Yuri Komuro

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Yuri Komuro
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Birthdate: July 28, 1976 (1976-07-28) (age 31)[1]
Birth location: Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Measurements: 88-60-87(cm)
35-24-34(inch)
Height: 1.57 m (5 ft 2 in)
Blood Group: O
Ethnicity: Japanese
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Yuri Komuro (小室友里 Komuro Yuri?) (born July 28, 1976 in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese AV idol, actress, and author. She was one of the top actresses in the AV field during the late 1990s.[2]

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[edit] Life and career

[edit] Early life and AV career

Yuri Komuro was born in Japan's Kanagawa Prefecture on July 28, 1976, Komuro comments, "I've always had a strong sexual awareness, even as a kid."[2] While still in kindergarten she asked a neighborhood boy to play with her breasts. Komuro recalls once, still at an early age, inviting a university student to give her a blow job before she knew what the term meant. She comments that the resultant experience with cunnilingus would today be considered a sex crime.[2]

Komuro began studying for a career as a travel agent before she began work in the adult entertainment field.[3] Her decision to work in the AV industry was based on a desire to do something more unusual. "I thought if I did this," she comments, "I could change my life, Otherwise, I figured my future would be pretty predictable."[3]

Komuro made her AV debut in January 1996, the same month as fellow AV Idol, Miki Sawaguchi. Komuro's debut video was on the Tiffany label, a company with which she worked for her first two years in the AV industry.[4]

[edit] Later AVs

In January 1998 Komuro made her debut with Alice Japan. In the video, Sexy Butt, Komuro portrays an extraterrestrial who inspires interest in inter-galactic sexual activity from earthlings.[5] Alice Japan's Saint Prostitute had Komuro as a woman who plans to molest men on a train, but becomes a victim herself instead.[6] The same company's Inhumanity had Komuro attempting to shed her humanity through continual sexual activity. She performs fellatio on ten actors, has sex with ten actors, and concludes the video by sharing childhood memories with the AV audience.[7] In Anal Fuck, Komuro takes up a challenge to concentrate solely on activities dealing with her rear end. Examination, shaving, vibrators and enemas ensue until the video concludes with the actress fainting.[8] The concept behind Alice Japan's Queen Slut was to have Komuro seducing hapless men. The project goes awry, however, when Komuro herself becomes the victim of a "powerful group of molesters" before she can act her part.[9]

In May 1998, Atlas21 director Kei Morikawa made Komuro's career the subject of the documentary Legend Of An AV Idol.[10] Morikawa again directed Komuro in the September 1998 cosplay-themed video NEO Bloody Uniform Connection 44.[11] Atlas21's November 1998 release, The Serial Fuck had Komuro as a bicyclist attacked by a gang of rapists.[12]

At the height of her AV career, Komuro took advantage of her popularity to engage in a business venture. She lent her name to the advertising of a perfume which, it was claimed, was based on the smell of a pair of panties she had worn for several days without changing. The perfume was called "Asoko," literally meaning, "That place," a Japanese euphemism for the genitals.[13] In spite of her high earning, however, after retiring from the AV field, Komuro realized that she had not been very wise with her money. "I blew my money in all kinds of spectacular ways, What was left, I used to buy a car and personal computer. If I had saved the income from just three films, things wouldn't be so tight now. Life is hard for AV actresses once they retire."[2]

[edit] Post-AV career

By the time Komuro announced her retirement plans from the AV industry in 1999 with Last Scene, it was claimed, with perhaps some hyperbole, that she had spilled the sperm of some 20 million Japanese men.[14] Komuro later commented of this part of her life, "When I look back at my acting days, it was lots of fun. Just by following somebody's instructions to disrobe I could make millions, or even tens of millions of yen. I think back on the opportunity with a sense of gratitude."[2]

Komuro's AV industry past was reflected in her role in director Masato Ishioka's debut feature film, Scoutman (ペイン Pain?). In this gritty depiction of Japan's AV industry, Komuro played the role of Miki, a former tantai (star-quality) AV actress whose adult video career is kept a secret from her husband.[15] Kei Morikawa, Komuro's AV director from her Atlas days, has a role as an AV director.[16] The film was presented at several international film festivals, including the Venice Film Festival and the Toronto Film Festival.[17][18] It was nominated for Best Asian Feature Film at the Singapore International Film Festival, and won Ishioka the Directors' Week Special Jury Award at the Fantasporto competition.[19]

