Movie Guide Deals With the ‘Bare Facts’ : Video: A detailed compilation of every time an actor or actress disrobes allows viewers to easily locate nude scenes.

Craig Hosoda has the answer for those who seem invariably to ask of every movie, “Is there any nudity in it?”

“The Bare Facts Video Guide,” edited and published by Hosoda, is a meticulously researched, 964-page book that helps viewers locate the nude scenes of their favorite celebrities on videotape.

“It’s mostly for men,” acknowledged Hosoda, adding that only about 2% of his customers are women. “Men like looking at naked women a lot more than women like looking at naked men.”

Still, more than 1,000 actors are listed in the guide, along with about 2,500 actresses and 2,700 films. The guide includes no photographs and does not list X-rated films.

Entries for the actors and actresses list all of their film and television credits, including the names of the characters they played. The films in which they have disrobed are highlighted, followed by Hosoda’s rating of the scene (on a scale of one to three stars), when in the film it occurs and a straightforward description of what is uncovered.

For example, Sherilyn Fenn’s nude scenes in 1988’s “Two Moon Junction,” which is one of the author’s favorite movies, are described this way:

“*** 0:07--Topless taking a shower in the country club shower room.

“** 0:42--Topless in gas station restroom changing camisole tops with Kristy McNichol.

“* 0:54--Brief topless making love with Perry (Richard Tyson) in a motel room.

“*** 1:24--Nude, at Two Moon Junction making love with Perry. Very hot!

“* 1:40--Brief left breast and buns in the shower with Perry.”

The recounting of what is uncovered by Kevin Costner in 1990’s “Dances With Wolves” is equally succinct:

“** 0:37--Brief buns, while washing his clothes in the pond.

“*** 0:40--Buns, while standing by himself after scaring away Kicking Bird.”

Film critic Leonard Maltin, in an interview with the San Jose Mercury News, said of Hosoda’s work: “It’s so incredibly obsessive, one can only marvel at it.”

And Movieline magazine wrote: “What elevates this compendium to a higher level is the care that has gone into the thumbnail descriptions of the nude scenes.”

Hosoda, who first published the guide in 1989 and is currently working on the sixth edition, said that, although one letter writer called him a pimp, he has been left alone by religious groups and others who might find such a book objectionable.

Last November, though, he received a surprise visit from two Secret Service agents at his San Jose home. A copy of his book, the agents told him, had been found in the back of a truck owned by Francisco Martin Duran, who had been arrested in October after allegedly firing more than two dozen bullets at the White House.

Hosoda, 35, explained to them that the guide was nothing more than what it appeared to be, and they each walked off with an autographed copy.

Hosoda, a husband and father of two, first conceived of his book 10 years ago. As a computer programmer at Industrial Light & Magic studios in Marin County, he was working on “Howard the Duck” when a co-worker asked about Lea Thompson, one of the film’s stars.

After telling him that only a few nights earlier he had seen Thompson in a nude scene in “All the Right Moves,” Hosoda realized that others might want to know this about the actress.

After starting work on the book in 1988, he published the first edition a year later.

Hosoda declined to discuss sales figures, but the guide has sold well enough that the UC Berkeley graduate has worked full time on it since quitting his job in 1990.

“If it didn’t make money the first year, I’m sure my wife would have put her foot down and said, ‘Craig, this seems more like a hobby than a business,’ ” he said. “But, fortunately, there are a lot of people out there who are interested in this kind of stuff.”

The author, who is working on a CD-ROM version of the guide, has two VCRs with real-time counters, enabling him to fast-forward to the nude scenes without losing his place in the movie.

“If it’s got sparse nudity, I can watch a movie in half an hour,” he said. “But if it’s one of those women-in-prison movies, where there’s a cast of about 20 women and there’s always the gratuitous shower scene, I’ve got to watch it in real time and slow it down to figure out who’s who.

“Those are a lot of work, but somebody’s got to do it.”