JAV stars who did mainstream media.

[hoochimama]

This thread is for listing JAV chicks who have appeared in stuff like real movies, pinku eiga, music videos etc as I find it's way hotter to first be introduced to a JAV star through her mainstream works -where they often look much hotter and which easily puts them up on a mental pedestal as actresses/musicians etc- before looking at their porn videos. Essentially by familiarizing myself with a jav star through her mainstream works before I ever look at her JAV stuff I get a celebrity sextape kick out of the first time I watch her in a porn video.

So let's start:

Asami

As an actress has appeared in a handful of mainstream movies as well as starring in a bunch of trashy b-movies and pinku-eiga movies and doing voicework in some anime.

Asami Sugiura - Wikipedia

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Asami

Sugiura Asami was only nineteen when she starred in Kiss Me Or Kill Me: Todokanakutemo Aaishiteru. It is safe to say that the former occurred given how she went on to star in various exploitation, adult, gravure and action features. She had opted against attending university after receiving...

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[hoochimama]

Yoko Shimada

Yoko Shimada - Wikipedia

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Yoko Shimada

Kumamoto City-born Shimada Yoko is best known in the west as Mariko from the 1980 mini-series Shogun. The lady-in-waiting role created an interest in Japan and its culture overseas and introduced Japanese history to foreign audiences. She won the Golden Globe For Best Performance by an Actress...

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Leading lady in the shogun tv series, The Hunted, Crying Freeman etc

 

[hoochimama]

Yui Hatano

Yui Hatano - Wikipedia

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Yui Hatano

Yui Hatano is known as an Actor. Some of her work includes Sashimi, LaForet Girl 53 Obedient Wife : Yui Hatano, S2M-007 Encore Vol 7 (Hatano Yui), At An Outdoor Bathing Spot Open to Both Genders..., Black Impact The Female Sniper Yui Hatano, Housewife Sex Slaves: Hatano Yui, Slut x Slut Lesbian...

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Starred in a handful of non-porn movies like Sashimi, tv series, tv talkshow guest, idol music group, videogame VA etc

 

[JetTee]

Honey Popcorn - Wikipedia

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No idea what they were thinking trying to get this to work in ultra-conservative straight laced Korea but A+ for effort.

 

[Zen10101]

Nao Oikawa is among those with the most mainstream exposure I think, doing roles in numerous sentai films and TV series. She's very active on YouTube, just a regular, demure host. Sadly she didn't stay for the HD era and the mosaic in her av films are horrid, but those not familiar with her can get a kick out of seeing her getting down and dirty in her heyday.

 

[hoochimama]

Kirara Asuka

Kirara Asuka - Wikipedia

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Kirara Asuka

Kirara Asuka (明日花キララ) is a famous Japanese AV idol and movie star. She started her career 2007 as porn actress and became a worldwide phenomenon in the adult industry. Around 2011 she moved into mainstream starring in Japanese movies and TV productions. Retired from porn in February 2020.

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Leading actress in a few b-movies like the Iron Girl series, did some music, now doing the youtuber thing.

 

[hoochimama]

Nao Oikawa is among those with the most mainstream exposure I think, doing roles in numerous sentai films and TV series. She's very active on YouTube, just a regular, demure host. Sadly she didn't stay for the HD era and the mosaic in her av films are horrid, but those not familiar with her can get a kick out of seeing her getting down and dirty in her heyday.

New to me, thanks!

Nao Oikawa - Wikipedia

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Nao Oikawa

Nao Oikawa is a Japanese actress, TV Personality and was also a former AV idol who was very popular in the early 2000s. Nao Oikawa was born in Hiroshima. Her family moved to Tokyo when she was a little girl. At age 18, when she graduated from high school and began design school, she met a scout...

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[hoochimama]

Yuma Asami

Yuma Asami - Wikipedia

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Yuma Asami

Yuma Asami is a Japanese adult video actress. Beginning in 2005 Asami appeared in AVs for Alice Japan and S1 No. 1 Style. Her adult videos have won first prize in Japanese Adult Video Awards, and she has won awards as an adult actress. She has also appeared in soft-core "gravure" videos...

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Leading lady in Siren X (2008), did a lot of music etc.

 

[hoochimama]

Shijimi

Shijimi

Shijimi initially performed in Japanese Adult Video (as Akane Mochida), but transitioned to work as an actress in softcore productions and mainstream films.

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しじみ (女優) - Wikipedia

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Quite a few legit roles in mainstream dramas as well as a bunch of b-movies and pinku eiga.

 

[hoochimama]

Sasa Handa

Sasa Handa

Sasa Handa is a Japanese model, actress and former AV Idol who was born on April 18, 1985 in Okinawa, Japan. She has also used the name Chieri Haruyama. Under the name Chieri Haruyama she appeared in a number of wrestling catfight videos beginning in September 2003. The DVD series, Idol Fight...

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範田紗々 - Wikipedia

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Leading lady in a bunch of b-movies and pinku eiga like ScissorDick, the Homejack series etc

 

[hoochimama]

Tia

Tia

Tia is an AV actress, singer, and a former member of Ebisu★Muscats.

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ティア (AV女優) - Wikipedia

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Leading lady in Colonel Panics as well as a few pinku eiga flicks.