Komuro starred in pioneering porn actress and director Kyoko Aizome's April 2002 film, Kyoko Aizome's Molester's Hospital. Komuro played the role of a lawyer trying to solve a case of serial rapes at a hospital run by Aizome. Alice Japan released the film in October in AV format with the title Molester In a Hospital.[20]

Though she concedes, "Most of what I do has some sort of connection with eroticism,"[2] writing had always been one of Komuro's interests. During her AV career she had written a series of essays expressing her thoughts on topics such as friends, family, work, love, the AV industry, and sex. In December of 1998 a collection of these essays were published under the title Bare Faced (素顔?).[21] When fellow AV idol Runa Hoshizaki gave Komuro an introduction, she began pursuing writing as a career. Komuro wrote sex-advice articles, conducted interviews with sex industry workers, and wrote pieces which were serialized in journals.[2]

In spite of her life-long involvement with erotic entertainment, looking back on her AV career, Komuro says, "I never had an orgasm during a film shooting. Except when somebody worked on me with a vibrator." In 2006, seven years after retirement from the AV industry, Komuro stated, "I'm finally at the stage where I can really enjoy sex."[2]

[edit] Appearances

[edit] Selected filmography

Video title[22] Company Director Release date
新官能姫第２章魅せられて[4] Tiffany January 27, 1996
Sexy Butt
女尻		 Alice Japan Tohjiro January 23, 1998
Reverse Soap Heaven
逆ソープ天国		 Alice Japan Marayuki Narise VHS:March 24, 1998
VCD:September 25, 1998
DVD:April 23, 1999
Legend of an AV Idol
AVアイドル伝説		 Atlas21 Kei Morikawa May 25, 1998
Inhumanity
人間廃業		 Alice Japan Kunino Nagayagawa VHS:June 23, 1998
DVD:January 22, 1999
Saint Prostitute
聖☆痴女		 Alice Japan Katsuno Hirano July 31, 1998
Lingerie Dolls Vol.6 Cosmos Plan August 16, 1998
Neo Bloody Uniform Connection 44
NEO出血大制服44		 Atlas21 Kei Morikawa September 15, 1998
The South Pole II
南極2号		 KUKI VHS:October 19, 1998
VCD:March 12, 1999
CD-ROM:April 9, 1999
After School - The Female Teacher Story
あぶない放課後　新・女教師スペシャル		 V&R Planning Tohjiro VHS:October 19, 1998
VCD:March 12, 1999
CD-ROM:April 9, 1999
The Serial Fuck
ザ連続淫行		 Atlas21 Katsuno Hirano November 20, 1998
Reverse Soap Heaven Special 2
逆ソープ天国貸切スペシャル2		 Alice Japan December 11, 1998
Super Wet Love Drama
極濡れ		 KUKI VHS:December 30, 1998
DVD:January 22, 1999
CD-ROM:May 14, 1999
VCD: February 25, 2000
Female Ass Climax 2nd
女尻CLIMAX2nd		 Alice Japan January 15, 1999
Forget Me Not CherStock January 31, 1999
Neo Bloody Uniform Connection DX
NEO出血大制服DX		 Atlas21 February 15, 1999
Anal Fuck
裏女尻
Ura mejiri		 Alice Japan March 1, 1999
Female Ass
女尻
Mejiri		 Alice Japan March 19, 1999
South Pole 2 The Greatest
南極2号ザ・グレート		 KUKI Edo Wood May 18, 1999
Female Ass Climax
女尻クライマックス		 Alice Japan May 21, 1999
Queen Slut
痴女王		 Alice Japan May 21, 1999
Inhumanity Vol. 3
人間廃業ファイルVol.3		 Alice Japan July 30, 1999
Big Tits Tank Angels 6
乳TANKの天使たち6		 KUKI Gregoru Shimizu August 18, 1999
Last Scene Alice Japan Katsuno Hirano September 17, 1999
Lots Of Tits!!
オッパイがイッパイ!!		 KUKI September 24, 1999
Rape Bondage Office Lady
愛と凌辱の日々		 Attackers December 10, 1999
Inhumanity Files '99
人間廃業ファイル'99		 Alice Japan December 24, 1999
The Behind Butt
裏女尻		 Alice Japan March 24, 2000
Super Wet Love Drama Archive
ズブ濡れ人生激情　アーカイブ		 KUKI June 15, 2000
Sex Interview/ Ordinary Women's Extraordinary Desire
淫タビュー　～普通の女の異常なホンネ～		 ENGEL Alex Ogura July 25, 2000
Tank Archives KUKI August 31, 2001
Fuck 10 Nurses
ナースの御仕事		 Atlas21 Tsukasa Hashimoto September 11, 2001
Molester In a Hospital
痴漢病棟		 Alice Japan Kyoko Aizome October 25, 2002
The Neo Uniform Collection Uncut Vol.12
NEO出血大制服ノーカット Vol.12		 Atlas21 May 31, 2004
Yuri Komuro History
小室友里HISTORY		 Atlas21 Taro Matsumochi May 26, 2006
Aris Pink File
アリスピンクファイル 小室友里		 Japan Home Video Usagi Kanda November 9, 2007|}

