Yuri Komuro

Yuri Komuro
Born (1976-07-28) July 28, 1976[1]
Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Height 1.57 m (5 ft 2 in)

Yuri Komuro (小室友里 Komuro Yuri) (born July 28, 1976 in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan) is a Japanese actress, author and former AV idol. She was one of the top actresses in the AV field during the late 1990s[2] and in her dominant period from 1996 to 1999 was called "The AV Queen".[3]

Life and career

Early life and AV career

Yuri Komuro, who was born in Japan's Kanagawa Prefecture on July 28, 1976, commented in a news article, "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.[4] 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."[4] Komuro made her AV debut at age nineteen with h.m.p. on their Tiffany label in January 1996. Komuro continued working for h.m.p. for her first two years in the AV industry.[5]

In January 1998 Komuro appeared in the Alice Japan video Sexy Butt directed by Tohjiro[6] and starred in a number of other Alice Japan series over the next two years.[7] In May 1998, Komuro was featured in the pseudo-documentary style adult video Legend Of An AV Idol directed by Kei Morikawa for Atlas21.[8]

Komuro took advantage of her popularity as an AV idol to engage in a business venture, endorsing 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.[9]

As a reigning AV star in the 1990s, Komuro could depend on a guarantee of one million yen (about US$10,000) or more per video.[3] In spite of her high earnings, 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]

Post-AV career

After announcing her AV retirement plans in 1999 with Last Scene, Komuro commented, "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), where she played the role of Miki, a former tantai (star-quality) AV actress whose adult video career is kept a secret from her husband.[10] Kei Morikawa, Komuro's AV director from her Atlas21 days, has a role as an AV director.[11] The film was presented at several international film festivals, including the Venice Film Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival.[12][13] 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.[14] It was released theatrically in Japan on October 27, 2001.[15]

In April 2002, Komuro co-starred with Kyoko Aizome in the Shintōhō Eiga pink film Molester In a Hospital which was also directed by Aizome. The film, mixing mystery and eroticism, involves a hospital where several patients and staff have been raped on the night shift. The hospital's head (Kyoko Aizome) wants to avoid damaging the hospital's reputation and brings in an undercover investigator (Yuri Komuro) under the guise of a patient counselor.[16][17] The movie was also released as a video on the Alice Japan Babylon label (KR-9172) in October 2002.[18]

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 1998 a collection of these essays were published under the title Bare Faced (素顔).[19] When fellow AV idol Runa Hoshizaki gave Komuro an introduction, she began pursuing writing as a career.[2] Komuro wrote sex-advice articles, conducted interviews with sex industry workers, and wrote pieces which were serialized in journals.[2]

In 2006, it was reported that Komuro had moved on to a second career in journalism, covering the field of erotic entertainment.[20] In spite of her lifelong 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]

Selected filmography

Adult videos (AV)

