History Main / BodySushi

* Certain high-end strip clubs and sushi restaurants in North America are known to arrange this. Bring your wallet. Among those places are Geishahouse in Las Vegas and Nakedsushi in Toronto, Canada.

* In the fourth episode of ''Manga/InterspeciesReviewers'', a Salamander fire spirit girl is shown running a racier version of this, where she uses her body heat to cook food while enhancing the flavour with her mana, and also permits her customers to get handsy with her. She also offers extra services, but only someone fire-resistant (like Crim) can enjoy ''that'' without being cooked themselves.

* China has [[BannedInChina outlawed this practice]] as unsanitary.
* When performed in the West, many feminists have protested it, and some Japanese people feel embarrassed by it.

* In ''Series/UnbreakableKimmySchmidt'', a {{Cloudcuckoolander}} ]] offered to set up dinner while Jackie and Kimmy talked. Moments later, they realize she had laid herself up in this method. Later, she complains she received a rash from it.

* An episode of ''Series/{{CSI NY}}'' has the VictimOfTheWeek turn out to have been poisoned at one of these. [[spoiler:The perpetrator was a young woman serving as a table; she had previously been a personal assistant to the victim, who fired her for refusing her sexual advances and then [[AssholeVictim used her connections to ensure that the young woman couldn't find work anywhere else in their industry.]] When the victim learned that [[spoiler:her former PA was working at the sushi restaurant, she began to specifically request her and continued to sexually harass her.]] Unable to refuse the customer out of fear of being fired, [[spoiler:the former PA laced her toenail polish with blowfish venom; a chip of the nail polish was found in the victim's mouth and determined to be the cause of death.]]

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* In ''Webcomic/{{Nepetaquest 2011}}'', Zander says it's in his job description (the eating part, not the lying down part).

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* ''Film/Bruno2009'', in the scene where Brüno is interviewing Paula Abdul. He has sushi on top of a naked fat, hairy Mexican wheeled into the room. Paula Abdul leaves, clearly disgusted.

* In ''Series/ThirtyRock'', Tracy holds a business function and has sushi served on Kenneth - the wasabi is kept in his mouth.

-->'''Tommy:''' Do you like sushi? Have you ever had anyone eat some off of you? I promise not to use chopsticks.
-->'''Laurel:''' ''(WalkInChimeIn)'' Are you still using that line? ''(woman pulls a face and vanishes)'' Well, it looks like I scared her off.
-->'''Tommy:''' Oh, that's all right--she's vegan, anyway.
* ''Series/TheBoldAndTheBeautiful'': Brooke does this for her lover Ridge.

* An episode of ''Series/{{CSI NY}}'' has the VictimOfTheWeek turn out to have been poisoned at one of these. [[spoiler: The perpetrator was a young woman serving as a table; she had previously been a personal assistant to the victim, who fired her for refusing her sexual advances and then [[AssholeVictim used her connections to ensure that the young woman couldn't find work anywhere else in their industry.]] When the victim learned that [[spoiler: her former PA was working at the sushi restaurant, she began to specifically request her and continued to sexually harass her.]] Unable to refuse the customer out of fear of being fired, [[spoiler: the former PA laced her toenail polish with blowfish venom; a chip of the nail polish was found in the victim's mouth and determined to be the cause of death.]]

* ''Series/TheSurrealLife'' was a reality show featuring has-been celebrities living together. One episode showed [[Film/AustinPowers Verne Troyer]] eating sushi off the naked body of a celebrity from ''Series/AmericasNextTopModel''. She was not happy when he decided to [[ThanksForTheMammaries cop a feel]].

* In ''Series/UnbreakableKimmySchmidt'', a [[CloudCuckooLander character]] offered to set up dinner while Jackie and Kimmy talked. Moments later, they realize she had laid herself up in this method. Later, she complains she received a rash from it.

