Funny: No dirty little secret, grandad just happens to be a porn star

HE IS a prolific artist who has appeared in more than 350 films. But Shigeo Tokuda gets little in the way of recognition on the streets of Tokyo. Perhaps that's because at 77, he couldn't look less like a star. Or perhaps it's because admirers tend to keep their appreciation of his work to themselves.

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Tokuda has shot to prominence as Japan's oldest porn actor, the unlikely face of a brand of Japanese blue movie that taps into the country's fast changing demographics. And yet he didn't even get started until he was almost 60.

Tokuda, who is married with two adult children and a grandchild, made his debut in 1994 after a meeting with a porn director in Tokyo.

At 59, in a hotel in western Tokyo, he launched his acting career, playing the part of a company president with a roving eye.

''It was my first time, so they made sure there weren't too many people on the set. I held the camera myself, and the only other people in the room were my co-star, and the lighting and sound engineers.''

So began his double life as a travel agent by day and a porn actor during downtime.

Other than changing his name - Shigeo Tokuda is his professional alias - his attempts to conceal his acting career from his family are surprisingly half-hearted. He had to confess to his daughter after she intercepted a fax offering him a scene that left little to the imagination. ''She was speechless for a while,'' he says.

He had already told his wife of 45 years that he played bit parts in films that sometimes included pornographic content. ''She occasionally suggests it's about time I quit, but we have never argued about it. As long as I don't bring up the subject and treat it more like a hobby, I can get away with it. But I have never breathed a word to my son.''

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Funny: No dirty little secret, grandad just happens to be a porn star

Funny: No dirty little secret, grandad just happens to be a porn star

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