Release date[21] Video title Company Director Notes
1996-01-23 New Sensual Princess Chapter 2
新官能姫第2章魅せられて
h.m.p. Tiffany
NTF-001
Yukihiko Shimamura AV debut[5]
1996-03-26 The Wife is a High School Student
おさな妻は女子校生
h.m.p. Tiffany
NTF-006
Yukihiko Shimamura
1996-05-24 Dedicated to You…
なすがままに濡れちゃった
h.m.p. Tiffany
NTF-010
Yukihiko Shimamura
1996-07-29 Hanky Panky Baby
おしゃまな友里ちゃん
h.m.p. Tiffany
NTF-018
Yukihiko Shimamura
1997-08-29 Yarisugi Tutor 7 / Overdoing Private Teacher 7
やりすぎ家庭教師7
h.m.p. Miss Christine
UMC-018
Midori Moriguchi
1997-10-31 Is the Female Doctor's Hip Wet?
女医の尻は濡れているか
h.m.p. Miss Christine
UMC-022
Midori Moriguchi
1997-10-31 Woman in the Darkness
闇に抱かれた女
h.m.p. EightMan
UE-010
Midori Moriguchi With Kaori Uchida, Sanae Asoh & Mao Misaki
1997-11-30 The Kageki
ザ・カゲキ
h.m.p. Samm
USV-027
Ryutaro Kanno
1998-01-23 Sexy Butt
女尻
Mejiri
Alice Japan
KA-1865
Tohjiro
1998-02-25 Kozenwaisetsu 25
口全ワイセツ25
h.m.p. Samm
TSV-005
Ryutaro Kanno
1998-03-24 (VHS)
1998-09-25 (VCD)
1999-04-23 (DVD)
Reverse Soap Heaven
逆ソープ天国
Alice Japan Babylon
KR-9068
Masayuki Naruse
1998-05-25 Legend of an AV Idol
AVアイドル伝説
Atlas21
8A-055
Kei Morikawa
1998-06-23 (VHS)
1999-01-22 (DVD)
Inhumanity / Give Up Human Being
人間廃業
Alice Japan Babylon
KR-9073
Kunihiro Hasegawa
1998-07-31 Saint Prostitute / St. Lady Molester
聖☆痴女
Alice Japan Babylon
KR-9076
Katsuyuki Hirano
1998-08-16 Lingerie Dolls Vol.6 Cosmos Plan
MG-082
With Miyu Natsuki & Yuki Tsukamoto
1998-09-15 Neo Bloody Uniform Connection 44
NEO出血大制服44
Atlas21
8A-093
Kei Morikawa
1998-09-21 New Female Teacher After School Special
あぶない放課後 新・女教師スペシャル
V&R Planning Vogue
VO-184
Tohjiro
1998-10-19 (VHS)
1999-03-12 (VCD)
1999-04-09 (CD-ROM)
The South Pole 2
南極2号
KUKI Tank
KT-329
Daichi
1998-11-20 The Serial Fuck
ザ連続淫行
Atlas21
8A-112
Katsuyuki Hirano
1998-12-11 Reverse Soap Heaven Special 2
逆ソープ天国貸切スペシャル2
Alice Japan Babylon
KR-9087
Compilation of earlier videos.
With Ayumi Nanase, Ryo Hitomi, Nene Mochizuki & Sena Wakana
1998-12-30 (VHS)
1999-01-22 (DVD)
1999-05-14 (CD-ROM)
2000-02-25 (VCD)
Super Wet Love Drama / A Wet & Passionate Life
極濡れ
KUKI Tank
KT-345
Daichi
1999-01-15 Female Ass Climax 2nd
女尻CLIMAX2nd
Alice Japan
KA-1910
Compilation from earlier videos.
With Aika Miura, Mina Kawai, Ayumi Nanase & Sena Wakana
1999-01-31 Forget Me Not HRC Cher
HRC-302
1999-03-01 Anal Fuck
裏女尻
Ura mejiri
Alice Japan Babylon
KR-9094
Hiromi Hiraguchi
1999-06-30 Ochiru!
堕ちる!
h.m.p Kan
CK-001
Ryutaro Kanno BDSM
1999-07-30 Inhumanity Vol. 3 / Give Up Human Being File Vol.3
人間廃業ファイルVol.3
Alice Japan Babylon
KR-9109
Compilation from earlier videos
With Jun Kusanagi, Aika Miura, Sena Wakana & Yoko Yazawa
1999-08-27 Angel, Yuri Komuro
Angel 小室友里
IdeaPocket Angel
AN-030
1999-09-17 Last Scene Alice Japan
KA-1942
Katsuyuki Hirano
1999-09-24 Gomora's Hospital, Beauty Breast Nurse Station
ゴモラの院 美乳ナースステーション
V&R Planning Noah Special
SP-475
Kaoru Adachi With Aya Aoki & Haruka Shibata
1999-09-30 Higi Denju
秘技伝授
SOD
SDDL-051
TOHJIRO With Kurumi Morishita
1999-12-10 Rape Bondage Office Lady
愛と凌辱の日々
Attackers Shark
SHK-100
2006-05-26 Yuri Komuro History
小室友里HISTORY
Atlas21
AVD-314
Taro Matsumochi Compilation of 3 of her earlier videos for Atlas21: Legend of an AV Idol, Neo Bloody Uniform Connection 44 & The Serial Fuck
2007-11-09 Alice Pink Yuri Komuro
アリスピンクファイル 小室友里
Alice Japan Alice Pink
PDV-029
Usagi Kanda Compilation of her earlier work with Alice Japan re-edited with the new thinner mosaic censoring

V-cinema

Release date Video title Company Director Notes
2000-07-25 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 With Kyōko Aizome

