Shigeo Tokuda, a former travel agent, is enjoying his “second life” after retirement. 74-year-old Tokuda is a porn star.
“I retired and didn’t have anything to do,” says Tokuda, a former 9 to 5 travel agent. “This is my second life. I don’t know how long I can keep living, but I want to enjoy the rest of it.”
Gaichi Kono, an adult video director who has worked with Tokuda, says the actor is a superstar in his generation. “He encourages older people to think, I can do this because that old man can do this.”
Ruby Productions, the Japanese company that produces Tokuda’s movies, says it is targeting the elderly audience and is considering selling videos in retirement homes.
The adult film star, who lives with his wife of 44-years and their daughter, uses the screen name Shigeo Tokuda and prefers not to disclose his real name because his wife and daughter have no clue he has starred in over 350 porn movies over the past 14 years.
Given that his films have become so popular that his name is now a brand, and his story has been featured on CNN and Time, the days of his double life may quickly be coming to an end.
Tokuda says he hopes to work until he’s 80 or older, giving it his all, he says, until the end – which may come sooner than he’d like once his wife finds out.
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