Honoka

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Honoka
Born June 20, 1983 (1983-06-20) (age 28)[1]
Tarumizu, Kagoshima , Japan
Ethnicity Japanese
Height 1.60 m (5 ft 3 in)
Website
http://www.es-honoka.net/

Honoka (穂花 Honoka?) is an award-winning Japanese adult video (AV) actress and popular TV personality and actress. She retired from the AV industry in 2008.

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[edit] Life and career

Honoka was born in Tarumizu, Kagoshima, Japan on June 20, 1983. She is a licensed practical nurse and has appeared as a race queen at the 2004 Suzuka 8 Hours endurance race (July 2004). She plays the guitar, enjoys swimming and volleyball, going to Kabuki theatre and walking her dog.[2] Like fellow AV Idols Sora Aoi and Nana Natsume, she has been able to combine a career as an AV actress with mainstream movie and TV appearances.

Before she started in AV, Honoka had a small role as a female android secretary in the TV Tokyo cosplay drama The Ultimate Venus Angel Healing Force (究極癒し戦隊ヴィーナスエンジェル) which she was in from February 16 to March 29, 2004.[3]

[edit] AV actress

Honoka began her adult video career in June 2004 with the studio Try-Heart on their Sexia label.[4] She made 10 videos with Try-Heart over the next 18 months including a six-month hiatus at the end of 2005 when she made no videos. In March 2006, she debuted with videos for two new AV studios, at S1 No. 1 Style with Sell Debut x Risky Mosaic, directed by Hideto Aki,[5][6] and Deep Impact - Honoka Sell Debut for the Premium Glamour label.[7] She continued working with the two studios usually appearing in one video every other month for each studio. Her last original work with S1 was released in January 2008, but she continued to make films with Premium until her retirement. Both S1 and Premium are affiliated with Japan's largest producer of adult videos, the Hokuto Corporation.

Honoka's AV career has been quite conservative, she has worked for studios which specialize in softer, more glamour-oriented types of pornography,[8][9] and she has never ventured into the more extreme genres of Japanese porn. She has twice won the Nice Body award from Video Boy magazine, in 2005 and in 2006.[10] She is a very popular actress in Japan and in the DMM list of the top 100 actresses by sales, she placed #2 in 2006 and #3 in 2007.[11][12]

Honoka was part of the S1 compilation video Hyper – Barely There Mosaic (ハイパーギリギリモザイク) with AV idols Sora Aoi, Yua Aida, Yuma Asami, Maria Ozawa and Rin Aoki which won the 2006 AV Open competition among Japanese porn studios.[13] She was also the recipient of the "Best Actress" prize at the 2007 Adult Broadcasting Awards for the 2006 broadcast year. After pressing her tongue against the phallus-shaped prize statuette, she declared "I never thought I would be selected. I'd like to say that it was 'my pleasure' to my fans." In closing, she added "I want to be more famous in the AV field" and "I also want to encourage other girls to strive to be the best.[14] Honoka was again honored by fans by winning the Best Actress award in the 2006 AV Actress Grand Prix.[15] Another of her S1 videos, Hyper Risky Mosaic - Special Bath House Tsubaki (ハイパーギリギリモザイク 特殊浴場 TSUBAKI 貸切入浴料1億円), with 11 other S1 actresses was the First Place winning entry in the 2007 AV Open contest.[16] [17]

Honoka announced in her Official Blog that she was retiring in December 2008 and that her December 7, 2008 video for Premium, Pleasures of Education, would be her last.[18][19] She participated in one final event for Premium by making a round of publicity appearances at Tokyo shops on December 20, 2008.[19] She also acted as co-host with mainstream actor Nagare Hagiwara for the 2009 AV Grand Prix ceremony.[20] She has continued to keep her blog open.

