Shu Qi Turns Down Zhang Ziyi

In my opinion, Chinese actress Shu Qi (aka Hsu Chi, Shu Kei, Li Hui Lin, best known to Western audiences for her role in the film The Transporter, is one the most beautiful women in the world. Shu Qi got her start doing nude modeling, then progressed into acting in more mainstream Chinese films and has become one of Asia's top stars.

Despite her apparent comfort with nudity in her early career (see photos below), Shu Qi (舒淇)  recently turned down an offer offer to star in a movie production of Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (雪花与秘扇), based on a novel by Chinese-American author Lisa See. 

The film is to be produced by a group including Chinese actress Zhang Ziyi (章子怡 ), the wife of media mogul Rupert Murdoch and the wife of MGM's chairman and will be directed by Chinese-American Wayne Wang (Joy Luck Club). Shooting is to begin in early 2010 in China.

Somewhat surprisingly, Shu Qi's reported reason for turning down the role was that it includes a nude scene. Shu Qi was to play the character of Snow Flower who forms a lifelong friendship Zhang Ziyi's character, Lily, and the story contains a scene showing both characters nude, writing on each other's chests in a secret script (Nu Shu) developed by a group of Chinese women.

Here's a couple views of Shu Qi when she was less reluctant to show off her very lovely body.

While its certainly commendable that Shu Qi has gone from nude modeling to eak out a living in her late teens to becoming a talented and popular actress, its a shame that Shu turned down what could have been a great role in what will be a very well-produced and heavily promoted international film. Her decision may also have to do with the facxt that she doesn't speak English very well which might have been difficult since the role may require considerable dialog.

Ironically, Shu Qi's and Zhang Ziyi's careers have crossed paths before when Shu Qi (or her manager) turned down a role in Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon so she could film a commercial in Japan. Meanwhile, the critically acclaimed and commercial successful Crouching Tiger made Zhang an international star.

Zhang is reportedly disappointed with Shu Qi's decision and is looking for someone else to play her co-nude role. Internet speculation has suggested replacements including other Chinese superstar actreeses Fan Bingbing (范冰冰), Zhou Xun (周迅), Gong Li (巩俐), Maggie Cheung(张曼玉) and Li Bingbing (李冰冰) as well as lesser knowns Ruby Lin (林心如) and Tang Wei湯唯), famous for her nude scenes in Ang Lee's Lust, Caution). Any one of these beautiful ladies certainly wouldn't be bad, but its hard to match the sexual appeal of a Zhang Ziyi/Shu Qi dynamic bare-chested calligraphy duo.

What Could Have Been

Kim Tao Early Retirement?

Well, some sad news for us Asian porn fans. Looks like Vietnamese newbie Kim Tao who I wrote about in a previous entry is giving up porn, at least for the time being. She explains her reasons on her blog and while I'd love to see more of her, I have to admit I can understand her concerns.

It seems her decision is partly based on her fear of doing bareback sex scenes which are the norm in pornoland. Also, Kim's moved from L.A. to N.Y. so the porn career isn't that feasible.She does seem to leave open the possibility of doing more porn in future though.

Kim's only done two porn scenes (both ironically without condoms) - one for CumFu and one for Mr Chews Asian Beaver. She does a good job in both, sucking and fucking some nice big cocks (she looks really good doing it doggie style).

Here's a video preview of Kim getting her hot, horny pussy filled in her Mr Chews scene.

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Here's some pics of Kim in her CumFu scene and here's some sample video clips. Looks like that cock in the last pic is a bit big for her, but Kim takes it like a pro.

Before you get too depressed, if you're really crazy about Kim, she does escorting so you could have your own intimate experience with her (if you're willing to pay the price). You can check out her touring calendar on her website and e-mail Kim about hooking up. If anyone's had the pleasure of experiencing Kim, feel free to comment.

Kaila Yu: Nude Model to Nylon Pink

It isn't really accurate to call Kaila Yu a porn star since she's much more well known as an import model, singer, dancer, and sometime actress. However, she did appear in one amateur porn video, has posed nude quite a bit, and looks fantastic so I can't resist including her here.

