Mihiro Taniguchi (Japanese: 谷口 みひろ, Hepburn: Taniguchi Mihiro), real name

Hiromi Yamase (山瀬 ひろみ, Yamase Hiromi),[2] is a Japanese actress, singer,

fiction writer,[3] TV entertainer (notices artist) and former adult video (AV)
actress.

Mihiro
谷口 みひろ

Mihiro at Asia Adult Expo 2010
Born
Hiromi Yamase
May 19, 1982 (age 37)[1]
Niigata Prefecture, Japan
Other names
Mihiro Taniguchi
Height
1.53 m (5 ft 0 in)
Website
www.mihiro.tv
Life and career Edit

Mihiro was born in Niigata prefecture on May 19, 1982. She began a career as a
softcore nude model as early as May 2001 when her video Dream (どりーむ) was
released followed by the publication of the similarly named photobook Dream (夢) in
August 2002.[4][5] She appeared in a number of other softcore nude modeling videos
and photobooks over the next year and a half.[6] Mihiro also acted in several
softcore V-Cinema productions during this time including the 2003 comedy Heisei
Sekuhara Bushidou (平成セクハラ武士道 たそがれ助兵衛) directed by Naoyuki Tomomatsu.[7]
and Kōji Kawano's 2004 Chakuero no onna Karina (着エロの女 ＫＡＲＩＮＡ).[8] She was
also featured as a singer in a J-Pop Maxi single titled Sunflower (ヒマワリ) for
Dream Robot in October 2004.[9]

AV debut – Alice Japan & MAX-A Edit

Mihiro made her transition from nude model to AV actress in January 2005 when Alice
Japan released her debut adult video Little Angel.[10] A month later, she made her
first video for the MAX-A studio, Super Star. For the next two and a half years
until mid-2007, Mihiro made about one AV a month alternating between Alice Japan
and MAX-A.[11] At the same time, Mihiro was also appearing on TV in the TV-Asahi
drama Tokumei Kakarichō Tadano Hitoshi' (特命係長·只野仁) or Mission Section Chief
Hitoshi Tadano. She was in Episode 1 of the second year series (Whole Episode 12)
of the program broadcast on January 14, 2005.[12][13]

She began 2006 with a regular role in TV Tokyo's romantic comedy, 2nd House (2nd ハ
ウス, 2nd Hausu), which ran in 12 episodes from January to March 2006.[14][15] In
April 2006, she was one of the leads in the V-Cinema horror film, Zombie Self-
Defense Force directed by pink film and horror movie director Naoyuki Tomomatsu.
[16] Throughout 2006, she continued appearing in monthly adult videos for MAX-A and
Alice Japan.[11]

In another genre, Mihiro was the star of the November 2006 V-Cinema release Yo-Yo
Sexy Girl Cop (スケパン刑事　バージンネーム＝諸見栄サキ), an erotic parody of the manga-
inspired movie Yo-Yo Girl Cop. She played a teenaged undercover government agent
armed with a steel yo-yo and see-through panties.[17][18] One reviewer commented
that Mihiro's was "the only performance of note". The DVD was released in the US
with English subtitles in November 2008.[19]

Mihiro continued her singing career with an all AV Idol group, the "Man-zoku ディー
バ Divas" which originally consisted of Mihiro, Akiho Yoshizawa and Naho Ozawa.
Ozawa later left the group which was eventually expanded to five singers.[20][21]

Mihiro's final videos for the MAX-A and Alice Japan studios were released in the
first half of 2007.[11] She returned to TV work in 2007 as a regular cast member in
the TV Asahi suspense drama Tissue (ティッシュ, Tisshu) which was broadcast April–
June 2007[22][23] and she also appeared as a guest star in Episode 1 of the erotic
drama Shinjuku swan (新宿スワン　歌舞伎町スカウトサバイバル, Shinjuku suwan kabukichou
sukauto sabaibaru) which was aired by TV Asahi in August 2007.[24]

