Ran Asakawa
| Ran Asakawa | |
|---|---|
| Native name | 朝河 蘭 |
| Born | 4 September 1980[1] |
| 💼 Occupation | |
| Height | 1.58 m (5 ft 2 in) |
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Ran Asakawa (Japanese: 朝河 蘭 Hepburn: Asakawa Ran, born 4 September 1980) is a Japanese former AV idol and model who made her debut in the adult entertainment field in 2001.
Life and career[edit]
Ran Asakawa was born in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan on 4 September 1980. Her first sexual encounter happened when she was 19 and was with a businessman. She says, however, that her first fully pleasurable experience wasn't until about the 10th time.[2]
Asakawa finished high school and began junior college.[2] When she realized that she could not make much money doing part-time work she decided to start doing adult videos, and later explained, "I wanted to study to get a decent wage but I can't do that while I have a regular 9-5 job, right? So I picked AVs." She had thought about stripping but decided that the hours were too long.[2] She says she cried after making her first video "wondering what I was doing to myself". She finally got to like sex on camera but keeps her eyes closed from embarrassment.[2]
At first she was not a popular performer because of her mature looks at a time when very young looking girls were the fashion in porn and she did only about 10 videos in her first six months.[2] However, that changed and Asakawa and her modeling agency submitted an application to the Guinness Book of World Records for making 212 adult videos in the year 2002.[3] The next year (2003) she outdid her previous record by appearing in 304 videos but announced her retirement at the end of the year.[4] Her total output in Japan including later re-issues and compilations numbers nearly 800 videos.[5]
In late 2003 the Taipei Times reported that Asakawa had come to Taiwan with the hope of expanding her career there.[6] Although Asakawa had retired from Japanese AV work, in 2004 she did appear in a number of "uncensored" videos - those without the mosaic pixellation to obscure the genitals found in all standard Japanese adult videos. At least some of the videos were produced in Taiwan.[7]
In early 2012, the major Japanese adult video distributor DMM held a poll of its customers to choose the 100 all-time best AV actresses to celebrate the 30th anniversary of adult videos in Japan. Asakawa was voted into 69th place in the balloting.[8]
Selected magazine appearances[edit]
- 1 October 2002 Weekly Playboy (nude, 4 pages)[9]
- 1 July 2003 Weekly Playboy (nude, 8 pages)[10]
References[edit]
- ↑ Infobox data from "Ran Asakawa Profile" (Webpage) (in Japanese). maedamodels.com. Retrieved 2007-08-16. External link in
|publisher=(help)CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link) - ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 "Ran Asakawa Jsex Interview" (Webpage). www.jsexnetwork.com. Retrieved 2007-08-13. External link in
|publisher=(help) - ↑ "Guinness Record Application Form" (in Japanese). tantai.net. Retrieved 2008-10-10. External link in
|publisher=(help)CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link) - ↑ "Ran Asakawa" (in Japanese). tantai.net. Retrieved 2008-10-10. External link in
|publisher=(help)CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link) - ↑ "朝河蘭 (Ran Asakawa) Videography" (in Japanese). s7.artemisweb.jp. Retrieved 2008-10-10. External link in
|publisher=(help)CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link) - ↑ Woodworth, Max (5 September 2003). "Pop Stop". Taipei Times. Retrieved 2007-08-16.
- ↑ "朝河蘭 (Ran Asakawa)" (in Japanese). AV Entertainments. Retrieved 2008-10-10. External link in
|publisher=(help)CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link) - ↑ "AV女優★人気投票" (in Japanese). DMM. Retrieved 2015-02-22.CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link)
- ↑ 週プレ2002. 知誕Wiki (in Japanese). 29 November 2007. Retrieved 2008-03-18. External link in
|work=(help)CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link) - ↑ 週プレ2003. 知誕Wiki (in Japanese). 6 December 2007. Retrieved 2008-03-18. External link in
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Sources[edit]
- "Ran Asakawa". AV Idol Directory. Retrieved 2010-10-13. External link in
|publisher=(help) - "朝河 蘭 Asakawa Ran (Profile)". 'Web I-dic'. Retrieved 2007-08-16. External link in
|publisher=(help) - Ran Asakawa on IMDb
- "Ran Asakawa Jheat Profile". www.jheat.com/. Archived from the original (Webpage) on 2007-09-13. Retrieved 2007-08-13. External link in
|publisher=(help) - "Ran Asakawa Self & Agency" (in Japanese). tantai.net. Retrieved 2008-10-10. External link in
|publisher=(help)CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link) - "Ran Asakawa Videography" (in Japanese). s7.artemisweb.jp. Retrieved 2008-10-10. External link in
|publisher=(help)CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link) - "朝河蘭 (Asakawa Ran - Moodyz profile and filmography)" (in Japanese). Moodyz. Retrieved 2008-03-20.CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link)
External links[edit]
- Ran Asakawa on IMDb
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