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Mihiro
, real name , is a Japanese actress, singer, fiction writer, TV entertainer (notices artist) and former adult video (AV) actress. Life and career Mihiro was born in Niigata prefecture on May 19, 1982. She began a career as a softcore nude model as early as May 2001 when her video ''Dream'' (どりーむ) was released followed by the publication of the similarly named photobook ''Dream'' (夢) in August 2002. She appeared in a number of other softcore nude modeling videos and photobooks over the next year and a half. Mihiro also acted in several softcore V-Cinema productions during this time including the 2003 comedy directed by Naoyuki Tomomatsu. and Kōji Kawano's 2004 . She was also featured as a singer in a J-Pop Maxi single titled ''Sunflower'' (ヒマワリ) for Dream Robot in October 2004. AV debut – Alice Japan & MAX-A Mihiro made her transition from nude model to AV actress in January 2005 when Alice Japan released her debut adult video ''Little Angel''. A month later ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cruel Restaurant
, real name , is a Japanese actress, singer, fiction writer, TV entertainer (notices artist) and former adult video (AV) actress. Life and career Mihiro was born in Niigata prefecture on May 19, 1982. She began a career as a softcore nude model as early as May 2001 when her video ''Dream'' (どりーむ) was released followed by the publication of the similarly named photobook ''Dream'' (夢) in August 2002. She appeared in a number of other softcore nude modeling videos and photobooks over the next year and a half. Mihiro also acted in several softcore V-Cinema productions during this time including the 2003 comedy directed by Naoyuki Tomomatsu. and Kōji Kawano's 2004 . She was also featured as a singer in a J-Pop Maxi single titled ''Sunflower'' (ヒマワリ) for Dream Robot in October 2004. AV debut – Alice Japan & MAX-A Mihiro made her transition from nude model to AV actress in January 2005 when Alice Japan released her debut adult video ''Little Angel''. A month later ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zombie Self-Defense Force
is a 2006 Japanese zombie comedy directed by Naoyuki Tomomatsu, written by Naoyuki Tomomatsu and Masami Teranishi, and starring Miyû Watase, Mihiro, Kenji Arai, Yû Machimura, Masayuki Hase, and Norman England. Mihiro plays a spoiled pop singer who barricades herself in a hotel with several soldiers during a zombie outbreak. Plot On a routine training exercise, soldiers from the Japan Self-Defense Forces encounter a UFO that releases strange radiation on a town. When the inhabitants turn into zombies, the soldiers and several survivors, including a spoiled pop singer, barricade themselves in a hotel and attempt to survive the assault. Cast * Miyû Watase as Yuri Aso * Mihiro as Hitomi * Kenji Arai as Captain * Yû Machimura * Masayuki Hase * Norman England * Jun Yamasaki as Hayakawa Release ''Zombie Self-Defense Force'' premiered at Dead by Dawn in Edinburgh on April 23, 2006. It was released on DVD in Japan on April 25, 2006. ADV Films released it in the United St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akiho Yoshizawa
, often known simply as Acky (あっきー), is a Japanese former adult video (AV) actress, who also appeared in pink film and mainstream (non-erotic) film, as well as television. With a career spanning over more than 15 years and over 1,000 adult film appearances, Yoshizawa was widely renowned as one of the most famous and recognizable faces in Japanese adult entertainment, with an appeal that managed to cross over into mainstream entertainment. She started her AV career in 2003 with the companies Alice Japan and Max-A, and in 2007 she transitioned to studios Maxing and S1 No. 1 Style appearing along with other famous AV actresses like Yuma Asami, Mihiro, Sola Aoi or Megu Fujiura. She was also a member of the idol group Ebisu Muscats between 2008 and 2013. Yoshizawa announced her retirement from AV in late 2018, and her final adult films were released in March 2019. Life and career AV debut—Alice Japan & Max-A Yoshizawa was born in Tokyo, Japan on March 3, 1984 and made her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tina Yuzuki
