Japanese Kids' Superhero in Hardcore Gay Flick
Kids' superhero getting bum rap over gay porn film
MSN News/Mainichi Daily News
February 3, 2005

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An article in the Shukan Jitsuwa Magazine reports one of the star's of TV Tokyo's popular children's superhero program "Cho Seikantai Sazer X (Starship Command Sazer X)" is suspected of having appeared in a hardcore gay sex movie.

Instead of skyrocketing around the Universe, the thespian playing the galactic superhero -- who can't be named for legal reasons -- has reportedly been in flicks where the actors hover around Uranus and give an entirely new meaning to the phrase, "Beam me up, Scotty."

"The guy at the center of the allegations is one of the newer superheroes on the cast. He's tanned, well built and loves surfing. He used to be part of an all-boy song-and-dance unit, too," a reporter for a sports newspaper tells Shukan Jitsuwa.

"There's this homosexual erotic video with a surf lifesaver theme and one of the actors in it really, really looks like the guy in the superhero show. Everybody in (Tokyo's gay quarter of) Shinjuku Ni-Chome is talking about it."

This actor whose resemblance to the TV superhero is so close that few have doubts about his true identity appeared in a movie called "Japan Surf Rescue: The Complete Edition."

"It's a movie about sporty types of guys. All the actors in it are fairly well built. Some of the actors show their handiwork, while others display their oral skills, but what really left an impression was that the man who looks so like the superhero got down on all fours and played hide the sausage," a man who has seen the movie in question tells the lowbrow men's weekly.

Japan's online world is abuzz with the rumor and TV Tokyo has apparently been flooded with inquiries about the story. In fact, the actor playing the superhero has been at the center of a gay sex video rumor before.

"When he was picked up as a regular for the superhero show in September last year, people started asking around about whether he'd been in the homosexual movie. He was running an official Web site at the time, but so many people mailed in to complain about it, he had to shut it down," the sports reporter says.

"The case was certainly a hot topic - at least within the industry."

While Japan's parents fret that the fighting superhero their kids adore has also appeared in a hardcore movie being battered about the ring.