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ABOUT Asami Sugiura

Asami Sugiura (杉浦亜紗美, Sugiura Asami), who usually performs under the name Asami (亜紗美) is an award-winning Japanese model, actress and AV Idol.

Life and career

Asami was born in Tokyo, Japan on September 19, 1985. At age 19, she appeared in the theatrical film Kiss Me or Kill Me (kiss me or kill me　届かなくても愛してる, Kiss me or kill me: Todokanakutemo aishiteru), directed by Naoyuki Tomomatsu and released March 12, 2005 by TMC. She also made a gravure (non-sex) video in March 2005 titled Wash Me! and she made her debut as an adult video (AV) actress in the April 2005 Kuki Tank release In Love. She continued working for Kuki through 2005, most often with director Harry Sugino, before moving on to other studios.

Asami also appeared in several V-Cinema releases and theatrical films including starring in the February 2006 film Sukeban Boy or Oira Sukeban (おいら女蛮スケバン, Oira sukeban) where she played a boy with a girl's face who decides to join a girl's school. One reviewer commented that she is "a woman playing a boy playing a girl. Which isn’t easy to pull off. However, she actually does a thoroughly decent job of it." In 2008 she also had a lead role playing the title heroine's sidekick Miki in Noboru Iguchi's gore-fest The Machine Girl (片腕マシンガール, Kataude mashin gâru) which premiered at the Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival in March 2008. She reprised her role (billed as Asami Sugiura) in the January 2009 V-Cinema sequel Shyness Machine Girl (hajiraiマシンガール, Hajirai mashin gāru) In between, she also had a part in Yūdai Yamaguchi's horror film Tamami: The Baby's Curse released in August 2008.

For her performances in such pink films as Female Prisoner Ayaka: Tormenting and Breaking in a Bitch (女囚アヤカ　いたぶり牝調教, Joshū Ayaka: itaburi mesu chōkyō), Asami won 3rd place in the "Best New Actress" category at the Pink Grand Prix for the year 2008.

Asami's adult video with three other actresses, Three Sisters Ninja Sex, a period costume female ninja (kunoichi) piece, was the Kasakura entry for the 2009 AV Grand Prix contest. At the end of 2008 and the beginning of 2009, Asami also acted in three other elaborate historical cosplay AVs for Cosmos Plan.

Source: Wikipedia