Saya Kazuki 和希沙也 is a pretty 26 year old Japanese actress from Shiga preferecture who started as a gravure idol in 2001 in the idol group HOP Club in Osaka. In 2002 she won the Miss Magazine competition beating out 15,000 contestants.

A good friend of gravure idol Sayaka Isoyama and actress Yui Ichikawa, she likes reading, soccer and watching movies

In her gravure days from 2002-2006 she released 9 DVDs and 4 photo albums.  She has also appeared on many numerous TV shows and TV commercials for Shiseido and Tokyo Gas.  Last year she appeared in the movie Homeless ga Chugakusei.  Read more...

Rio Hirai 平井理央 is an cute Japanese 27 year old TV announcer with Fuji TV.  She started off as an actress in the TV show in 2003 Animal Doctor Dobutsu no Oisha-san 動物のお医者さん (TV Asahi) but has since done more announcing and modeling than acting.   She has also appeared in TV commercials for Asahi diet drink Slat 88 with fellow announcer Tomoko Honda, commercials for Hot Fantasy Odaiba ホット ファンタジー オダイバ, Fuji Golden Week Super and Shiseido.  Read more...

Here is a video of the beautiful Japanese actress and model Misaki Ito 伊東 美咲 as a young 21 year old Asahi Beer campaign girl.  This lovely Japanese lady gets prettier the older she gets.

1998 Asahi Beer Girl

Shiseido TV CM 2007

Shiseido TV CM 2008

Like Japanese TV commercials? especially Christmas ones?  See what’s showing right now in Japan including commercials from PARCO, Lotte, Tokyo Disneyland, Meiji, Haagan-Dazs, Muji,  Suntory Boss, Shiseido, KFC and Tokyo Metro.

Karina Nose 能瀬香里奈 (or just Karina ,香里奈) is a top Japanese actress and model from Nagoya in Aichi prefecture.  This pretty 25 year old has two sisters Anna and Erena who are also actresses.

Karina has been a fashion model for Japanese fashion magazines JJ, Ray and CanCam and appeared in TV commercials forPepsi, Shiseido, Lotte,  Bausch and Long, Big Globe, Subaru, Honda, Suntory, Toyota, ShaMaison and JAL.

Karina has also appeared in several movies including, Bandage (2008) , Koizora (2007), Shaberedomo Shaberedomo (2007), Rinne / Reincarnation (2006), Umizaru (2005)
Tengoku no Honya ~Koibi~ / Heaven’s Bookstore – The Light of Love (2004) and Shinkokyuu no Hitsuyou (2004).  She has one upcoming movie next year “Parade”.  Read more...

Emi Suzuki 鈴木 えみ is a pretty Japanese fashion model who was born in Shanghai China.  She was a regular model for Japanese fashion magazine Seventeen from 1999- 2005.

She also appeared in the music video for Jpop group Ketsumeishi’s 2005 mega-hit song Sakura

In 2006 she became an exclusive model for Japanese fashion magazine PINKY,  and also appeared in  TV commercials for  Shiseido, Suntory, OPC (Calorie Mate). Aside from modeling, she has appeared in many TV series, such as The Long Love Letter, The Queen of the Lunch, Water Boys 2,  Yukan Club and Ryokiteki na Kanojo.  Read more...

Yuri Ebihara 蛯原 友里 is a 30 year old top Japanese model and actress from Miyazaki prefecture known as “ebi-chan”. She is a graduate of Kyushu Sangyo University, where she studied fine arts but became an exclusive fashion model for popular Japanese girls magazine CanCam.

She has since appeared in several TV dramas, Busu no Hitomi ni Koi shiteru (KTV, 2006) and “Tokumei Kakarichō Tadano Hitoshi” (tv asahi, 2007).  She also works as a model for advertising campaigns including Zespri, MacDonalds, Shiseido and  Fujifilm FinePix.

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Hollywood actress Jennifer Beals of Flashdance fame was in Japan recently to promote Showtime Network’s The L Word, where she plays Bette Porter, an Ivy League educated lesbian. The show is being promoted via video release and Jennifer was on Mezamashi TV on February 5th to talk about her career and the show.

In the mid 1980s Jennifer had starred in TV commercials in Japan for Japanese cosmetics company Shiseido for their Perky Jean eye shadow.

Jennifer Beals promoting The L World

1984 TV commercials for Shiseido’s Perky Jean eyeshadow