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* Western counterparts to this trope include serving food from trays [[LittlePeopleAreSurreal carried on little people's heads]] (a practice which appeared in ''Film/TheThreeMusketeers1973'', and which Music/{{Queen}} reportedly did with trays of ''cocaine'' at a party) and Lady Caroline Lamb's alleged stunt of emerging naked from an enormous soup tureen at a banquet.

-->'''Tommy:''' Oh, that's all right, she's vegan, anyway.

* In the fourth episode of ''Manga/InterspeciesReviewers'', a Salamander fire spirit girl is shown running a racier version of this, where she uses her body heat to cook food while enhancing the flavour with her mana, and also permits her customers to get handsy with her. She also offers extra services, but only someone fire resistant (like Crim) can enjoy ''that'' without being cooked themselves.
* In ''LightNovel/{{Kanokon}}'', Chizuru gets into a body-sized sushi boat naked in attempt to hit on Kouta.

* Momoko in the manga version of ''Manga/SumomoMoMomoMo'' at one point manages to prepare herself in this style and put herself under a creche for Koushi. Unfortunately for her and her desires to seduce him, he slams the creche back down over her immediately.

* The Spanish movie ''Film/MapOfTheSoundsOfTokyo'' depict nyotaimori in one scene.

* ''Film/RisingSun'' has a scene in which a yakuza performs this moments before Creator/SeanConnery and Creator/WesleySnipes' character busts him.

* In ''Series/ThirtyRock'', Tracy holds a business function and has sushi served on Kenneth - the wasabi is kept in his mouth.
** In season 6, episode 16, Tracy is trying to de-geek his son in a montage - one of the activities is eating french fries, burgers, and chicken nuggets off of a naked woman in this manner.

* ''VideoGame/WatchDogs'': Just in the trailer, but the scene is supposed to represent the vulgarity of the building it appears in. Then it gets WORSE.

* In ''WesternAnimation/ClerksTheAnimatedSeries'', Randall recounts being married to a Japanese business man, who had him do this.

* In ''LightNovel/{{Kanokon}}'', Chizuru gets into a body-sized sushi boat naked in attempt to hit on Kouta.

* In the fourth episode of ''Manga/HenZemi'', Mizukoshi acts as a nyotaimori gathering where it shows various food on her body.

* Shiro foams at the mouth in disgust in ''Manga/{{Adekan}}'' when he is offered BodySushi off a drag queen.
* The {{hentai}} ''Ryokan Shirasagi'' (English: ''Swallowtail Inn'') takes place in a restaurant that specializes in this.
* In the fourth episode of ''Manga/InterspeciesReviewers'', a Salamander fire spirit girl is shown running a racier version of this, where she uses her body heat to cook food while enhancing the flavour with her mana, and also permits her customers to get handsy with her. She also offers extra services, but only someone fire resistant (like Crim) can enjoy ''that'' without being cooked themselves.

* The Brandon Lee and Creator/DolphLundgren film ''Film/ShowdownInLittleTokyo'' depicts a private yakuza party, complete with Nyotaimori. Murata promises Kenner that they'll do the same after they get revenge for his parents.

* The ''Film/SexAndTheCity'' movie has a scene in which Samantha does this as a Valentine's Day present for her lover.
* ''Film/RisingSun'' has a scene in which a yakuza performs this moments before Creator/SeanConnery and Creator/WesleySnipes' character busts him.

* Happens in ''Film/{{Tampopo}}'' between a yakuza and his wife.

* ''Film/{{WAR}}'' with Creator/JasonStatham and Creator/JetLi also has a body sushi scene involving, what else, gangsters.
* ''Film/SushiGirl'': the title character in the 2012 Creator/MarkHamill film is a body sushi girl who serves at a reunion of thieves. She becomes a ChekhovsGunman in the end.