[edit] TV appearances

Honoka was in the J-dorama Shimokita GLORY DAYS (下北GLORY DAYS) along with fellow S1 actresses Sora Aoi and Yuma Asami and singer-actress Aya Sugimoto. The 12 week series aired on TV Tokyo beginning in April 2006. She plays the character Nishina Natsume in the series which is based on the manga of the same name and revolves about a ronin student moving to Tokyo and sharing a house with several beautiful women.[21] She was also in the TV romantic comedy Cupid no Itazura (クピドの悪戯) on TV Tokyo which ran for 11 weeks beginning October 13, 2006 and concerned a young man with the rare disease of "rainbow balls" which limits the number of times he can have sex in his life.[22][23] In addition, Honoka played the character of Keiko in the third episode ("OL Manager") of the Fuji TV drama Unusual Story Fall '06 Special Edition (世にも奇妙な物語 '06秋の特別編) on October 2, 2006.[24] She has also appeared as a guest on a number of TV variety shows.[2]

[edit] Movie appearances

In addition to softcore V-Cinema videos, Honoka has also been featured in mainstream movies. She starred in award-winning director Toru Kamei's film Watching TV All the Time Makes You Stupid (Terebi Bakari Miteruto Bakani Naru - テレビばかり見てると馬鹿になる) based on the manga of the same name by Naoki Yamamoto.[25][26] The film was first released June 9, 2007 at a late show at the Pole Pole cinema in Higashi-Nakano and later (July 25, 2007) as a DVD.[27] She also had a major role in Noboru Iguchi's over-the-top action-horror gorefest The Machine Girl (片腕マシンガール Kataude mashin gâru?) which premiered at the Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival on March 22, 2008 and was released as a DVD on June 3, 2008.[28][29]

Honoka also had a role in the June 2008 theatrical drama Dekotora no shu: Hinokuni kumamoto (デコトラの鷲（しゅう）　其の五　火の国熊本親子特急便?) directed by Hideyuki Katsuki. The film, fifth in the "Dekotora no shu" series, starred Show Aikawa and also featured pink film actress Junko Miyashita and AV actress Maria Yumeno.[30][31] Honoka continued her mainstream film career in 2009 by starring in the Tōru Kamei directed drama Hectopascal (ヘクトパスカル～疼く女～ Hectopascal: Uzuku onna ?) which premiered at the Tsutaya theatre in Shibuya, Tokyo on December 15, 2009[32][33][34] and was released as a DVD on January 22, 2010 by AMG.[35]

[edit] Literary activities

Honoka authored two books in 2009, Little Sex Devil (小悪魔セックス ), on sex and sexuality for publisher Best Sellers (ベストセラーズ), in January 2009 (ISBN 458412213X),[36] and Pleasures of the Body, Shape of Love (体の快楽 愛のカタチ), five short stories about "men and women" published by Futabasha (双葉社) in July 2009 (ISBN 4575153494).[37]

On January 18, 2010, she released an autobiographical work, Kago Biography of Honoka: Mama, I Love You (ISBN 4-07-270580-2). The book, published by Shufunotomo (主婦の友社), gives an account of her childhood which involved kidnappers, and sexual and physical abuse. She says she was tricked into her AV debut, thinking she was going to make a CD.[38] Honoka's book is one of a number of memoirs by actresses about the AV industry harking back to Ai Iijima's semi-autobiographical novel Platonic Sex in 2000, and including Mihiro's partially fictionalized autobiography nude from 2009 and Saori Hara's My Real Name Is Mai Kato: Why I Became an AV Actress from December 2009, which adult media reporter Rio Yasuda sees as marking a trend in which the AV industry is being assimilated into popular culture.[39]