Maxing & S1 Edit

From July 2007, Mihiro began making videos with two new AV studios, Maxing[25] and
S1 No. 1 Style.[26] She kept to her previous pattern of doing one movie per month,
alternating between the two companies.[11] At the 2007 Vegas Night Moodyz Awards,
Mihiro took the 2nd Place Award for Best Actress and her debut video for S1, Hyper-
Risky Mosaic Mihiro, directed by Hideto Aki, won the Best Title Award.[27]

In the mainstream film arena, she starred as Ms Lin, the owner of a dumpling shop
with a "secret ingredient", in director Kōji Kawano's 2008 V-Cinema erotic horror-
comedy Cruel Restaurant.[28] She had previously worked with Kawano in the 2004
video Chakuero no onna Karina.[8] Along with other S1 actresses Sora Aoi, Yuma
Asami and Rio, Mihiro was one of the regular cast members doing songs and comedy on
the late night TV Osaka variety show Please Muscat (おねがい マスカット, Onegai
Muscat) which began broadcasting in April 2008.[29] She has also done a number of
TV skits with Japanese comedian Ken Shimura.[30]

In 2009 Mihiro continued her AV career with S1 and Maxing but she also appeared in
roles in theatrical movies, the first being in March, in the drama SR: Saitama's
Rapper (ＳＲ　サイタマノラッパー, SR: Saitama no rappā), also known as 8000 Miles. The
movie, directed by Yū Irie, follows a group of aspiring rap singers in Tokyo's
Saitama prefecture.[31] The film was awarded the Grand Prix at the 19th Yubari
International Fantastic Film Festival in 2009.[32] In June 2009 she was in Ju-on:
White Ghost / Black Ghost, part of the famous Japanese Ju-on series re-made in the
US as The Grudge.[33] Later, in July she had a part in the action-horror gore-fest
by director Kengo Kaji, Samurai Princess: Devil Princess.[34]

Autobiography and retirement Edit

Mihiro published an autobiographical memoir titled nude, detailing her early life
and entry into AV. The book (ISBN 4-06215449-8) was released by Kodansha on May 19,
2009.[35] Her book is one of a number of autobiographical works by actresses about
the AV industry going back to Ai Iijima's novel Platonic Sex in 2000, and including
Saori Hara's My Real Name Is Mai Kato: Why I Became an AV Actress from December
2009, and Honoka's 2010 book Biography of Honoka: Mama, I Love You, which adult
media reporter Rio Yasuda sees as marking a trend in which the AV industry is being
assimilated into popular culture.[36]

Also in 2009, she traveled to Korea to promote a four-part dramatic TV series

Korean Classroom, a joint Korean-Japanese production which aired on Korean TV in
May 2009. The series, which also starred AV Idols Sora Aoi and Rio (Tina Yuzuki),
deals with three Japanese girls who travel to Korea and fall for some local men.
[37]

In 2010, in addition to her regular schedule of adult videos for S1 and Maxing, she
starred in the low-budget comedy Running on Empty (ランニング・オン・エンプティ,
Ranningu on enputi), released in February and directed by Dai Sakō.[38] In May
2010, it was announced that Mihiro's autobiographical work nude would be made into
a movie starring Naoko Watanabe and directed by Yuichi Onuma. The movie started
shooting in May and was released on September 10th, 2010.[39][40][41]
Earlier in the year Mihiro had announced her retirement from AV[39][40] and her
last two videos were Mihiro Channel for Maxing[42] and her retirement work, the 2-
disc Mihiro Final - Special Technique on June 19, 2010 for S1.[43] In 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. Mihiro finished in 83rd place in the balloting.[44]

Later career Edit

In 2013, Mihiro starred in the Toho comedy Goddotan kiss patience Championship -
The Movie, a film adaption of the popular TV Tokyo variety show.[45] Mihiro played
the part of Yurufuwa-chan in Arasa-chan Uncensored (アラサーちゃん 無修正, Arasa-chan
Mushusei), the TV Tokyo comedy about a group of 30-something women starring gravure
idol Mitsu Dan, which aired July–October 2014.[46] Since 2017 she's been a member
of the newly reformed Ebisu Muscats and performs regularly with the band.[47] She
also discontinued the selling of her former AV work from DMM.com by the so-called
"5-year rule" (introduced around 2016), that allows AV actresses to stop the
mainstream distribution of their videos 5 years after retirement.[48]