[edit] Selected magazines

Magazine title[23] Date Comments
Video Boy April 1996
Boys May 1996
Dera Beppin May 1996 6 pages, nude
Girlfriend May 1996
Weekly Post September 1996
Weekly Playboy August 5, 1997 Swimsuit
Weekly Playboy December 7, 1999
Weekly Playboy April 23, 2002 4 pages, nude

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Infobox data from: 小室友里 - Komuro Yuri (Japanese). 'Web I-dic' (Idol Dictionary) (1998-04-05). Retrieved on 2008-01-18. and Yuri (Komuro Yuri) (English). AV Idol Directory. Retrieved on 2008-01-18.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h Kamiyama, Masuo. "Porn starlets move on to inspiring second careers", Mainichi Shimbun, January 7, 2006. Retrieved on 2008-01-19. Archived from the original on 2006-03-05. 
  3. ^ a b "Japanese porn star, 20, losing gleam after 10 films", Fort Worth Star-Telegram, October 26, 1997, p. p.14. Retrieved on 2008-01-19. (English) 
  4. ^ a b 1996. AV 研究所 (AV Research Laboratory). Retrieved on 2008-01-18. “小室友里／新・官能姫 第2章 （ティファニー）”
  5. ^ Sexy Butt (English). AV Idol Directory. Retrieved on 2008-01-18.
  6. ^ Saint Prostitute (English). AV Idol Directory. Retrieved on 2008-01-18.
  7. ^ Inhumanity (English). AV Idol Directory. Retrieved on 2008-01-18.
  8. ^ Anal Fuck (English). AV Idol Directory. Retrieved on 2008-01-18.
  9. ^ Queen Slut (English). AV Idol Directory. Retrieved on 2008-01-18.
  10. ^ Legend of an AV Idol (English). AV Idol Directory. Retrieved on 2008-01-18.
  11. ^ NEO Bloody Uniform Connection 44 (English). AV Idol Directory. Retrieved on 2008-01-18.
  12. ^ The Serial Fuck (English). AV Idol Directory. Retrieved on 2008-01-18.
  13. ^ "Porno world spreads its legs and shoots out a few secrets", Mainichi Shimbun, September 14, 2003. Retrieved on 2008-01-19. Archived from the original on 2006-03-22. 
  14. ^ LastScene (English). AV Idol Directory. Retrieved on 2008-01-18. “日本全国の成人男子２千万人（推定）のスペルマを絞り採ったＡＶクィーン・小室友里...”
  15. ^ Scoutman (Japanese). midnighteye.com. Retrieved on 2008-01-18.
  16. ^ Scoutman (2000) at the Internet Movie Database
  17. ^ Strattona, David. Scout-Man (English). Variety. Retrieved on 2008-01-18.
  18. ^ PAIN／ペイン Scoutman (Japanese). Cinema Topics Online. Retrieved on 2008-01-18.
  19. ^ Awards for Scoutman (2000) (English). IMDB. Retrieved on 2008-01-18.
  20. ^ Molester In A Hospital (English). AV Idol Directory. Retrieved on 2008-01-18.
  21. ^ 素顔 (English). Webcat Plus. Retrieved on 2008-01-18.
  22. ^ Filmography from Yuri (Komuro Yuri) (English). AV Idol Directory. Retrieved on 2008-01-18.; 小室友里 (Komuro Yuri) (Japanese). AV Idol Directory. Retrieved on 2008-01-18. and Yuri Komuro (English). Urabon Navigator. Retrieved on 2008-01-18.
  23. ^ Magazine appearances based on 小室友里 - Komuro Yuri (Japanese). 'Web I-dic' (Idol Dictionary) (1998-04-05). Retrieved on 2008-01-18. and Yuri Komuro (Japanese). tisen.jp/pukiwiki/. Retrieved on 2008-01-18.

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