Hot Entertainment

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::summary Japanese pornographic film company ::

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Field	Value
name	Hot Entertainment
foundation	March 1991
founder	Shungo Kaji
location_city	Tokyo
location_country	Japan
key_people	Shinsuke Kaji (梶 晋介), President
industry	Pornography
products	Pornographic films
homepage	http://hot-et.com/
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Hot Entertainment is a Japanese adult video (AV) production company which has its headquarters in Tokyo, Japan and specializes in works featuring amateur actresses in "reality" videos.

Company information

Hot Entertainment was founded on March 29, 1991 by Shungo Kaji. The company is located in the Sasazuka district of Tokyo's fashionable Shibuya ward. Hot Entertainment produces about 10 new videos per month and the DMM website, the distribution arm for the Hokuto Corporation, had over 1250 DVDs listed as manufactured under the Hot Entertainment brand in September 2011. Hot Entertainment also produced and released the 1999 theatrical movie Ekiben directed by Shungo Kaji.

In 2005, the AV columnist for the AllAbout website, Kemuta Ōtsubo, singled out Hot Entertainment as the most interesting AV company of the year, noting that the company had the best track record for turnover in AV rental stores for 2003 and 2004 and had programs featured on TV. He also lauds the studio for producing future directorial talent including AV directors Masaaki Kai, Hideto Aki and Sabbath Horinaka.

The company operates its own website (hot-et.com) (created January 26, 2001) which offers information on new releases and a market for DVD sales.{{cite web|url=http://whois.domaintools.com/hot-et.com|title=Whois Record For Hot-Et.com |publisher=whois.domaintools.com|access-date=2011-09-26}}

Hot Entertainment AV Visual Arts Academy

In the Fall of 2007, Hot Entertainment set up a series of courses for people wanting to enter the adult video industry, under the name of Hot Entertainment AV Visual Arts Academy. A separate series of courses consisting of seven or eight 90-minute classes was available for a 200,000 yen (about $2000) fee for aspiring producers, directors and actors. Instructors at the Academy were Hot Entertainment founder Shungo Kaji, Naoki Fushimi (伏見直樹) and Kaoru Mizuki (水木薫). The curriculum for the directors' course included topics such as planning, themes, documentary versus dramatic works and whether videos should be based only on the actress. Salary scales are also mentioned, running from 8000–10,000 yen per day for extras and "soup men" to 50,000 yen for veteran actors and 100,000 to 300,000 yen for directors.

Labels

In addition to Hot Entertainment, the company has also used the following labels:

• Cheery
• Kaji
• Masaaki Kai

Directors

Directors who have worked for Hot Entertainment include:

• Masaaki Kai
• Shungo Kaji
• Gunji Kawasaki

Actresses

Some of the actresses who have appeared in Hot Entertainment videos: ::data[format=table]

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AV Grand Prix

Hot Entertainment was one of the 77 companies which submitted entries for the 2008 AV Grand Prix contest. Their nominee was the video 100 Person Nampa Battle of All Time (labeled AVGP-031) with amateur actresses. The company also participated in the 2009 AV Grand Prix competition as well with the video Hot Thanksgiving: The Yakyuken Coliseum, labeled AVGP-142, and starring Yūka Ōsawa, Riku Shiina, Yūho Kitada, Saki Tsuji, Ren Hitomi and Hikari Aoyama.

Notes

References

1. "会社案内 (About Us)". hot-et.com.
2. "Shungo Kaji". kaji-world.net.
3. "新作紹介 (New Works)". hot-et.com.
4. "DVD通販 > メーカー > ホットエンターテイメント (DVD store: Manufacturer Hot Entertainment)". DMM.
5. link. AllCinema
6. link. AllAbout. Otsubo. Kemuta. (April 30, 2005)
7. link. AllAbout. Otsubo. Kemuta. (September 19, 2007)
8. "学院について (Academy)". hot-et.com/avschool/.
9. "講師陣紹介 (Instructors)". hot-et.com/avschool/.
10. "カリキュラム (Curriculum)". hot-et.com/avschool/.
11. "Studio Hot Entertainment". Urabon Navigator.
12. "AV Grand Prix 2008 Grand Prix Stage". dmm.co.jp.
13. "HOT感謝祭 THE 野球拳COLISEUM". av-gp.com.

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