Tokuda, who is married with two adult children and a grandchild, made his debut in 1994 after a meeting with a porn director in Tokyo.
"I was a fan of adult films and went directly to his office to ask if they'd got specific films in stock," he says. "He asked me there and then if I wanted to appear in a film. I immediately said no."
He soon changed his mind and at 59 in a hotel in western Tokyo he launched his acting career, playing the part of a company president with a roving eye.
"It was my first time, so they made sure there weren't too many people on the set. I held the camera myself, and the only other people in the room were my co-star, and the lighting and sound engineers."
So began his double life as a travel agent by day and a porn actor during downtime.
Other than changing his name – Shigeo Tokuda is his professional alias – his attempts to conceal his acting career from his family are surprisingly half-hearted. He had to confess to his daughter after she intercepted a fax offering him a scene that left little to the imagination. "She was speechless for a while," he says.