akiho yoshizawa

• Akiho Yoshizawa, born on March 3, 1984, is a Japanese actress and former adult video (AV) actress. She began her career in 2003 with Alice Japan and Max-A, and later transitioned to Maxing and S1 No. 1 Style in 2007. Yoshizawa was a member of the idol group Ebisu Muscats between 2008 and 2013.
  
  In addition to her hardcore AV videos, Yoshizawa has appeared in pink film, mainstream non-erotic films, and television. Her first appearance as a gravure idol in Kodansha's Young Magazine in 2002 was published in the photobook Akiho. In March 2003, she made her AV debut under contract with Alice Japan and Max-A. Her first video as an AV performer, Angel, was released by the Alice Japan label in March 2003.
  
  Yoshizawa continued alternating performances between the two studios through the middle of 2006, usually making one movie a month. Her early videos included the incest-themed My Sister Is an AV Idol for Alice Japan directed by Rokurō Mochizuki. For her work in her first year in AV, Yoshizawa was nominated for the Best New Actress Award at the 2003 X City Grand Prix Awards.
  
  In addition to her hardcore AV videos, Yoshizawa has also appeared on TV and in mainstream movies and softcore V-Cinema and pink films. Her TV appearances include the TV Tokyo production Jōō (嬢王), which aired in 12 episodes from October to December 2005. She returned in a special guest appearance in the 2009 sequel to the show Jōō Virgin.
  
  In 2005, she starred in the pink film Fascinating Young Hostess: Sexy Thighs, which was ranked as the Best Film of the year at the 2006 Pink Grand Prix. Yoshizawa won the third Best Actress award at the same ceremony.

• In 2006, Yoshizawa starred in The Inner Palace: Indecent War, a historical costume drama set in the Edo period. She began working for two new AV companies, Maxing and S1 No. 1 Style, appearing in about one movie a month for both studios. Yoshizawa's work in AV for the 2007 year was acknowledged by several awards, including the 1st Place Award at the 2007 AV Open contest and the 2nd Place Award at the 2008 Vegas Night.
  
  In another media, she was a nominee for the Best Actress Award for her 2007 appearances on adult Channel 902 (Midnight Blue) on satellite TV broadcaster SKY PerfecTV! at the 2008 Adult Broadcasting Awards ceremonies. The next year, at the December 2008 Moodyz Awards, she won the 2nd Place award for Best Actress. Her tenure at S1 also marked the beginning of her close friendship with Yuma Asami, who went on to co-star several films over the next few years.
  
  In another genre, Yoshizawa played the female ninja (kunoichi) Kasumi in the erotic action V-Cinema release Lady Ninja Kasumi Vol.4. From April 2008, she was a cast regular on the late night TV Osaka variety show Please Muscat, which included other S1 actresses such as Sora Aoi, Yuma Asami, Rio (Tina Yuzuki), and Mihiro singing and performing comedy skits. She was a member of the first incarnation of the idol group Ebisu Muscats between 2008 and 2013.
  
  In May 2008, she appeared in the mainstream science fiction comedy Shin supai gâru daisakusen, known in English as Spy Girl's Mission Cord #005. She had a major role as Makoto in the September 2008 mainstream drama Hanky-Panky Baby, which was released as a DVD in November 2008. Yoshizawa enjoyed acting in mainstream movies and TV but thought that her AV work was also important.
  
  Later that year, she starred as a woman driving a dekotora or "decorated truck" inherited from her father in the October 2008 action film Deco Truck Gal Nami. This film spawned three V-cinema sequels starring Yoshizawa and an entire genre of 'Lady Trucker' films in Japan. An English-language version of the original film was released through Switchblade Pictures in December 2013 as Big Bad Mama-San – Dekotora 1.
  
  In November 2008, Yoshizawa starred as the title character in the V-cinema science-fiction fantasy Maid-Droid. In 2010, she was selected to star in the inaugural episode of the "Scary Erotic Ghost Stories" series of videos combining horror and eroticism. In 2015, she starred in the Korean thriller film Maze: Secret Love.

• Akiho Yoshizawa, a former high school judo competitor, has connections to Japanese professional wrestling. In 2010, she starred in her first 3D adult video, Maxing 3D! for the Maxing studio. She won the Best Program Award at the 2013 Adult Broadcasting Awards ceremony and became the studio's longest working actress in 2015.
  
  Yoshizawa continued her career in the 2010s, appearing in over 1000 adult film titles by 2018. On October 1, 2018, she announced her retirement from the AV scene in March 2019. S1 released S1 X Idea Pocket, co-starring Jessica Kizaki. Her last fan meet-up tour ended on January 12, 2019, concluding her 16-year AV career.
  
  Her last AV with S1, THE FINAL, was released on March 7, 2019, featuring 4 hours of content and a retirement documentary on a separate DVD. Her final adult film, AV Complete Withdrawal ~ FINAL SEX ~ Yoshizawa Akiho, was released on March 16, 2019.
  
  Since retiring from AV, Yoshizawa has been working as a special counselor at the Aria Roppongi Men's Clinic and started her own podcast, Akiho 'Acky' Yoshizawa-The Radio. She hinted at becoming a romance novelist in an October 2019 interview and confirmed on Twitter that she is in the process of writing her first novel. In 2020, she published her autobiographical novel, 16 Years as an AV Actress, detailing her career and personal experiences in the adult film industry. She also started her own YouTube channel in the same year.