Today marks the birthday of one very busy adult actress, the incomparable Mika Tan. She has been a very enthusiastic performer in many projects and can claim to have left her mark with a distinctive personality. She was born in Honolulu (but I won’t dare to reveal on which year!), being a mix of Japanese and Taiwanese roots. Her birth name can’t be more charming: Saraswati Miyoko Kop Taetafa. As a Navy brat, she traveled all around the world at an early age and was soon kept busy as a child actor and doing commercials, along with theater work. Her university studies covered the fields of biochemistry and psychology, so there’s a bright little brain working in that gorgeous skull.

In college, Mika began earning some money by stripping or posing nude. She was soon discovered in a convenience store by director Jack Pearl and started in hardcore productions around 1999. Working in the adult business put an end to her first marriage, however. She also wed adult performer Alex Knight.

What distinguishes Mika from other female stars are her spectacular orgasms, oral skills (oh, you know what I mean) and a preference for fetish/bondage work, being comfortable in the latter as either a submissive or a dominatrix. She’s doesn’t mind taking fan orders for custom videos. Also, she’s producing films with an emphasis on quality scripts and no demeaning subjects, as her acting career is becoming less busy, by her own choice, as she keeps busy in many endeavors.

I’m lucky enough to have Mika included in my Friends List on Facebook, so miracles DO happen! Here’s to all the brainy and beautiful Asian artists that makes our world much better!

Isn’t there always an excuse to include a Monica Bellucci picture somewhere? She turns 44 today and I just have to pay respect to one of the great beauties of this financially troubled world.

50? 50? How do these gals do it? Miss Tilly has always been a favorite of mine and she’s looking better and better each day. She focuses more on her professional poker playing career these days, but who cares? I would certainly lose all my concentration going against her, right? The following photograph was taken at the 2008 Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival.

Another ageless beauty celebrating her birthday… one day after mine!

Closer and closer to the big 6-0, Pam Grier still looks absurdly young. Her movie schedule has slowed down a bit, but she can be seen in The L Word television series.

Another Cult Siren enjoys a birthday on this date, this time Sybil Danning gets to blow the candles (but how many, really?)!

I know that she’s the ultimate Batgirl, but for me Yvonne Craig was more alluring as a green-skinned alien in the original Star Trek series. Even at 72 today, she remains a youthful individual!

Legendary sex icon and fetish model Bettie Page turns 85 on this day. Her legacy and appeal are still impressive today… and will be for many ages to come.

Another ageless Bond Girl, Talisa Soto turns 41 today. Motherhood (two children with Benjamin Bratt) has been her principal occupation these last few years, so don’t pray right now for a sequel to Vampirella!

This is it, the last of four chapters for this amazing series starring Meiko Kaji as the title character. I conclude this small tribute on this very day, as star Meiko turns 61! Was this installment very necessary, considering how the previous episode ended? Well, no, to tell the truth. Sasori is still on the lam but will eventually find help with a technician that works in a strip joint. This guy has been crippled in the past by police brutality and is delighted to help someone who’s considered a fugitive of the law. Will Sasori find it in her bruised heart to trust a man? And is she really getting some? And how many movie screen characters how you seen kill an enemy using a flower? Watch out for these female prison guards, with awesome uniforms and boots giving us memories Ilsa, She-Wolf of the SS! And they don’t seem to mind watching prime beefcake in magazines, either!

With a new director, this movie has a couple of typical astonishing scenes with awesome color effects, but Yasuharu Hasebe is no Shunya Ito. I was also a bit disappointed that Sasori is involved in the needless and not so accidental death of a minor character, which is contrary to her character’s motivations. Still, she utters one of her longest monologue in the series (like, four or five consecutive sentences!).

Besides some reservation in the way the series was being treated (script, budget), this is still heads ahead of the majority of WiP offered worldwide, an unexpected haunting experience. The series would continue with different actresses beginning in 1976 with New Female Prisoner Scorpion 701, but with limited success.