was a Japanese softcore porn variety TV show broadcast from October 1991 to March 1998. Airing early Sunday mornings at 1:15 a.m. JST on TV Tokyo, the hour-long show helped launch the career of one of its late hosts, Ai Iijima, who afterwards moved into a more mainstream career.
Description Gilgamesh was a long-running example of the late-night sexy programming popular on Japanese television.
The show was in the format of a variety show. Segments included "Yashoku Banzai", a cooking corner with Yuuki Hitomi wearing just an apron; shiatsu with Jeff Furukawa; "Bathtub Cinema", in which a nude young woman in a bathtub reviewed a current film; and "No-Panty Pub Report", in which the television crew would visit a Tokyo bar featuring waitresses without undergarments.Hamamoto, Maki (2000). "The Boob Tube: A Report on Nippon Midnight Raunch". Asian Cult Cinema, #29 (4th Quarter, 2000), pp. 11–12.
Cast
Reiko Hayama Yuki Hitomi Fumie Hosokawa Shinobu Hosokawa Ai Iijima Kyosei Iwamoto (co-host) Asami Jō Anna Kazuki Rina Kitahara Akira Kiuchi Sena Matsuda Kei Mizutani Shoot Ogawa (1997) Kaori Ōhara Ijiri Okada Ayumi Sakurai Tamao Sato Masaya Yamazaki Nami Yasumuro
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