* ''Series/TheSurrealLife'' was a reality show featuring has-been celebrities living together. One episode showed [[Film/AustinPowers Verne Troyer]] eating sushi off the naked body of a celebrity from ''America's Next Top Model''. She was not happy when he decided to [[ThanksForTheMammaries cop a feel]].
** The last season turned the series into a reality gameshow with many celebs returning, including Troyer. They had the cast sit down with both a man and woman nantaimori/nyotaimori respectively. Learning his lesson from the previous episode, Troyer decided not to get frisky.
* An episode of ''Series/{{CSI NY}}'' has the VictimOfTheWeek turn out to have been poisoned at one of these. [[spoiler: The perpetrator was a young woman serving as a table; she had previously been a personal assistant to the victim, who fired her for refusing her sexual advances and then [[AssholeVictim used her connections to ensure that the young woman couldn't find work anywhere else in their industry.]] When the victim learned that [[spoiler: her former PA was working at the sushi restaurant, she began to specifically request her and continued to sexually harass her.]] Unable to refuse the customer out of fear of being fired, [[spoiler: the former PA laced her toenail polish with blowfish venom; a chip of the nail polish was found in the victim's mouth and determined to be the cause of death.]]
* In ''Series/RegencyHousePary'' One of the young ladies does this in homage to Lady Caroline Lamb.

* An episode of ''Series/ComeDineWithMe'', a host serves a starter of sushi to his guests in the Nantaimori fashion.

* ''Series/ThirtyRock'' - Tracy holds a business function and has sushi served on Kenneth - the wasabi is kept in his mouth.
** In season 6, episode 16, Tracy is trying to de-geek his son in a montage - one of the activities is eating french fries, burgers, and chicken nuggets off of a naked woman in this manner.

* ''Series/TheBoldAndTheBeautiful'': Brooke does this for her lover Ridge.

* The title character in ''Series/{{Mandy}}'' gets a job doing this. She doesn't even last a whole meal before getting fired for talking to the diners... [[MustHaveNicotine and smoking]].
* ''Series/{{Arrow}}''. Tommy Merlyn has a liking for this trope, but it's just done as a couple of throwaway lines to establish him as a playboy billionaire.
-->'''Tommy:''' Do you like sushi? Have you ever had anyone eat some off of you? I promise not to use chopsticks.
-->'''Laurel:''' ''(WalkInChimeIn)'' Are you still using that line? ''(woman pulls a face and vanishes)'' Well, it looks like I scared her off.
-->'''Tommy:''' Oh, that's all right, she's vegan, anyway.

* A variant appears in the (''very'' {{NSFW}} and obviously, non-canon) ''DeathNote'' {{Yaoi}} game ''Bound Prince.'' Instead of sushi, little cakes are used.
* [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] in ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'' by [[OurMermaidsAreDifferent Nami]] in the recall animation for her SKT T1 skin. Instead of laying sushi on her body, she summons up a bed of sushi rice on a serving tray and, being a mermaid, lays herself on it to ''become'' sushi. Then she takes selfies of herself from a number of angles using her staff like a selfie stick, until a giant pair of chopsticks picks her up and carries her off.

* Played for laughs in ''Webcomic/MenageA3'': in one omake Zii and Didi are eating sushi on a nude girl, when suddenly Zii realize that something's wrong... [[ComicallyMissingThePoint the girl they're eating on is not Japanese but Korean!]]
* Played for HypocriticalHumor in the second strip of ''Webcomic/TwoGuysAndGuy'': The trio eats such a meal while discussing that other people are perverts with weird fetishes.

* ''WesternAnimation/FriskyDingo'' had an episode in which the BigBad eats sushi this way while interrogating the protagonists.

* ''Series/{{Arrow}}''. Tommy Merlyn has a liking for this trope, but it's just done as a throwaway line to establish him as a playboy billionaire. Certainly when he brings sushi to Laurel Lance he doesn't express any desire to eat it off her naked body, but that's probably because [[LadykillerInLove he's trying to convince her he's changed his hedonistic ways.]]