 

[hoochimama]

Rika Hoshimi

Rika Hoshimi

Rika Hoshimi is a Japanese former AV idol, gravure model and actress. Rika Hoshimi was born on September 20, 1990 in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. She was first active as a centerfold model, and she debuted on video in May 2010 with the gravure (non-nude) release Emanechio (エマネチオ), which was...

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Leading lady in Bloodbath at Pinky High Part 1 and some pinku eiga.

 

[hoochimama]

Akiho Yoshizawa

Akiho Yoshizawa

Akiho Yoshizawa, often known simply as Acky (あっきー), is a Japanese former adult video actress (AV), 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 1000 adult film appearances, Yoshizawa was widely...

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Akiho Yoshizawa - Wikipedia

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Leading lady in the Maid Droid, Sultry Assassin, Dekotora Truck series and also starring in a few other japanese, korean and chinese b-movies and pinku and now doing the youtuber thing.

 

[hoochimama]

Rinako Hirasawa

Rinako Hirasawa

Rinako Hirasawa is a Japanese AV idol and pink film actress. She has appeared in award-winning pink films, and was given a "Best Actress" award for her work in this genre in 2007.

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Leading lady in New Tokyo Decadence: The Slave, Frog Song and a handful of other pinku eiga movies.

 

[hoochimama]

Mieko Arai
During the early 1990s, Mieko Arai was a member of the Japanese all girl pop group; "The Giri-Giri Girls".The five-member Giri-Giri Girls were a staple of late-night TV for several years from 1992-1995. They released 3 photo books and 5 albums and even won a Best Newcomer award in 1993

(on the right, pink skirt)
She also did some gravure posing back then:

After that she started acting and had a few good roles in some real movies and tv shows:

Mieko Arai | Actress

Known for: Irokoishi, Beach Boys, Hana to hebi 2: Pari/Shizuko

www.imdb.com

https://www.themoviedb.org/person/126604-mieko-arai

But the acting career mustn't panned out as 10 years later she suddenly went into JAV:

Videos starring Arai Mieko - JAVLibrary

www.javlibrary.com

 

[hoochimama]

Rumi Mochizuki
In the mid 90s she was another member of the Giri Giri Girls JPOP group that performed on TV most nights and also posed as a gravure idol:

(the one with the white skirt)

Then until around 2013 she was acting in movies, tv shows and even theater.

Rumi Mochizuki

Rumi Mochizuki is known as an Actor. Some of her work includes Black Out Tokyo Elevator Panic, Bad Money Hunting, Super-Horror Experience 1: Death and Make-up, Super-Horror Experience 2: Vampire Spirit, Super-Horror Experience 3: Zombie Voices, Super-Horror Experience 4: Psychic Video, and...

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もちづきる美 - Wikipedia

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In 2017 she finally jumped into JAV, including starring alongside her former Giri Giri Girls partner Mieko Arai:

Videos starring Mochizuki Rumi - JAVLibrary

www.javlibrary.com

 

[David.alternate1]

Rumi Mochizuki
In the mid 90s she was another member of the Giri Giri Girls JPOP group that performed on TV most nights and also posed as a gravure idol:

(the one with the white skirt)

Then until around 2013 she was acting in movies, tv shows and even theater.

Rumi Mochizuki

Rumi Mochizuki is known as an Actor. Some of her work includes Black Out Tokyo Elevator Panic, Bad Money Hunting, Super-Horror Experience 1: Death and Make-up, Super-Horror Experience 2: Vampire Spirit, Super-Horror Experience 3: Zombie Voices, Super-Horror Experience 4: Psychic Video, and...

www.themoviedb.org

もちづきる美 - Wikipedia

ja.wikipedia.org

In 2017 she finally jumped into JAV, including starring alongside her former Giri Giri Girls partner Mieko Arai:

Videos starring Mochizuki Rumi - JAVLibrary

www.javlibrary.com

Does any one know what has happened to her now? her last feature release was 2020. Has she retired from AV?

 

[sin2pi]

I'm not sure exactly how mainstream these are but:

Merciless Light

Five experimental animals that looked like humans were collected in a room of an inorganic laboratory . They are mice , although they are human in appearance , and they claim to be human. The last experiment was euthanasia . This story is a record of a ruthless experiment conducted on them.

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Has Suzu Honjo, Mikako Abe, Tsubomi... etc.

also:

Fancy Massage Salon

Kadomatsu Satomi (bud) is ordinary housewife who lives with her husband Yuji of salaried workers. One day, I applied a voice to Yasuda that the recruitment of esthetician in the street. Bud that was the beauty of the work prior to marriage, was supposed to be working as a part-staff in front of...

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Sleeping Forest Michiko

The forest where Tomoki Hamasaki, who encountered a restructuring and searched for a place to die, arrived. There were men working in forestry. Tomoki, who was to be helped by their work due to lack of manpower, notices that there is a cute girl among the master who speaks loudly and loosely...

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etc.. many others.

 

[composite]

Honey Popcorn - Wikipedia

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No idea what they were thinking trying to get this to work in ultra-conservative straight laced Korea but A+ for effort.

who's the JAV star here?

 

[hoochimama]

An easy way to find "mainstream" acting performances by JAV stars is to search themoviedb.org for jav https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site:themoviedb.org+jav&ia=web

By default or if you're logged out JAV movie titles on themoviedb appear blurred/censored so it should be easy to spot "mainstream" movies in a JAV chick's filmography list if she has done any.