h.m.p. Co., Ltd. (株式会社h.m.p, Kabushiki gaisha h.m.p), formerly known as Houyuu Media Produce (芳友メディアプロデ), is a Japanese company which is involved in adult entertainment including the production and sales of adult videos (AV) and the marketing of adult toys and sex aids.
Company information
The company, headquartered in the Bunkyo ward of Tokyo, was founded in 1981 under the name Samm (サムビデオ, Samu Bideo), making it one of Japan's oldest adult video firms. The Samm label's name was taken from S&M and that genre dominated the company's videos in the early 1980s but the direction changed in the mid-1980s under the influence of three directors, Kaoru Toyoda, Ryutaro Kanno and Yukihiko Shimamura. In 1984 the Miss Christine label was created for videos with single featured actresses. The Tiffany label came later and was made popular by actress Hikaru Hoshino.
Among early AV actresses who performed for h.m.p. were Keiko Nakazawa who appeared for the Samm label with the video Pakkeeji Zenmen o Hyōji released in 1986, Rena Murakami, who debuted on the company's Miss Christine label in March 1988, and AV Idol Yumika Hayashi who made her debut with the Miss Christine video Shigamitsuku 18-sai: ojōsama wa shitanai in June 1989. In the decade of the 1990s, Maiko Yūki also made her debut with h.m.p.'s Miss Christine label.
Bringing his own particular style was former pink film director and screenwriter Shuji Kataoka who joined the company in the early 1990s. Another influential director at h.m.p. was Company Matsuo who made videos with the studio starting in 1996 while he was still primarily working for V&R Planning.
At the beginning of 2010, h.m.p. had a capital of 100 million yen (about $1 million). Their official website h.m.p.online sells a variety of goods including adult DVDs (some on Blu-ray), downloadable video content and adult toys. The website also contains a valuable database of over 3700 h.m.p. titles which can be searched by title, series, genre, media and date.