yuma asami

Yuma Asami, born in 1987, is a Japanese actress, singer, and former adult video (AV) actress and model. She was known for her youthful looks, large bust, and natural onscreen charisma, which helped her establish herself as Japan's top adult performer. Between 2008 and 2013, she was also a member of the idol group Ebisu Muscats, where she performed with numerous other famous AV actresses like Sola Aoi, Akiho Yoshizawa, Tina Yuzuki (Rio), and Aino Kishi.

Asami made her AV debut in October 2005 at the age of 18, and since then, she has been under contract with two major Japanese AV studios, Alice Japan and S1 No.1 Style. Both studios specialize in "softer" type of pornography with straight sex scenes involving a solo actress, with little or no storyline, and an avoidance of more extreme activities of Japanese porn.

Asami quickly became one of the most popular AV actresses in Japan after her debut and was regularly placed at the very top in DVD sales and rentals. The DMM website listing of the top 100 AV actresses by sales ranked her as number 1 in both 2006 and 2007.

During her tenure at S1, Asami was involved in several large-scale and acclaimed projects, such as Maison Esuwan Annex, the sequel to her 2007 video, Tsubaki, or S1 TV – Showbusiness Broadcast Goes To The Extreme!, released in January 2010. The film featured Asami and several other S1 actresses in an unusually detailed storyline and with a satirical outlook on Japanese television and idol culture mixed with numerous explicit sex scenes.

In June 2010, Asami starred in one of the first two AV's made in 3D, the S1 produced Attracting The Best Stereoscopic 3D Yuma Asami Sex BODY. When the major Japanese adult video distributor DMM held a poll of its customers in 2012 to choose the 100 all-time best AV actresses to celebrate the 30th anniversary of adult videos in Japan, Asami took second place.

While mainly working for Alice Japan and S1 throughout her AV career, Asami made occasional appearances for other studios like Attackers, Premium, or E-Body. Her last regular adult film Young Wife Under Aphrodisiacs Yuma Asami was released on June 15, 2013, shortly after her announcement that she was fighting with cancer. Her last adult video appearance before her retirement was in December 2014, on the extra disc of S1's "Memorial Box Set", detailing her recovery from the illness and her self-discovery during a vacation on the southern islands.

Asami has made several "gravure" videos, which are essentially glamour films that may include nudity but no sexual acts. She was the star of the softcore direct-to-video (V-Cinema) erotic action flick Ninja She Devil, directed by Yoshikazu Katō. In addition to her hardcore video activities, Asami has also worked in television, performing in the J-dorama Shimokita GLORY DAYS, which aired on TV Tokyo from April 2006 to April 2007. She played the character Komori Miha in the series, which revolved around a ronin student moving to Tokyo and sharing a house with several beautiful women.

In another genre, she appeared in an erotic horror pink film, Siren X, directed by Hideo Jojo and co-starring Japanese AV actress Yuria Hidaka. The film premiered in Osaka in April 2008 and was released as a DVD in October 2008. In October 2010, Asami starred in Shinshaku: Yojōhan fusuma no shitabari, a "new interpretation" of the 1973 pink film The World of Geisha based on the novel by Kafū Nagai. The film was released as a DVD in January 2011.

Asami also starred in two more pink films for Shintōhō Eiga, the June 2011 Abe Sada: Saigo no nanokakan, and the December 2012 Captive Market. She played the role of Oshichi in the mainstream erotic period drama Princess Sakura: Forbidden Pleasures, directed by Hajime Hashimoto and released in June 2013.

Asami has also been active in advertising, making promotional videos for the adult website Tospo.jp with the QR Code for their site covering her breasts. She also appeared on a T-shirt marketed in a collaboration between Cex Work and the apparel label The Mask, featuring a semi-nude photo of Asami taken by Yonehara.

Asami, a former club hostess, had a personal life filled with personal struggles and cancer. She had her first sexual experience in junior high and had five boyfriends by the age of 18. After being discharged from the hospital due to cancer, she became closer to her 75-year-old grandmother. Asami also suffered from rheumatism. In 2013, she underwent surgery to remove an ovarian tumor and is currently undergoing treatment and chemotherapy. The tumor was discovered during an MRI scan due to stomach problems. The cancer was classified as borderline malignant and Stage 3 in development. Asami has undergone six chemotherapy treatments and is on the road to recovery. In 2014, she announced her desire to continue her music career and was writing an autobiography, Re Start, which was published by Kodansha in May 2014. She also worked with a non-profit group, "Cancer Net Japan," to raise awareness about ovarian cancer. Asami announced her retirement from the AV industry in May 2015, and since then, she has dedicated her career to music and singing, performing frequently.