Ayu Sakurai

Ayu Sakurai (桜井 あゆ) is a former pornographic (AV) actress.

She was born in Miyazaki Prefecture, she was formerly represented by T-Powers.

Ayu Sakurai was born on April 15, 1991, in Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan.

Her hobby is cleaning, and her special talents are playing volleyball and making creative cuisine.

Having an interest in the entertainment world since childhood, while living in Osaka Prefecture she made her AV debut after being scouted there.

She calls herself a "chippai actress" and touted her small bust as an appealing point.

She frequently said she was limiting the period of her activity as an AV actress.

There are various anecdotes regarding her career before her debut.

She made her AV debut from Prestige in March 2013, holding her first photo session.

On November, she won in the female department of the signboard model general election held at "Mirupoke" Kansai version.

In August, she won the 13th place in the sexy actress popularity vote which appeared as a character of Yakuza 0 and won the cast right.

She participated in Japan Adult Expo in November.

On December, she appeared, along with Ai Uehara, Kitagawa Erika, etc. in the Asian Adult Expo (AAE) in Macau as.

While a planning single actress or "Kikatan" (an AV actress not tied to any one production company), she broke through 100 appearances in January 2014, broke through 100 single appearances in October, and cast in 300 in December.

In April 2014, she was nominated only for Kikatan actress at the DMM Adult Award Best Rookie Award, but did not win.

In the Weekly Asahi Geinō AV Grand Award 2014 Actress category, she won the Excellent Actress award along with Minami Kojima and Aika Yumeno.

She held her first off-line party.

In DM14.R18's annual AV actress ranking in 2014, she played the top 10 in all three sectors.

While an exclusive actress (a popular AV actress signed to one company) in September 2015 she appeared in 200 works.

In February 2015, she joined Million Girls Z (Rika Hoshimi, Kizuna Sakura, Ayaka Tomoda, Ichika Ayamori, Anju Mizushima, hereafter MGZ).

In March, in commemoration of Tsutaya Adult opening, she was inaugurated as monthly store manager with Chika Arimura, Saki Hatsumi, Ayaka Tomoda, and Rika Hoshimi.

She later made her first appearance at a direct-to-video release.

In April, she appeared at MGZ's first terrestrial regular programme (Kakkokari) TV.

which started at Tokyo MX.

She also appeared in the Shanghai AAE 2015 with Julia and Saki Kozai.

She became an exclusive to Million on May.

On July, MGZ made their major debut with "I ♥ MGZ".

She appeared in a Shanghai event in August with Ai Uehara, Rola Misaki, and Kaede Fuyutsuki.

She earned MVP at the Sky Perfect Swimming Tournament of the 1st Sexy Actress Darake!

Million Girls Z later won Best Performance Award at the "Sexy Idol Music Festa 2015".

In November, in the "MGZ Asia Tour 2015 'Hatsukoi'" in Guangzhou, Macau, China, in which the first single live performance of MGZ started.

On December, she received the 2015 Promotion Award at the KMP Award held in Macau.

Her total number of releases, including total compilations etc., were over 800 works (as of March 2016, from a search result of DMM.R 18)

After retirement as an AV actress, she has worked under the stage name Yoshimi Sakurai (桜井よしみ).

In February 2016, she graduated from the exclusive Million and returned to Kikatan actress.

On March, she graduated from MGZ.

She received the Cyzo Prize at Adult Broadcasting Awards 2016.

And as she declared for a long time, she retired from the AV industry in three years.

On April, she released a retirement memorial work.

In May, although after retirement, she appeared in the column gravure of the monthly Cyzo 6th month of the Cyzo prize reception commemoration project.