Toshimi Sugawara 菅原禄弥 is a 29 year old Japanese actress and fashion model from Chiba prefecture.  She has appeared in Japanese fashion magazines Cawaii, Ray and S-Cawaii and TV commercials for Kao, Asahi drinks (Wonda) and Beauteen.

Toshimi has also appeared in various TV shows from ten years  – Keishicho Sosa Ikka 9 Gakari 4 (TV Asahi, 2009, ep4), Shinjuku Swan (TV Asahi, 2007, ep3), Koi no Kara Sawagi Drama Special Love Stories II (NTV, 2005), Memory of Love (MBS, 2004) , Koi no Chikara (Fuji TV, 2002) , Watashi wo Ryokan ni Tsuretete (Fuji TV, 2001), Rouge (NHK, 2001) , Taiyo wa Shizumanai (Fuji TV, 2000) , Kira Kira Hikaru (Fuji TV, 2000, SP2) Kiken na Kankei (Fuji TV, 1999) and Kokusan Hina Musume (国産ひな娘) (TV Tokyo, 1999).  Read more...

Kaori Nakamura 中村果生莉  is the 2010 Sapporo Beer image girl. This 23 year old Saitama gravure idol and actress is 167cm tall with measurements 87 – 59 – 89 cm.  She loves watching sports, movies, enjoys aromatherapy and  is a medal winning rhythmic gymnast (having been doing gymnastics for the last 12 years).

Kaori started her gravure career in 2006 being a finalist in both Zak the Queen and Miss Flash.  She appeared in one DVD and photo book called Marine Life in 2007.  Read more...

Azusa Yamamoto 山本梓 has that pretty girl next door look that has earned her a legion of fans.  The 29 year old gravure idol and actress is from Chiba prefecture debuted in 2001 as a model for teen fashion magazine Cawaii.

Azusa is a talented pianist and ballet dancer which helps explain how she keeps so fit. She has appeared in 9 photobooks and 16 DVDs, TV commercials for Suzuki, DoCoMo, Lawson, Mazda and J-pop station. Otaku fans will reconize her from her TV and sentai films like GoGo Sentai Boukenger vs Super Sentai, Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger, Bakuryuu sentai Abaranger vs Hurricanger and Ninpuu sentai Hurricanger vs Gaoranger.  Read more...

Last month, former gravure idol Haruna Yabuki 矢吹春奈 (real name Mariko Abe) decided to come back from LA to showbiz in Japan under her new stage name Mari Abe 阿部真里.  The sexy 25 year old idol wants to be a more serious actress and has signed with a new management agency  and is said to be aiming for an eventual break into Hollywood.

In March 2009,  the popular model  shocked her many fans putting her career on hold with the goal of studying abroad and moving to Los Angeles in June. While studying English at a language school for about 25 hours a week, she also started training once a week as an action actress.  Read more...

In 2008 popular Japanese av idol Maria Ozawa 小澤マリア starred in a Taiwanese horror movie called ‘‘Invitation Only.”  This year the sexy idol  stars an Indonesian film  “Menculik Miyabi” (Kidnapping Miyabi), classified as a teen comedy alongside Nicky Tirta, Herfiz Novianty, Kevin Julio and Ricky Mocil.

The movie  premiered in a number of cities in Indonesia earlier earlier this month despite opposition from some religious groups in the world’s most populated Muslim country. During the production stage, the film created controversy among Islamic figures and moviegoers over the producer’s choice of 24 year old Ozawa, known to her many fans as Miyabi, to be the star.  Read more...

Pretty 35 year old  fashion model and actress Chi Ling Lin 林志玲 リン・チーリン was in Tokyo recently to help promote the launch of 旅行ブランド Qualita クオリタ.  The 174cm tall Taiwan beauty who ranks well against Japanese models and is a graduate of the University of Toronto,  wore a sexy mini blue dress and spoke in simple Japanese.  She talked about her busy schedule, wearing comfortable clothes, not to forget a bikini when going to a resort and her ideal man being serious, having a sense of adventure and being filial.

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Mami Nagaoka 永岡真実 is a 20 year old actress and gravure idol from Noda in Chiba preferecture.  She is also student at a Seijo University studying theatre and film history and her hobbies including watching films, playing the piano and swimming.

Mami has appared in 3 TV shows – 3 nen B gumi Kinpachi Sensei (TBS, 2008), Nodame Cantabile  (Fuji TV, 2006) and  Daisuki! Itsutsugo (TBS, 2005-present). During high school  Mami was a model for teen fashion magazine Love Berry ラブベリー and she also appeared in the music video of Jpop group  SKUNK SHOT BOOSTER‘ s music video Friends (2007).  Read more...

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...

Nozomi Sasaki 佐々木希 fans, no need to thank us for this awesome HD photo slide show of the beautiful Japanese actress and model.  Music is  Wasuremono 忘れもの originally sung by Masaaki Sakai 堺 正章, .

Nozomi Sasaki HD photo slideshow

Rin Takanashi 高梨臨 is a pretty 22 year old actress and gravure idol from Chiba prefecture who was scouted in trendy Harajuku district of Tokyo. In 2005-6 she was part of the idol group, Pink Jam Princess ピンクジャムプリンセス before appearing  in the 2007 film adaptation of the Japanese novel Goth as one of the lead characters, Yoru Morino.

She’s also appeared in 5 TV shows including Detective School Q 探偵学園Q, Drama – Emina Ogura (2007), Rookies ルーキーズ ,Drama – Yukino Inomata (2008),  Tetsudō Musume: Girls be ambitious! Drama – Raika Tachibana (2008) but she is probably best known among otaku for her role in 2009 Super Sentai series  Samurai Sentai Shinkenger 侍戦隊シンケンジャー, and Kamen Rider Deccade as Mako Shiraishi/Shinken Pink (2009)  Read more...