, also known as Rio, is a Japanese actress, singer and former AV idol who debuted as an AV actress in 2005, appearing in videos produced by the Max-A and S1 studios. After starring in AVs in various genres during her first year in the industry, she won an industry award as Best New Actress for 2006. Since late 2007, she has used the stage name of Rio. In 2009, she transferred to IdeaPocket and became one of the studio's most prominent actresses. After a career that spanned over a decade and nearly 500 adult films, she retired in January 2016. Life and career AV debut and Max-A (2005–07) Tina Yuzuki was born in Tokyo on October 29, 1986. Her mother is Portuguese and her father is Japanese. She learned to speak Portuguese from her mother. Yuzuki made her adult video (AV) debut at age nineteen in the November 2005 release for Max-A's Calen label, ''Hot Wind'', The director of Yuzuki's premier video uses the name 'Toshio' and he continued to work with the actress in many of her ear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sora Aoi
is a Japanese former AV idol, nude model, and film and television actress. Starring in more than 600 adult films between 2002 and 2011, Aoi is widely considered one of the most famous AV idols of the 2000s, with her popularity as an adult video actress leading to celebrity status as a media personality both in Japan and abroad. Life and career Early life and AV debut Sora Aoi was born on April 26, 1981, in Kanagawa. As a student, she worked at various part-time jobs in the food-service industry, such as pizza parlors, pubs and sushi bars with the intent of becoming a pre-school teacher. While in her third year in high school, Aoi was scouted in Shibuya by a talent agency for gravure modelling. She decided to enter the adult entertainment industry with the aim of eventually working on TV and in other parts of the entertainment industry, stating that "If there was only the AV industry, I couldn't do it." When asked how her stage name was chosen, Aoi explained: "My agency asked ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hideto Aki
is a Japanese adult video (AV) director who has directed more than 300 movies since 1998. Life and career Hideto Aki was born in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan in 1970. He tells how AV Idol Hitomi Kobayashi came to his neighborhood video rental shop when he was 17 and he shook hands with her and more than 10 years later he still remembered how small and cute her hand was. He said about the event (in his 1999 "Diary"): "At the time I didn't even imagine that I would do this kind of work. Now, I can't imagine doing anything else." Although he says he always enjoyed pink films, especially the "Four Devils" (or "Four Heavenly Kings of Pink"), he is doubtful about trying to use dramatic stories in AV. He prefers to work in the documentary style much used in Japanese porn, feeling that fiction and sex don't mix well ("If so, it is better owatch pink cinema"). He says he has to do it sometimes when the production side wants it or if they are using a famous actress but he describes dramat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maxing
is a Japanese adult video (AV) studio and production company located in the Shibuya ward of Tokyo. Company information Maxing is an independent adult video firm which specializes in videos for sale rather than rental. The Maxing studio was founded in 2006 and released its first set of videos on October 16, 2006. An early coup for the company was the signing of AV Idol Akiho Yoshizawa who had become available in October 2006. Her first video, ''Sell Debut Love Acky'' was one of the premiere set of Maxing videos offered in October 2006. Another success was bringing back Naho Ozawa from retirement and her first video with Maxing, ''Naho Ozawa Encore'', was also part of the October 2006 releases. The company releases about 15 new videos per month and by September 2011, DMM, the video sales and distribution arm of the Hokuto Corporation, listed nearly 700 DVD titles under the Maxing name. In addition to DVD products, by April 2008 the company also began producing videos on Blu-ray dis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naoyuki Tomomatsu
is a Japanese film director and screenwriter who has worked in the pink film and horror genres. Life and career Tomomatsu was born in Osaka, Japan in 1967. He was interested in manga and film from high school and started working as an office assistant to manga artist Shungicu Uchida. In 1992, he wrote his first screenplay for Shintōhō Eiga's pink film ''The Pregnant Woman'' (ザ・妊婦). His first film as a director was the independently produced in 1992 but he made his debut as a commercial director in 1993 for ENK (ＥＮＫプロ) with the film ''Baraado ni idaka re te'' (バラードに抱かれて), for which he also wrote the screenplay. Tomomatsu mixed genres with his pink film-thriller-gangster movie ''Kogyaru-gui: Oosaka terekura hen'' (コギャル喰い 大阪テレクラ篇), known in English as ''Eat the Schoolgirl'' or ''Eating Schoolgirls: Osaka Telephone Club'', released in Japan March 10, 1997. The film, which Tomomatsu directed and co-wrote, follows two ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yo-Yo Girl Cop