Theatrical films

Release date Film title Company Director Notes
1999-04-29 Hitozuma hatsujōki furin mamire
人妻発情期 不倫まみれ
Xces Film
エクセス・フィルム
Masanori Kudō With Kate Asabuki
2001-10-27 Scoutman Argo Pictures Masato Ishioka
2002-04-26 Molester In a Hospital
痴漢病棟
Shintōhō Eiga Kyōko Aizome Co-starring Kyōko Aizome

Magazine appearances

Source:[22]

Notes

  1. Infobox data from: "小室友里 (Komuro Yuri)" (in Japanese). 'Web I-dic' (Idol Dictionary). 1998-04-05. Retrieved 2008-01-18. External link in |publisher= (help) and "Yuri Komuro". AV Idol Directory. Retrieved 2010-10-18. External link in |publisher= (help)
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Kamiyama, Masuo (January 7, 2006). "Porn starlets move on to inspiring second careers". Mainichi Shimbun. Retrieved 2008-01-19.
  3. 1 2 "AV女優最新事情 5万円で脱ぐ嬢多いため金額交渉は困難" (in Japanese). NEWSポストセブン. Retrieved 2012-12-15. External link in |publisher= (help)
  4. 1 2 "Japanese porn star, 20, losing gleam after 10 films". Fort Worth Star-Telegram. October 26, 1997. p. 14. Retrieved 2008-01-19.
  5. 1 2 "1996" (in Japanese). AV 研究所 (AV Research Laboratory). Archived from the original on 2010-02-04. Retrieved 2008-01-18. 小室友里/新・官能姫 第2章 (ティファニー) External link in |publisher= (help)
  6. "Mejiri: Yuri Komuro". Urabon Navigator. Retrieved 2012-12-15. External link in |publisher= (help)
  7. "Profile Yuri Komuro". Urabon Navigator. Retrieved 2012-12-15. External link in |publisher= (help)
  8. "The Adult Video Idol Legend, Yuri Komuro". Urabon Navigator. Retrieved 2012-12-15. External link in |publisher= (help)
  9. "Porno world spreads its legs and shoots out a few secrets". Mainichi Shimbun. September 14, 2003. Retrieved 2008-01-19.
  10. "Scoutman" (in Japanese). midnighteye.com. Retrieved 2008-01-18. External link in |publisher= (help)
  11. Scoutman (2000) at the Internet Movie Database
  12. Strattona, David (November 20, 2000). "Scout-Man". Variety. Retrieved 2008-01-18.
  13. "PAIN/ペイン Scoutman" (in Japanese). Cinema Topics Online. Retrieved 2008-01-18. External link in |publisher= (help)
  14. "Awards for Scoutman (2000)". IMDB. Retrieved 2008-01-18.
  15. PAIN ペイン(2000) (in Japanese). AllCinema. Retrieved 2012-12-16. External link in |publisher= (help)
  16. 愛染恭子の痴漢病棟 (in Japanese). JMDB. Retrieved 2012-12-16. External link in |publisher= (help)
  17. 愛染恭子の痴漢病棟 (in Japanese). www2u.biglobe.ne.jp. Retrieved 2012-12-16. External link in |publisher= (help)
  18. "Molester In A Hospital". xxx.xcity.jp. Retrieved 2012-12-17. External link in |publisher= (help)
  19. 素顔 (in Japanese). Webcat Plus. Retrieved 2008-01-18.
  20. Samson, Antonio R. (2006-01-17). "Fence Sitter". BusinessWorld. Manila.
  21. Filmography from "Yuri Komuro". AV Idol Directory. Retrieved 2010-10-18. External link in |publisher= (help); "小室友里 (Komuro Yuri)" (in Japanese). AV Idol Directory. Retrieved 2010-10-18. External link in |publisher= (help) and "Yuri Komuro". Urabon Navigator. Retrieved 2008-01-18. External link in |publisher= (help)
  22. Based on "小室友里 (Komuro Yuri)" (in Japanese). 'Web I-dic' (Idol Dictionary). 1998-04-05. Retrieved 2008-01-18. External link in |publisher= (help) and "Yuri Komuro" (in Japanese). tisen.jp/pukiwiki/. Retrieved 2008-01-18. External link in |publisher= (help)

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