* ''Series/{{Arrow}}''. Tommy Merlyn has a liking for this trope, but it's just done as a throwaway line to establish him as a playboy billionaire. Certainly when he brings sushi for Laurel Lance, he doesn't express any desire to eat it off her naked body, but that's probably because [[LadykillerInLove he's trying to convince her he's changed his hedonistic ways.]]

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Body Sushi is the English term for nyotaimori or nantaimori. Nyotaimori or "female body presentation" comes from Japan and is the act of eating sushi off the body of a nude woman. The [[SpearCounterpart male version]], Nantaimori, does exist but it's not as common.

As one might guess, this is often a form of FanService. Expect it in works that want to convey a sense of [[ForeignFanservice erotic mystery concerning Japan]]. {{Yakuza}} are often involved as well. It should be noted, however, that the practice is not nearly as mainstream in Japanese culture as some may think. Plus, as any chef can tell you, it's hardly hygienic.

* Certain high-end strip clubs and sushi restaurants in North America are known to arrange this. Bring your wallet.
** Among those places are Geishahouse in Las Vegas and Nakedsushi in Toronto, Canada.
* China has [[BannedInChina outlawed this practice]] as unsanitary.

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-->--'''Jack Herbert''', ''Japan for the Uninvited''

Body Sushi is the English word for nyotaimori or nantaimori. Nyotaimori or "female body presentation" comes from Japan and is the act of eating sushi off the body of a nude woman. The [[SpearCounterpart male version]], Nantaimori, does exist but it's not as common.

* The {{Hentai}} ''Ryokan Shirasagi'' (English: ''Swallowtail Inn'') takes place in a restaurant that specializes in this.
* In the 4th episode of ''Manga/InterspeciesReviewers'', a Salamander fire spirit girl is shown running a racier version of this, where she uses her body heat to cook food while enhancing the flavour with her mana, and also permits her customers to get handsy with her. She also offers extra services, but only someone fire resistant (like Crim) can enjoy ''that'' without being cooked themselves.

[[folder:Live Action TV]]

* ''Film/{{Bruno}}'', in the scene where Brüno is interviewing Paula Abdul. He has sushi on top of a naked fat, hairy Mexican wheeled into the room. Paula Abdul leaves, clearly disgusted.

* The title character in ''Series/{{Mandy}}'' gets a job doing this, from which she almost immediately gets fired for talking to the diners... [[MustHaveNicotine and smoking]].

* An apocryphal tale credits Lady Caroline Lamb as having done this.
* Certain high-end strip clubs and sushi restaurants in the US are known to arrange this. Bring your wallet.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Harley Quinn 2019}}; the Joker mentions he and Harley did this with Commissioner Gordon as the platter. [[{{Squick}} The Joker laughs that he spent a week picking hair out of his teeth. ]]

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Harley Quinn 2019}}; the Joker mentions he and Harley did this with Commissioner Gordon as the platter. [[{{Squik}} The Joker laughs that he spent a week picking hair out of his teeth. ]]

* An episode of ''Series/{{CSI NY}}'' has the VictimOfTheWeek turn out to have been poisoned at one of these. [[spoiler: The perpetrator was a young woman serving as one of the tables; she had previously been a personal assistant to the victim, who fired her for refusing her sexual advances and then [[AssholeVictim used her connections to ensure that the young woman couldn't find work anywhere else in their industry.]] ]] When the victim learned that [[spoiler: her former PA was working at the sushi restaurant (the only place she was able to find work), she began to specifically request her and continued to sexually harass her (the victim would drag pieces of sushi down the young woman's body down to her toes and then suggestively eat the sushi off them).]] Unable to refuse the customer out of fear of being fired, [[spoiler: the former PA laced her toenail polish with blowfish venom; a chip of the nail polish was found in the victim's mouth and determined to be the cause of death.]]

* In ''Manga/InterspeciesReviewers'' a salamander girl uses her body heat for cooking.