Tristan Risk
Dancers

Tristan Risk

I‘ll admit, I’d never heard of Tristan Risk until I saw the movie American Mary, in which she played Beatress Johnson (yes, “Beatress,” not “Beatrice”), a stripper who had 14 surgeries to become a real-life Betty Boop look-alike.

Calamity Chang
Dancers

Calamity Chang

When American burlesque was in its heyday, Asian striptease performers were practically unheard of. However, with the emergence of “neo-burlesque” in the mid-1990s, a few Asian ladies have taken to the stage, doing the retro “bump ‘n grind” acts. One

TV Shows

Pink Lady

Pink Lady was a popular Japanese singing duo comprised of Mie (Mitsuyo Nemoto) and Kei (Keiko Masuda), who will always be best remembered (in the US, anyway) for their very short-lived 1980 NBC TV show Pink Lady (aka Pink Lady and Jeff).

Tristan Risk as Beatress
Feature Films

The Ladies of American Mary

If you like movies where only and all the female characters are off the deep end, this gem from Jen & Sylvia Soska is one not to miss. Of special note is Tristan Risk’s bizarre Betty Boop-like stripper, Beatress Johnson and Paula Lindberg’s Ruby Realgirl.

Waveya
Dancers

Korean Dance Team Waveya

Most Korean female vocal groups work with choreographers to develop dance routines they perform to their songs that they’ve recorded in the studio. However, it’s no secret that when on stage, they usually lip-sync so they can focus more on

Coco Komatsu
Hooters Girls

Coco Komatsu

Born and raised in Tokyo, import model Noriko “Coco” Komatsu was brought to my attention by another very talented lady, model, artist, and designer April Syrup, whom I had the pleasure of interviewing last year Coco began her modeling career


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BJ Mina
Bloggers/Vloggers

Korean Broadcast Jockeys

Known as “BJs” (yes, I know but, I’m not sure they do), these sexy webcam dancers have been heating up Korean cyberspace through P2P video streaming sites like afreeca.com and winktv.co.kr for the last few years, but some particularly notable