[edit] Partial filmography

Release date[40] Video title Company Director Notes
2004-06-25 Bud
蕾　つぼみ		 Try-Heart Sexia
SEA-382 (VHS)		 Saburou Kobayashi
2004-07-30 Whisper - Whisper of Beautiful Breasts
Wisper～美（エフ）乳のささやき		 Try-Heart Sexia
SEA-388 (VHS)		 Saburou Kobayashi
2004-08-27 The Scent of Temptation
誘惑の香り		 Try-Heart Sexia
SEA-392 (VHS)		 Saburou Kobayashi
2004-09-24 Fact Body
 Try-Heart Sexia
SEA-397 (VHS)		 Saburou Kobayashi
2004-10-29 Sexy Teacher's Secret Spot
女教師の秘蜜		 Try-Heart Sexia
SEA-404 (VHS)		 Masato Ishioka
2004-11-26 Ugly Dream
酷夢		 Try-Heart Sexia
SEA-408 (VHS)		 Masato Ishioka
2005-02-18 Awful
とびっきり		 Try-Heart Sexia
SEA-419 (VHS)		 Daihonzan Arakawa
2005-04-29 RE-SEX
酷夢		 Try-Heart Sexia
SEA-429 (VHS)		 Kyosuke Murayama
2005-05-29 Venus Style
 Cosmos Plan
IA-177 (VHS) RMD-335 (DVD)		 Eitaro Onuma
2005-06-17 My Report
 Try-Heart Sexia
SRV-114		 Zack Arai
2005-06-25 Honoka Nude
 Shuffle
SFLB-027		 Kousuke Kisaragi Gravure
2005-12-11 Soap Goddess
ソープの女神さま		 Cosmos Plan
RMD-410		 Toyozo
2006-01-20 Tawdry Goddess
ふしだらな女神		 Try-Heart Sexia
SRV-146		 Yuya Natsuiro
2006-02-12 Obscene MAX
猥褻MAX		 Cosmos Plan
RMD-432		 Yuya Natsuiro
2006-03-07 Deep Impact - Honoka Sell Debut
ディープインパクト 穂花セルデビュー		 Premium Glamorous
PGD-001		 Tadanori Usami
2006-03-19 Sell Debut x Risky Mosaic
セル初×ギリギリモザイク		 S1
ONED-381		 Hideto Aki
2006-04-07 Honoka Support - Your Masturbation Time
穂花がサポート アナタのオナニータイム		 Premium Glamorous
PGD-006		 Tadanori Usami
2006-05-07 Sex on the Beach, Southern Island Pakopako!
SEX ON THE BEACH～南の島でパコパコ！		 S1
ONED-422		 Hideto Aki
2006-05-26 Best Selection
ベストセレクション		 Cosmos Plan
MDS-360		 Compilation
2006-06-07 Premium Beauty
プレミアム・ビューティー		 Premium Glamorous
PGD-016		 Tadanori Usami With Sayuki
2006-07-07 Six Costumes Pakopako!
6つのコスチュームでパコパコ！		 S1
ONED-475		 KINGDOM
2006-08-07 Glamorous Sex
グラマラス・セックス		 Premium Glamorous
PGD-026		 Zack Arai
2006-08-07 Hyper – Barely There Mosaic
ハイパーギリギリモザイク		 S1
ONSD-028		 Compilation
With Sora Aoi, Yua Aida, Maria Ozawa & Yuma Asami
2006 AV Open winner
2006-09-07 Delusional Special Bath
妄想的特殊浴場		 S1
ONED-524		 Hideto Aki
2006-10-07 Lascivious Nurse
痴女ナース		 Premium Glamorous
PGD-036
2006-11-07 Pakopako Newlywed Life With Honoka
穂花とのパコパコ新婚生活		 S1
ONED-587		 Ishibashi Wataru
2006-12-07 Alluring Female Teacher
誘惑女教師		 Premium Glamorous
PGD-050
2007-01-07 Pakopako Via Swimsuit
水着でパコパコしよっ		 S1
ONED-647		 Ishibashi Wataru
2007-02-07 Kissing, Fellatio, Top to Bottom Lip
接吻、フェラチオ、全身リップ。		 Premium Glamorous
PGD-066		 Kyosei
2007-03-07 Living With Yuma and Honoka
ゆまと穂花との共同生活		 S1
ONED-698		 Hideto Aki With Yuma Asami
