VISIT the OLD SITE: https://www.japansm.com/old-site/
I don’t normally like to keep it up as an archive, but i’ve made the old site available again for informational purposes.
There are a TON of picture previews for titles found on that site that haven’t been added to the current site.
The old site only has DVDs that were added/released before November 2023.
It also has ALL the missing actress info that wasn’t added to the new site.
EVERYTHING on the old site can be purchased on the new site.
When searching try typing out the catalog number without the dash first. Try “DDM004” and then “DDM-004”.
I imported all the DVDs to the new database based on DVD cover file names!
It saved me from manually typing out 15-20k products!
The old site used HTML5 and CSS. There was no database I could just import to get all the actress names etc.
If you recall, the old site was perfectly fine except that my old shopping cart provider’s shopping cart stopped working properly.
I practically begged for them to fix it but they refused and claimed it was fine.
I basically had to start a new site over from scratch!
Plus the hardest part is I had absolutely NO CLUE how to use WordPress or any newer Ecommerce software.
I learned it all by Youtube videos!
I’ve had a bit of nostalgia today of running the site for so many years.
I started back in 2002 with a single page selling bukkake videos.
Due to my interest in that content, the site just kept growing and growing.
I slowly invested in it and upgraded all it’s equipment.
It’s hard to believe, but now we have 20,000 DVDs available!
I’ve been a bit discouraged lately. Physical Media isn’t as popular as it once was.
It’s not dead. Like me, there are still a TON of people who love and PREFER physical media!
I just don’t think it’s possible to keep the site going for another 5 years without offering some sort of digital downloads.