Gravure Idol of the Week: Asami Sakanoue

Last week we went for the young, thin and slinky Rina Koike. Here’s a different kind of Japanese beauty.

Our sumptuous specimen of Japanese femininity is the curvy and busty Asami Sakanoue (坂ノ上 朝美). Born in 1988, she officially retired at the end of December. Along the way she tried her hand at being a gravure idol, actress, and TV presenter.

While sadly she never reached the heights of some of the other girls we have featured on these pages over the years, she is still in our humble opinions quite a special lady…for obvious reasons!

Asami Sakanoue also did a hair nude (full-frontal) shoot — a sadly rare thing these days after the heyday of the genre in the 1990s and early 2000s.

These are from slightly earlier in her career.