A man who came to his calling later in life, former travel agent Shigeo Tokuda entered his golden years and the porn industry at the same time. After more than 350 blue films, the 76-year-old is known as the “king of elder-porn,” a sub-genre of Japanese X-rated films in which seniors sex their youthful counterparts. John M. Glionna of the Los Angeles Times reports:

“Recently, Tokuda sat down at the offices of an adult film company to discuss life as one of Japan’s most veteran porn stars. Dressed in a blazer and casual shirt, he’s a slight man — about 5-foot-3, 140 pounds — who wears dentures and has a small but meandering Mikhail Gorbachev-type scar atop his balding head.

The Tokyo native was working in the travel promotion industry when he became a fan of order-in room porn flicks. Too shy to frequent adult movie stores, he tracked down the producers of his favorite DVDs. ‘At 59, I secretly hoped they would offer me some sort of senior discount,’ he recalls.

Tokuda befriended the firm’s producers, one of whom made him a proposition over drinks: Tokuda had a ‘lascivious’ face and was invited to try his hand at adult films.

In his first scene, filmmakers reduced the number of extras so Tokuda would feel less uncomfortable getting naked. His shyness quickly vanished along with his clothes, and he began slipping away from out-of-office travel company meetings to play porn actor. But after a 2005 stroke (not on the set, he says), he was moved to a desk job by his travel agency.

With no opportunity to slip out unnoticed, he retired — not from porn but from the travel industry. The rest, as they say, is Japanese porn history. Tokuda is now a brand name, with many projects bearing the Shigeo Tokuda moniker. A recent installment in his Forbidden Elderly Care series has been advertised with such slogans as ‘Don’t Be Ashamed of Getting Old!’ and ‘Lust Is Medicine.'” (Thanks Maginal Revolution.)