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The X CITY website advertises itself as the "Biggest Adult Site in Japan!". The site charges a monthly flat fee for access to its services which include photographs, video clips and a streaming movie library from several AV companies. The website is run by a separate Kuki-owned corporation, Alchemia
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In the spring of 1995 Kuki started a website, www.kuki.co.jp, which eventually became X CITY. Some six months later, the web services division became a separate company, Alchemia Inc. (株式会社アルケミア). An
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who resided in Japan from 1982 to 1986. Nakagawa offered to produce a series of commercial adult videos through Kuki which were written, directed and edited by Duncan under the name John See. Duncan looked on the experience as an experiment and an attempt to stretch the stereotypical boundaries of
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The site was originally launched as www.kuki.co.jp in 1995 under Chief
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adult film. For Kuki, which may not have recouped their investment in the videos, it was good publicity. Reviews were mixed, those viewing them as art were positive but those looking at them strictly as hardcore porn were quite negative.
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on-demand AV became available at the site in
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on softer aspects of
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which awarded various prizes to actresses and videos in companies associated with the Kuki group. The site also contains an extensive searchable database of
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