Jennifer Aniston was currently on a world tour promoting her newest movie. Right now she was in Japan, where she got invited to a popular TV show. It was supposedly somewhat like the Letterman show, and at least as popular in Japan as Letterman was in the US.
According to the assistant at the show who she had spoken to earlier, it was a great honor for her to be invited to the show. Her being a gaijin -- a foreigner. Apparently she was going to be the first American actress to appear on this show.
But that only confirmed to her that it was probably not a good idea to do this. No other respectable actress had done this so why should she? Maybe it was the truth that she had been the first American to be asked to appear on the show, but even so, the honor was very doubtful.
Her agent had come to her when they were planning the promotion tour and had told her about the offer very excitedly. He was convinced that it would be very good for her career. Japan was an important market for movies and this talk show had an enormous reach in the country. Therefore, if she gave a good interview, a success in Japan was almost guaranteed.
There was only one problem with this. According to what she was told, the show was very unique. Not at all like Letterman!
When her agent had told her vaguely what was expected of her, she had almost fired him on the spot. She was so angry that she wiped her agent's laptop from the desk between them. Only slowly was he able to calm her down.
"Look, I know this is very unusual. It's scandalous actually! But it would only be shown in Japan. And you know their culture is quite different than ours. Here it's apparently perfectly normal for an actress to perform these kinds of acts," he had explained.
"That doesn't mean that I have to do that!" She shouted at him.
"No, you don't. But you also know your success rate lately. It isn't too good! You need the publicity!"
She went quiet.
He was right. Her last few movies weren't big hits. In fact most of her publicity consisted of reports about her on-again-off-again boyfriends. No luck with movies. No luck with boyfriends either.
She needed to change her luck. And if this TV show could help her get the publicity needed to make her latest movie a hit? Maybe it was a necessary evil?
But it was so extreme! Even the little detail that her agent was able to tell her about the show sounded way too much for her. Apparently the show was very sexual in nature. And it would require some nudity from her. Something that was unthinkable on American TV! But here in Japan it seemed to be very normal.
She had watched a bit of TV during her brief stay so far. But she hadn't really seen any shows like the one she was supposed to appear on. Maybe it was only on certain weekdays? Or maybe she just hadn't found the right channel among the hundreds of channels that where available in her hotel room.
After a long talk and a few hours of crying alone in her hotel bed, she had finally agreed to at least talk to the assistant of the show. The assistant would tell her in more detail what was expected of her and would also arrange all the necessary preparations. One of those was a blood test.
What kind of show requires a test for STDs? -- she thought.
The assistant was a tiny Japanese girl of at most 20 years. She was spindly thin and a whole head shorter than Jennifer. She was cute though and had a very bubbly personality. When she came to Jennifer's hotel room the actress liked the girl immediately.
The girl's English was not perfect, but good enough for Jennifer to understand everything. Although at first she thought that she must have misunderstood some of the things the girl said.
"Bucka-what?" Jennifer asked.
"Buk-ka-ke," the girl repeated slowly. "It is the Japanese art of cum." She gave a crooked smile.
"What exactly does that mean?" Jennifer was very confused. Her agent had told her something about nudity, maybe showing her tits or something like that. But cum?
"Bukkake means that many men cum on girl," the assistant explained.
"Cum on?"
"Yes. They masturbate and then they shoot the cum on the girl. Mostly on the face."
"That's disgusting," Jennifer exclaimed. "Who would let people do that to them?"
"Well it is Japanese tradition," said Mitsumi - that was the assistant's name by the way. "Many famous actresses do this. It is expected!"
Jennifer had her doubts about that. But she didn't really know better. You rarely hear about other country's traditions on American news. So maybe Mitsumi was right.
"Okay, explain to me again what I would have to do on your show," she tried calmly.
Mitsumi laid it out: "You wear short skirt and a shirt. You go in studio when you get introduced to audience by host. You curtsy. Then you stand at the tall desk that is prepared for you. Then you answer questions of host. While you talk to host men will climb on desk and shoot cum on your face. You must not react to it. You must act everything is normal."