2007-04-07 Premium Digital Mosaic - Honoka Special
プレミアデジタルモザイク 穂花スペシャル		 Premium Glamorous
PGD-082		 Tadanori Usami
2007-05-03 Hyper Risky Mosaic - Special Bath House Tsubaki
ハイパーギリギリモザイク 特殊浴場 TSUBAKI 貸切入浴料1億円		 S1
OPEN-0705		 Hideto Aki With Sora Aoi, Akiho Yoshizawa, Sho Nishino, Asami Ogawa, Yuma Asami, MO ☆ MO, Mako Katase, Chinatsu Izawa, Megumi Haruka, Karin & Cina Miyu
-S1 entry in the 2007 AV Open
-Re-released 2007-12-07 extended to 8 hours as S1 ONED-891
2007-05-07 BakoBako Gangbang 28
バコバコ乱交28		 S1
ONED-743		 KENGO
2007-06-07 Extremely Lewd Fantastic Body
超淫らな絶品ボディー		 Premium Glamorous
PGD-102		 Zack Arai
2007-07-07 Lewd Flesh 5
淫らな肉体5		 S1
ONED-784		 Midori Kohaku
2007-08-07 Honoka's Alluring Flight
穂花の誘惑フライト		 Premium Glamorous
PGD-121		 Zack Arai
2007-09-01 Digital Channel DC41
 IdeaPocket Supreme SUPD-041
 Alala Kurosawa
2007-10-07 Together With Teacher Honoka - Women's Perverted Nursery
穂花センセイといっしょ オトナの変態保育園		 Premium Glamorous
PGD-134		 Kyosei
2007-11-07 Repeated Death, Grand Orgasm
繰り返す昇天、壮絶アクメ。		 S1
ONED-865
2007-12-07 Special Bath House Tsubaki 8 Hours
ハイパー×ギリギリモザイク 特殊浴場TSUBAKI8時間		 S1
ONED-891		 Hideto Aki With 11 other actresses
-Previously released 2007-05-03 in a 4 hour version as S1 OPEN-0705
2007-12-07 Alluring Female Teacher Vol.2
誘惑女教師 第二章		 Premium Glamorous
PGD-144		 Tadanori Usami
2008-01-07 Hyper Risky Mosaic MV
ハイパーギリギリモザイクMV		 S1
ONED-901		 Hideto Aki
2008-02-07 Harem of Amazones
ハーレム・オブ・アマゾネス		 Premium Glamorous
PGD-159		 Zack Arai With An Nanba & Karen Kisaragi
2008-03-07 Premium Stylish Soap
 Premium Glamorous
PGD-167		 K.C.Takeda
2008-04-07 Sexual Desire Goddess Honoka in New York
情欲の女神 穂花 in ニューヨーク		 Premium Glamorous
PGD-176		 Zack Arai
2008-04-19 S1 Girls Collection: Hyper-Risky Mosaic 8 Hours
S1 GIRLS COLLECTION ハイパーギリギリモザイク8時間		 S1
ONSD-188		 Compilation
2008-05-01 Teacher Honoka's Tempting Lesson
穂花先生の誘惑授業		 IdeaPocket Tissue
IPTD-350		 Kyosei
2008-06-07 Honoka's Masochistic Man Torture Special!
穂花M男責めスペシャル！		 Premium Glamorous
PGD-188		 Zack Arai
2008-07-07 Honoka's Fascinate Instructor
穂花M男責めスペシャル！		 Premium Glamorous
PGD-198		 Zack Arai
2008-08-01 Beauty Venus 2
穂花M男責めスペシャル！		 IdeaPocket Tissue
IPSD-030		 Tadanori Usami With Koisaya & Rei Matsushita
2008-09-07 Glamorous Sex 6
穂花グラマラス6本番スーパーラグジュアリー		 Premium Glamorous
PGD-213		 Zack Arai
2008-10-07 Twinkle Girlfriend
穂花が100％彼女目線でアナタとHな同棲生活。		 Premium Glamorous
PGD-220		 Zack Arai
2008-11-07 Glamorous Hip Pressure - Hip & Under Lip
穂花’S 顔面騎乗スペシャル		 Premium Glamorous
PGD-229		 Zack Arai
2008-12-07 Pleasures of Education
誘惑女教師～第三章～		 Premium Glamorous
PGD-237		 Tadanori Usami