Kaila Yu (于麗萍, Yú Lìpíng) was born in Taiwan in 1979, but grew up in Southern California. While attending college, Kaila started modeling at import car shows and quickly developed a loyal fan base. Her popularity among the import car scene may have helped her get a part in the movie,The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift.

Kaila has also modeled for Playboy (magazine issues and their website), FHM, and many import magazines and has also made TV appearances on The Man Show, MTV's House of Style, etc.

Kaila was a bit of an Internet pioneer, starting her own website in 2000 with a members section for fans wanting to see her nude photo sets (and later videos). Speaking of videos, here's a link to a Playboy video Kaila did (I'd mute the sound while playing it since the music sucks, but Kaila looks great).

However, before Kaila started to become famous from her import modeling and website, she appeared in two amateur porn videos (probably to make some quick money while in college). One was for the Casting Couch, a web-based series of amateur girls making their porn debuts. In Virgin Learning New Trick, a young Kaila (under the name Nina) is supposed to be a 19 year old virgin. It seems quite unlikely that Kaila would still have her cherry intact at this point considering how hot she is and all the guys who must have been hitting on her for a chance to get into her tight young hole.  

In her scene, Kaila does an interview and then strips off her clothes to show off her assets.  She then masturbates and eventually lets a guy play with her pussy a little and toward the end gives him and lets him come on her tits.

Kaila would probably like to forget this early part of her acting career, but nowadays with the Internet, you can never escape things you've done on video. On that note, I managed to find Kaila's scene online so you can check it out at Pornphase.

Kaila's acting career has progressed somewhat with some minor roles in more mainstream films including Jade Buddha, The Metrosexual, and Dark Blue which stars Kurt Russell (Kaila plays a dancer in a strip club).

Unfortunately for fans of Kaila (at least fans wanting to see her in her full naked glory), Kaila has 
moved away from nude modeling and shut down her website. Since 2003, she's put most of her effort into developing a singing career. She released a self-titled album in 2003 which had, at best, only modest success.

Recently, Kaila made a career change by forming the group Nylon Pink with some other chciks and a guy drummer. 

Here's a behind-the-scenes video about the making of Nylon Pink's music video.

While not the same as her wonderful nude photos, Kaila still looks great.

Here's a video of Kaila boxing (well sort of) - Its more of an interview/promotion clip, but Kaila does describe her attempt at joining the mile high club.

If you'd like to become friends with Kaila, you can find her on Facebook.

Whether Kaila's music career works out or not, you've got to admire her determination and persistence in pursuing her dreams. Let's hope whatever happens, Kaila will be around one way or another for us all to see much more of.

And I'll leave you with a video clip of Kaila looking luscious dancing in a bikini.

Top 100 Porn Stars of 2009

Genesis magazine on recently came out with its list of “Porn’s Hot 100,”a ranking of the 100 hottest porn stars for 2009

Sasha Grey was ranked #1 which probably isn't all that surprising. Sasha is known for her willingness to do just about anything in her videos (Pirates II and This Ain’t Star Trek XXX just to name a couple). She's also starred the Showtime reality series, “Deeper Throat and Steven Soderbergh's Hollywood film, The Girlfriend Experience(Sasha plays a call girl). Maybe not so coincidentally, issue of Genesis includes a centerfold layout featuring Sasha photographed by her fiance Ian Cinnamon.

Jenna Haze was ranked #2. I can't really argue #1 and 2 since both Sasha and Jenna are good looking and consistently hot and nasty performers. After that, the list becomes very debatable. The full Top 100 list can be viewed at Genesis Online.

The top 5 includes one Asian porn star, Tera Patrick at #4. I don't think Tera has been all that active over the past year and, although she's got the looks, her performances have never been anything that special. Reportedly, she's affiliated with Genesis although I'm sure that had nothing to do with her high ranking.

Other than Tera at #4, there aren't too many Asians in the top 100. Others that did make it are:

Katsuni - #23: Katsuni (formerly Katsumi) has been one of the hottest porn performers over the past several years. I definitely rank her higher than some of the girls above her on this list.