''Yo-Yo Girl Cop'', known in Japan as is a 2006 Japanese live-action feature film, the third to be based on the manga '' Sukeban Deka'', directed by Kenta Fukasaku. The film stars Aya Matsuura in the lead role of Saki Asamiya and Rika Ishikawa as her rival, Reika Akiyama. Yuki Saito, who played the role of Saki in the first live-action television series, appears here as her original character, who is revealed to be Saki's mother. The movie was released on September 30, 2006 in Japan and in the United States on July 17, 2007 by Magnolia Pictures as ''Yo-Yo Girl Cop''. Plot Twenty years after the events of the original series, a Japanese girl by the name of "K" is arrested in New York for beating 11 policemen. Although held in a straight jacket, she escapes by dislocating her own shoulder and tries to exit the facility, but a moment of kindness to comfort a little girl gets her captured again. K is then informed by Japanese inspector Kazutoshi Kira that her mother will be deported ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Japan
was established on April 5, 1986, as the adult video (AV) label for Japan Home Video (JHV). Company information The early AVs produced by JHV went under the Penguin (ぺんぎん) label, the first title being the 30-minute-long softcore ''Asobinasareya, Tadakurue'' (遊びなされや、ただ狂へ) starring Hidemi Nakajima (中島秀美) released May 21, 1984, with production code KA-1001. The same production code series was used for releases under the Alice Japan label which began with ''Sexy Violence'' (セクシーバイオレンス), KA-1050, starring Mariko Kajikawa. In the years following, the company continued using the "KA" series for their products released on VHS tape. Iconic AV Idol Hitomi Kobayashi was one of the company's first stars appearing in Alice Japan videos as early as 1986. Among other early AV actresses who made their debut with Alice Japan were Riria Yoshikawa in 1990 and Asami Jō in 1995. Early directors for the company include Rokurō Mochizuki, who s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MAX-A
is a Japanese adult video (AV) studio which is especially known for videos made under its Samansa ("Samantha") and Calen ("Karen") labels which produced a number of innovative and quality AVs in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Company information The Max-A studio released its first video May 23, 1992 on the Calen label (with the code XC-1001), ''Calen Falls in Love'' (恋するカレン), featuring Saori Kawana and directed by Hajime Kitano. A week later, the first Samansa label video, ''Witch-Wife'' (白石ひとみの奥様は魔女), directed by Kunihiro Hasegawa and starring AV Idol Hitomi Shiraishi, came out with the production code XS-2001 on May 30, 1992. Max-A has had a long association dating back to at least 1997 with the Kuki group of companies, at one time the largest family of AV companies in Japan, comprising Kuki, Alice Japan, Atlas21, Media Station (Cosmos Plan), Big Morkal and Sexia. The companies in this group all belonged to the voluntary ethics organization ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Niigata Prefecture
is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture in the Chūbu region of Honshu of Japan. Niigata Prefecture has a population of 2,227,496 (1 July 2019) and is the List of Japanese prefectures by area, fifth-largest prefecture of Japan by geographic area at . Niigata Prefecture borders Toyama Prefecture and Nagano Prefecture to the southwest, Gunma Prefecture to the south, Fukushima Prefecture to the east, and Yamagata Prefecture to the northeast. Niigata, Niigata, Niigata is the capital and largest city of Niigata Prefecture, with other major cities including Nagaoka, Niigata, Nagaoka, Jōetsu, Niigata, Jōetsu, and Sanjō, Niigata, Sanjō. Niigata Prefecture contains the Niigata Major Metropolitan Area centered on Niigata with a population of 1,395,612, the largest metropolitan area on the Sea of Japan coast and the twelfth-largest in Japan. Niigata Prefecture is part of the historic Hokuriku region and features Sado, Niigata, Sado Island, the sixth largest island of Japan in area follo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