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Infobox data from 穂花 - Honoka Profile at Urabon Navigator
  2. ^ a b "Booking Department - Honoka" (in Japanese). Ozawa Office Talent Agency. http://web.mac.com/ozawaoffice/iWeb/Site/honoka.html. Retrieved 2008-10-13. 
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  4. ^ "Honoka Try-Heart Profile & Filmography" (in Japanese). www.sexia.tv. http://www.sexia.tv/actress/-/detail/=/id=9537/. Retrieved 2008-10-13. 
  5. ^ "Honoka S1 Profile & Filmography" (in Japanese). www.s1s1s1.com. http://www.s1s1s1.com/actress/-/detail/=/id=9537/. Retrieved 2008-10-13. 
  6. ^ "Honoka". JSexNetwork. http://www.jsexnetwork.com/D_BANK/2006MAY/debut.html. Retrieved 2008-10-13. 
  7. ^ "Honoka Premium Profile & Filmography" (in Japanese). www.premium-beauty.com. http://www.premium-beauty.com/works/-/list/=/article=actress/id=9537/. Retrieved 2008-10-13. 
  8. ^ "Sell Debut - Deep Impact". JSexNetwork. http://www.jsexnetwork.com/D_BANK/2006MAY/selldebut.html. Retrieved 2008-10-13. 
  9. ^ "JAV News - Things to Know about S1 Studio". JAV News. August 2008. http://www.superjav.com/blog/?p=26. Retrieved 2008-09-24. [dead link]
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  11. ^ "DMM 2006年 DVD AV女優 年間ランキング ベスト100" (in Japanese). www.dmm.co.jp. http://www.dmm.co.jp/mono/dvd/-/ranking/=/mode=year/aetas=2006/article=actress/rank=1_20. Retrieved 2008-10-13. 
  12. ^ "DMM 2007年 DVD AV女優 年間ランキング ベスト100" (in Japanese). [1]. http://www.dmm.co.jp/mono/dvd/-/ranking/=/mode=year/aetas=2007/article=actress/rank=1_20. Retrieved 2008-10-13. 
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  14. ^ "Honoka Takes Top Prize at Adult Broadcasting Awards". www.bigempire.com. March 2007. http://www.bigempire.com/sake/honoka_adult.html. Retrieved 2008-10-14.  Reprinted June 8, 2008 in Tokyo Reporter
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  18. ^ "Honoka Blog 2008年 12月" (in Japanese). honoka620.exblog.jp. http://honoka620.exblog.jp/m2008-12-01/. Retrieved 2009-02-15. [dead link]
  19. ^ a b "Honoka Announces Retirement!". JAV Stars. December 13, 2008. http://javstars.wordpress.com/2008/12/13/honoka-announces-retirement/. Retrieved 2009-02-16. 
  20. ^ "AVGP 2009 Result announcement" (in Japanese). www.av-gp.com. http://www.av-gp.com/news/avgp_result/bottom.html. Retrieved 2009-03-02. 
  21. ^ "Shimokita GLORY DAYS [下北GLORY DAYS"]. www.jdorama.com. http://www.jdorama.com/drama.1150.htm. Retrieved 2008-10-13. 
  22. ^ "Cupid no Itazura [クピドの悪戯"]. www.jdorama.com. http://www.jdorama.com/drama.1063.htm. Retrieved 2008-10-13. 
  23. ^ "クピドの悪戯" (in Japanese). TV Tokyo. http://www.tv-tokyo.co.jp/cupid/. Retrieved 2008-10-13. 
  24. ^ "世にも奇妙な物語　'06秋の特別編" (in Japanese). Drama House Cheerful. http://drama.cheerful.pupu.jp/?eid=371557. Retrieved 2008-10-13. 
  25. ^ "テレビばかり見てると馬鹿になる (Watching TV All the Time Makes You Stupid)" (in Japanese). CinemaTopics. http://www.cinematopics.com/cinema/works/output2.php?oid=8063. Retrieved 2008-10-14. 
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  28. ^ "IMDb - Kataude mashin gâru (2008)". IMDb. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1050160/. Retrieved 2008-10-14. 
  29. ^ "Official Site - The Machine Girl" (in Japanese). /www.spopro.net. http://www.spopro.net/machinegirl/. Retrieved 2008-10-14. 
  30. ^ "デコトラの鷲（しゅう）　其の五　火の国熊本親子特急便" (in Japanese). AllCinema. http://www.allcinema.net/prog/show_c.php?num_c=330609. Retrieved 2011-12-04. 
  31. ^ "Dekotora no shu: Hinokuni kumamoto". IMDb. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1254952/. Retrieved 2011-12-04. 
  32. ^ "ヘクトパスカル～疼く女～" (in Japanese). Cinema Today. http://www.cinematoday.jp/movie/T0008327. Retrieved 2010-03-26. 
  33. ^ "Hectopascal: Uzuku onna". IMDb. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1569403/. Retrieved 2010-03-26. 
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  37. ^ "体の快楽 愛のカタチ (新書)" (in Japanese). www.amazon.co.jp. http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4575153494. Retrieved 2010-04-03. 
  38. ^ "穂花 「籠(かご)」―BIOGRAPHY OF HONOKA (単行本)" (in Japanese). www.amazon.co.jp. http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4072705802. Retrieved 2010-04-03. 
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