Filmography Edit

Theatrical films Edit

Ori Nyosho Reika Shukan (檻 Prison Girl) (November 2006)
8000 Miles (ＳＲ　サイタマノラッパー, SR: Saitama no rappā) (March 2009)
Ju-on: White Ghost / Black Ghost (June 2009)
Samurai Princess: Devil Princess (July 2009)
Running on Empty (ランニング・オン・エンプティ, Ranningu on enputi) (February 2010)
nude (September 2010)
Goddotan kiss patience Championship - The Movie (June 2013)
Gravure videos Edit
Release date[49] Video title Company Director Notes
2002-05-25 Dream
どりーむ Eichi Publishing
BEV-60-21
2004-04-25 Naked
裸体 Shuffle Believe
SFBV (VHS)
SFLB-011 (DVD)
2004-12-16 NIM Product X
NIM 的製品×
FRDV-40720
2004-12-31 Mihiro
みひろ MAX-A Pure Max
PMX-001
2005-03-25 3165 Mihiro GO!
3165 みひろ GO！ Bauhaus
BHD-611
Adult videos (AV) Edit
V-Cinema Edit
Release date[50] Video title Company Director Notes
2003-04-25 The Train Rape Access 6
ザ・痴漢ネット　ＡＣＣＥＳＳ　６ Museum Mermaid
DMMD-5599
2003-09-22 Teacher Machi : Let's Seaside School
マチコ先生 Let's 臨海学校 TMC Oscar
DOS-004 With Maiko Kazano
2004-01-22 Heisei Sekuhara Bushidou
平成セクハラ武士道 TMC Taboo7
DVTR-030 Naoyuki Tomomatsu With Miki Asaoka, Taiki Ezawa & Yuna Aoba
2004-11-25 Chakuero no onna Karina
着エロの女 ＫＡＲＩＮＡ Museum Mermaid
MMD-0871 Kōji Kawano With Madoka Arai & Hiroshi Hatakeyama
2005-09-07 Swaying in the Train
揺れる電車の中で OnlyHearts
CCDV-0054
2006-07-28 The Inner Palace: Indecent War
大奥　淫の乱　花びら燃ゆ Max-A Pure Max
PMX-005 Kunihiro Hasegawa With Akiho Yoshizawa, Ayano Murasaki, Anri Mizuna,
Kyōko Kazama, Nana Miyachi, Lemon Hanazawa & Shinobu Ebihara
2006-08-31 The Inner Palace: Flower of War
大奥 蕾の乱 明日への契り Max-A Pure Max
PMX-006 Kunihiro Hasegawa With Akiho Yoshizawa, Anri Mizuna, Kyōko Kazama, Nana
Miyachi, Lemon Hanazawa, Ruri Shiratori, Satomi Shinozaki & Shinobu Ebihara
2006-11-22 Yo-Yo Sexy Girl Cop
スケパン刑事　バージンネーム＝諸見栄サキ
Sukepan deka: Bājin nēmu = Moromie Saki GP Museum Daigo Udagawa With Yuuken
Yoshida, Shou Nishino & Rio Nakamura
Released in US 2008-11-11
2007-03-27 Swimsuit Spy - SPY GIRLS
水着スパイ　～SPY GIRLS～
SMizugi Supai - SPY GIRLS Orustak Pictures Yu Irie With Yūri Morishita,
Tomomi Obuchi, Saya Hikita, Arisa Oda & Yuri Kimura
2008-01-25 Cruel Restaurant
残酷食堂
Zankoku hanten GP Museum Kōji Kawano Released in US 2008-12-02
Photobooks Edit

Dream (夢, Yume) [Dream] (in Japanese), Eichi, August 5, 2002, ISBN 4-7542-1535-4.
Mihiro - Mx6 (みひろ写真集　M×6) (in Japanese), Eichi, March 25, 2004, ISBN 4-7542-
1574-5.
マイウェイ出版 [Diva] (in Japanese), 10, My Way, July 20, 2004, ISBN 4-86135-054-9.
Video games Edit

Ryu Ga Gotoku (Yakuza), voicing Mai, a character in a special sub-scenario,

December 2005
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