Jennifer was disgusted. "You expect me to let a number of strange men ejaculate on my face? On TV!? You must be crazy!"
"This is normal in Japan," Mitsumi replied. "Many American shows seem crazy to Japanese audience."
Well, I guess something like Jerry Springer must seem crazy to others, Jennifer mused.
"So I just stand there and talk to the host as if nothing strange where going on. And I get semen on my face?"
"Yes."
"How much? I mean how many men are we talking about?"
Mitsumi seemed to think a moment. "It depends."
"On what?"
"On how excited our guys get. At least thirty. Maybe more. As many we can get. And depends on how long interview. If host doesn't like you he not ask many questions. Interview short."
"And if he likes me?" Jennifer asked.
"Then he ask many questions. Interview will be long. Many men will have time to cum on you."
That seemed like a somewhat reverse logic to Jennifer.
"So I have to try to get him to not like me?"
"No!" Mitsumi cried. "You want publicity. You want people to like you. To go to your movie. So you must make host like you very much. Get as much time as you can. Host will like you, people will like you and go to your movie."
"I guess that makes some sense," Jennifer reluctantly admitted. "So all I have to do is stand there, answer questions and pretend nothing is happening while 30 men cum on my face?"
"And get sexed," Mitsumi said matter-of-factly.
"What?"
"After a while, one man will come behind you and have sex with you. That is what the test is for."
"You're saying that while all that other stuff is going on, someone will f-... will have sex with me from behind?" Jennifer couldn't believe it. It was getting more and more extreme for her liking.
"Yes. You pretend that nothing is happening. This very important! This part of tradition. You let the man do anything he wants. He have sex with you. He touch your boobs. He touch your pussy. You let him."
Jennifer was simply shaking her head slowly.
"When interview is over, maybe host will do something, too. You just let him do. You pretend nothing is happening. When he done and he say goodbye, you say 'Thank you' and make another curtsy and leave the studio. You not adjust your clothes!" Mitsumi was quite adamant.
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That was yesterday. Jennifer had thought about all that the assistant of the show -- Mitsumi -- had said. Also the arguments of her agent. She had talked to him again after she had regained some kind of composure after her chat with the Japanese girl.
He was a bit shocked at the extend of sexual display that was apparently expected of the guests on this particular show. And especially what was expected of Jennifer!
But he had explained to her again how important this show was and how important to her career this was. And her bank account! She hadn't exactly lived a simple life even though her earnings from previous successes like "Friends" had already been spent and her latest movies hadn't really made her that much money.
She desperately needed a success! And if this meant that she had to do this stupid show, she would do it!
Now that she stood backstage of the show she wasn't so sure anymore though. She was wearing a short dress similar to something she had worn as Rachel on "Friends" many years ago, when Rachel had worked as a waitress in the coffee shop. Mitsumi had given her the outfit. It was a good fit, but she felt very weird in it.
She felt even weirder when she thought about what she was about to do.
While she waited for her cue, she watched the monitor backstage that showed what was happening on stage. Similarly to a Letterman show, the host had begun by apparently telling a couple of jokes. Jennifer didn't know, because it was all in Japanese obviously, but the audience laughed a couple of times.
Now there was a music performance. A girl band was playing some Japanese pop song. But all the members of the band where "bottomless". That means they had normal clothes on except no skirt, no pants and no panties. You could clearly see their hairy pussies while they danced around to their music.
Definitely not like a Letterman show!
The audience loved it though.
"We have to pixel it later," Mitsumi whispered in Jennifer's ear.
"What?"
"The show not live. We have to pixel the image later. If we show it uncensored we go jail," she said.
Jennifer seemed to remember hearing about that. Japanese law weirdly required censoring pictures of women's and men's genitalia while allowing all kinds of disgusting acts otherwise. Even sex with animals!