AVGL-130] starring Mayura Hoshitsuki
    Mayura Hoshitsuki
    was an award-winning Japanese adult video actress who retired from the adult industry in 2010. Her extended career, popularity and impressive filmography qualify her as an AV idol.-Life and career:...

     and Yuka Oosawa. Tohjiro made some waves by declaring all-out war by the small "indie" producer Dogma to defeat last year's champion, top studio S1 No. 1 Style
    S1 No. 1 Style
    or just S1 is a major Japanese producer of adult videos which has its offices in Tokyo's Meguro Ward.-Company Information:S1 is one of the many affiliated companies in the giant Hokuto Corporation group. Hokuto distributes the studio's videos via retail sales and online through its DMM website...

    . Although S1 did take the GrandPrix top prize and several others, Tohjiro made good on part of his boast - the Dogma video won the Digital Sales Award and the 2 million yen (about $20,000) prize money.
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