Saori Hara
Hiroshima, Japan
Height 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)
Measurements 85(E)-61-85 cm
33½-24-33½ in
Eye colour Brown
Hair colour Brunette
Blood group O
Ethnicity Japanese and German
Saori Hara (原紗央莉, Hara Saori) is a Japanese AV idol, model and actress who has also used the name Mai Nanami (七海まい, Nanami Mai).
Saori Hara was born in Hiroshima Prefecture to a Japanese mother and a father of mixed German-Japanese parentage.
Mai Nanami
Hara started her career as a junior idol under the name Mai Nanami. As a teenager, she sang the theme song Spicy Days (スパイシーデイズ, Supaishiideizu?) for the animated TV show The Marshmallow Times (マシュマロ通信, Mashumaro Tsūshin?) on TV Osaka in 2004. She also had parts in two movies in 2005, the March TV drama The Dream of Delinquent Boys (不良少年の夢, Furyō Shōnen No Yume?) for TBS,and the April theatrical release, horse-racing melodrama Lovely Fields (ハルウララ, Haru Urara), which was later released as a DVD.
She had also made a bikini-model photobook, Mai Nanami First Photobook, in May 2005 and a non-nude (gravure) DVD titled Mai Nanami: Yamagishi Shin Digital Movie Museum which was released in August 2005.[5][11] As Nanami, she also played the female lead in another mainstream movie that was due to be released in Japan in 2006 but had its debut at the American Film Market in Santa Monica, California in November 2005 as Deep Sea Monster Reigo. The film was eventually released in Japan as Reigo: The Deep Sea Monster vs the Battleship Yamato (深海獣レイゴー, Shinkaijū Reigō?).
Saori Hara AV debut
After a long hiatus, she re-emerged as Saori Hara in August 2008 and appeared in a non-nude gravure video titled Clear Water.
The next month, in September, she posed nude for the first time in the
Japanese men’s magazine Sabra, and it was announced that she was
contracted to the Soft On Demand (SOD) adult video
studio. She became the face of the SOD group in its anti-STD campaign
in November 2008, a role formerly played by long-time SOD AV actress Nana Natsume. Hara’s her first adult video (AV) was released by SOD in January 2009 with the title Real Celebrity Saori Hara: Miraculous AV Debut and was reported to have sold 100,000 copies.
About the same time as her AV debut, Hara posed for a set of nude photos set in Tokyo public places by photographer Kishin Shinoyama which was published January 28, 2009 by Asahi Press as NO NUDE by KISHIN 1 20XX TOKYO.
Shinoyama has said that he likes working with porn stars because they
have no problems with nudity. However, both Shinoyama and Hara were
charged by Tokyo authorities with public indecency.
Also in early 2009, Hara was in the TV Asahi movie Mission Section Chief Hitoshi Tadano: Season 4 Special (特命係長 只野仁 シーズン４突入スペシャル, Tokumei Kakarichō Tadano Hitoshi Shīzun 4 Totsunyuu Supesharu?), a tie-in to the fourth season of the manga-based TV show.
Her May 2009 hamedori adult video for SOD, Real Celebrity Saori Hara: Brown Eyes, directed by Company Matsuo, had the quarter-German Hara traveling to Germany for six days to explore her roots. The SOD studio celebrated the end of Hara’s first year with the company with the four hour cosplay video, Real Celebrity Saori Hara: 8 Changes and Sweet Sex, where she plays eight different characters.
Not long after her AV debut, Hara had a role in the Nikkatsu sex comedy about the porn industry, Lala Pipo: A Lot of People (ララピポ?),
written by Tetsuya Nakashima, which reached theatres in February 2009.
In April of that same year, Hara had a featured part in the
disaster-parody comedy Saikin-rettō and also sang the theme song for the
movie. July 2009 saw her play the protagonist in kunoichi sexploitation
V-Cinema film Female Ninja Spy (隠密くノ一列伝~秘められた女忍び~?) that was also released in an AV version.
Hara made a TV appearance with a major
role in the late night 24-part manga-based J-dorama series Jōō Virgin
(嬢王 Virgin) which was broadcast on TV Tokyo from October to December
2009. Also in the cast were fellow AV actresses Yuma Asami, Akiho
Yoshizawa and Sora Aoi.
On December 11, 2009, Shueisha published Hara’s autobiography titled My Real Name Is Mai Kato: Why I Became an AV Actress (本名、加藤まい 私がAV女優になった理由) (ISBN 4087805409). The
144 page book details Hara’s upbringing and family life, her views on
sex and her career as a teen idol and eventual AV idol. Her
book is one of a number of autobiographical publications by actresses
about the AV industry going back Ai Iijima’s million-selling Platonic Sex and including Mihiro’s partially fictional May 2009 work nude and Honoka’s tell-all Biography of Honoka: Mama, I Love You
published in January 2010, marking a trend in which the AV industry is
losing its stigma and being assimilated into Japanese popular culture.
2010 activities
Hara continued her AV career with SOD in 2010 including the January release Real Celebrity Saori Hara: 22 Years Old – Awakening Sexual Desire and the August SOD Star x SOD Cinderella – Mega Gangbang where the plot revolves around “veteran” SOD actresses being paired against newcomers.
She was the winner of Adult Broadcasting
Award for Best Actress in March 2010 for her 2009 appearances on adult
channel Midnight Blue.
Hara’s presence in mainstream films was maintained in 2010 with her role as an aromatherapy client in Yumiko no Aroma
(ユリ子のアロマ), which debuted at the Yubari International Fantastic Film
Festival in February and was released theatrically in May. According to
an article in Shukan Post, Hara and Maria Ozawa are the two most downloaded AV actresses in China[5] and in August 2010, it was announced that Hara was cast with fellow SOD actress Yukiko Suo (周防ゆきこ, Suō Yukiko) for the USD$3.2 million 3-D Hong Kong erotic film 3D Sex and Zen: Extreme Ecstasy produced by Stephen Shiu who was the executive producer of the Category III film Sex and Zen.
References:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saori_Hara
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