Kaylani Lei - #38: You've got to be kidding - she's cute, but she hadn't done anything until her recent lukewarm comeback (ok, so she finally took a dick up her ass - porn stars are supoosed to do that and look like they love it). Even timid Tera's done a bit more than that.

Mika Tan - #57: No argument here. Mika has lasted in porn longer than just about any female performers and you can always count on her for a great effort in her scenes. If anything, I'd rank her a bit higher. Check out a scene with Mika from Nurseholes 2.

Gianna Lynn - 58: Don't know if I'd rank Gianna quite so high, but she's not a bad choice. Check out a sample video of Gianna rising cock.

Roxy Jezel - 70: Definitely been one of the nastiest performers in the biz for several years now. You can watch one of Roxy's nice anal scenes here.

Jandi Lin - 71: Jandi di some great scenes over the past year or so, but is unfortunately out of the jizz biz now. Here's a POV anal scene by Jandi for your viewing pleasure.

Got any suggestions as to other Asian porn stars that she be in the Top 100? Feel free to leave a comment if you do. Maybe we'll have to do a poll for an annual Asian porn star ranking.

Yumi Kai Penthouse Pet

Yumi Kai is a 25 year old Filipina who graces the cover of the September issue of  Penthouse. She's 5'2", 105 lbs. has 35C breasts (obviously enhanced, but quite nice).

Yumi was born in Davao City and grew up in the Philippines, but moved to the U.S. about 3 years ago. Welcome to the USA Ms. Kai!

As you can see, Yumi is looking extremely lovely in her Penthouse spread. Let's hope we'll get to see more of her in the future.

If you'd like to see more of Yumi now, you might be able to catch her online since she does private webcam shows. Check this link to see if she's online and, if so, enjoy yourself with her. Yumi's a kinky girl who says she's into Ass Play (that's a nice ass to play with), Leather, Bondage, Masturbation, Chinese Balls (I guess balacing one's pussy is important), Piercing, Dildos, Rubber, Vibrators, Handcuffs, Voyeurism, Whips, etc.

Gianna Lynn: Her Body & Art

Gianna Lynn is an Asian porn star originally from the Philippines. Gianna is part Filipino, part Spanish, and part Chinese (now that's a nice mixture). She has lived in California since she was 4 years old. In 2005, Gianna started working in the porn biz

Among other things, Gianna is known for her body art, being a fan of tatoos and piercing. She has a dragon tattoo on her hips and she made an appearance on the Miami Ink reality TV show in 2008 in which she added an angel tattoo (on  back of her neck). Here's her submission video for the show where she explains the tattoo she wants and why its important to her.

And here's a clip of Gianna getting inked on the show:

If you're into the tats, but would rather see Gianna in her more explicit action, you could check out Tattooed and Tight 2, an adult video in which Gianna talks about her tattoos and then shows them off by stripping and then taking on 2 guys. Her dragon tattoo is shown off beautifully when Gianna rides one guy reverse cowgirl while sucking the other dude's dick.
Gianna recently played the role of Yung Ho in Wicked Pictures Operation Tropical Stormy, a big-budget porn video (I have no idea what qualifies as big budget is porndom). In an interview, Gianna says she had to do some fight training and that she's been taking karate classes. The video even had a "professional stunt coordinator" (I guess they usually they use amateur stunt coordinators which could explain the lack of stunts other than an occasional cock crashing into a bystanding pussy or anus).

I don't mean to knock Gianna, but does anyone really watch porn for fight scenes or stunts? However, if a porn stunt man is needed for any scenes with Gianna, I'd gladly jump in.

 

Gianna also says she's thought about giving her website a reality type theme, commenting:

 "I know most people find the porn industry fascinating. They can't understand how somebody can be okay with having sex with random people on camera and it's very intriguing to them. My goal is to show people that we're humans too and we like to do things normal people do (She's saying this while getting her coffee from Starbucks). I want to show them that the stereotypes: drugs, partying, etc... isn't necessarily true."

Gianna - I'm not sure that's the king of reality we want from porn stars and in reality, reality television has little to do with reality. So I suggest stick to fucking and sucking on your website and leave the normal Starbucks stuff to the rest of us.

Gianna and her beautiful body art have appeared in many adult videos, most of which you can rent or buy here.