In our continuing survey of what gradols and porn stars do after leaving their jobs, we now have the example of one of the most prominent JAV performers of recent years: Ai Uehara.
Having just won a high-profile diversity award, Ai is wasting no time in launching the next stage in her working life.
She has just started a crowdfunding campaign, aire (pronounced "eye re"), for a new of health and beauty supplement brand called AminoR-20+Zn. As the name suggests, the supplement contains zinc and 20 types of amino acids. The project is produced by Ai in partnership with a corporation, ...
Former top adult video star Ai Uehara is about to kick off her second career with a crowdfunding campaign later this month. The details are still a little slim, though it seems to involve launching her own photography brand. We hope to report more next week.
In the meantime, Ai has been in the news for another reason: she won the Miss iD 2021 award.
The 28-year-old was selected from 2,676 candidates and 194 finalists for the prize, which is now in its ninth year.
The finalists had to attend interviews to win over the the judges. Following auditions held online last August, the event to ...
Nayuka Mine is one of the most high-profile ex-porn stars in Japan.
She worked as an adult video performer for five years from 2005. She has since become a popular manga artist. Her latest book, a semi-autobiography, came out in December last year.
In a recent two-part interview with the Bunshun online, 36-year-old Mine explained her past.
She was scouted for AV at the age of 19. She hadn't appreciated that she had big breasts until then, when her assets were praised by the scout. Rather, at high school, she had been teased for being "fat" by her male cohorts. At the time, she had come ...
Some stories are stranger than fiction and Anri Sakaguchi's is almost one such tale.
The 28-year-old, whose real name is Mizue Nozawa, has added multiple hyphenates to her name over the past few of years as her life and career has taken all kinds of twists and turns.
The daughter of a well-known actress and a one-time tarento herself, she made her unexpected adult video debut in 2016 to pay off her huge debts. This would be sensational enough for most people but Anri Sakaguchi is not most people.
She was then arrested in 2017 for attempted extortion of a bar host with whom she was ...
If you thought that when Sola Aoi got married, you would see the last of her, think again.
The popular former adult video star is now heavily pregnant but isn't content to sit back and wait for nature to take its course. No, even the imminent start of maternity is a way for her to connect with her legions of fans and, if we're frank, take her fame (as in 655,000-Instagram-followers-level fame) to new extremes.
"Welcome to the world, Sola's baby [sic]," says the publicity for Abema TV's live broadcast of the birth of her twins. Yes, 35-year-old Sola (sometimes spelled Sora) is going to ...
Asian Boss recently landed a video interview with former Japanese adult video star Emiri Okazaki.
The video has proved a hit, notching up over 3.5 million views in just a few days at time of writing.
As video host Kei notes, Japan is known for a handful things, including anime and porn. But why is porn so big here? And what is like to work in the industry?
The 18-minute interview is in Japanese but has English subtitles throughout. Emiri Okazaki, whose five-year AV stint began in 2011, discusses her career and thoughts on working as a porn star.
The kinds of women who go ...
There comes a point in every Japanese porn star fan's life when he (or she) has to accept the facts of reality.
Their favorite adult video idol will, at some point, retire from the industry, most likely into obscurity. Or they get married (at least, they do the rare thing of announcing this publicly while still famous).
Such is the case with Sola Aoi, the immensely popular JAV star who enjoys remarkable fame overseas.
Sola (or Sora) has not made an original porn release since 2011 but is still adored by legions of men, especially in China. Now, sadly, there is a further obstacle between ...
Nippon.com, normally a fairly austere and academic online publication, has published an article by sociologist Suzumi Suzuki, in which she discusses her fieldwork about adult video and role play in the porn world.
Suzuki starts out with a very positive view of her subject matter:
AV actresses are surprisingly articulate when asked to talk about themselves. In the videos by which they make a living, as well as in magazines and other media, they calmly field personal questions of all kinds and narrate their personal stories smoothly and eloquently.
To a large extent, this is a skill they ...
Nayuka Mine (峰なゆか) is a former porn star turned manga-ka.
She is famous for having an alluring, curvy beauty similar to Mitsu Dan.
Born in 1984, she made her AV debut in 2005 but left the porn industry in 2009, except for a brief comeback in 2011 for a lesbian title from MOODYZ.
These days her appearances are tamer, though she's not averse to posting some very sexy selfies!
But personally we love seeing her in all her glory.
Like Manami Hashimoto and Mitsu Dan, Nayuka is definitely a lady who is getting hotter with ...
