List of Famous Gravure Idols
- Age: 45Ayumi Hamasaki (浜崎あゆみ, Hamasaki Ayumi, born October 2, 1978) is a Japanese singer, songwriter, record producer, actress, model, spokesperson and entrepreneur. Through her entire career, she has written almost all her lyrical content, and has sometimes composed her music. Born and raised in Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture, Hamasaki moved to Tokyo at fourteen in 1993 to pursue a career in singing and acting. In 1998, under the tutelage of Avex CEO Max Matsuura, Hamasaki released her debut single "Poker Face" and debut major-label album A Song for XX. The album debuted at the top of the Oricon charts and remained there for five weeks, selling over a million copies. Her next ten albums shipped over a million copies in Japan, with her third, Duty, selling nearly three million. A Best, her first compilation album, is her best-selling album, with more than four million copies sold in Japan. Since 2006, after her album Secret was released, album and single sales have declined.Hamasaki has sold over 50 million records, making her the best-selling Japanese solo artist of all time. Hamasaki has several domestic record achievements for her singles, such as the most number-one hits by a female artist (38); the most consecutive number-one hits by a solo artist (twenty-five), and the most million-sellers. From 1999 to 2010, Hamasaki had at least two singles each year topping the charts. Hamasaki is the first female recording artist to have ten studio albums since her debut to top the Oricon and the first artist to have a number-one album for 13 consecutive years since her debut. Hamasaki's second remix album, Super Eurobeat Presents Ayu-ro Mix, is recognized as one of the best selling remix albums of all time and remains her only album to be recognized in a worldwide accreditation.During the height of her career, Hamasaki was dubbed the "Empress of J-pop" because of her popularity in Japan and Asia. Following an ear infection in 2000, she has suffered worsening hearing loss and is completely deaf in one ear.
- Age: 35Satsuki Shimabukuro (Japanese: 島袋 さつき, Shimabukuro Satsuki, b. 28 May 1988 in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan), better known by her stage name Meisa Kuroki (Japanese: 黒木 メイサ, Kuroki Meisa), is a Japanese actress, model and singer. She is represented by the agency Sweet Power and is signed to Sony Music Japan. She made her acting debut in 2004. She has modeled for the popular Japanese fashion magazine JJ, among others, and is the current Japanese representative for Epson and Giorgio Armani. She has appeared in numerous television dramas, commercials, films, and stage productions.
Leah Dizon
Age: 37Leah Donna Dizon (born September 24, 1986) is a gaijin tarento, singer, and model. Born and raised in Las Vegas, Nevada, she moved to Tokyo, Japan in 2006 to pursue a career in entertainment. She made her recording debut on Victor Entertainment later that same year.- Age: 35Yui Aragaki (新垣 結衣, Aragaki Yui, born June 11, 1988) is a Japanese actress, model, singer and occasional radio show host. She was selected as the most desired girlfriend and the most desired female celebrity face on the Oricon's yearly survey for several times.
- Age: 35Maki Horikita (堀北 真希, Horikita Maki, born October 6, 1988) is a Japanese former actress. During her career from 2003 until 2017, she starred in numerous Japanese television dramas, television and magazine advertisements, and movies, including roles in Nobuta wo Produce, Hanazakari no Kimitachi e and Umechan Sensei.
- Age: 35Yumi Kobayashi (小林 優美, Kobayashi Yumi, born November 26, 1988) is a female fashion model from Tokyo, Japan. She belongs to the show-business production Burning Production, K.K. (株式会社バーニングプロダクション) and used to belong to Platica Inc. Her show-business name from July 2007 to March 2008 was Yumi Uno (宇野 優美).
- Age: 43Yuka is a gravure idol, model, fashion model, actress, and TV personality.
- Age: 37Ayaka Komatsu (Japanese: 小松 彩夏 Komatsu Ayaka; born 23 July 1986) is a Japanese model, gravure idol and actress. She was born in Ichinoseki, Iwate Prefecture.
- Age: 38Yuka Kosaka (小阪由佳, こさか ゆか born June 27, 1985) is a Japanese gravure idol and actress. She was born in Izumi-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan. She is also known as her nickname "Yuka-chin", and has starred in a number of TV dramas and films.
- Age: 31Suzuka Morita (森田 涼花, Morita Suzuka, born September 7, 1992 in Kyoto) is a Japanese gravure model and actress who was a 2nd generation member, number 11, of Idoling!!!. She was also the 7th generation member of Hop Club. Morita is best known for playing Shinken Yellow (Kotoha Hanaori) in the TV series Samurai Sentai Shinkenger. She has also appeared in several stage plays. Morita is affiliated with Horipro.
- Age: 36Hatsune Matsushima is a Japanese gravure idol, actress and model affiliated with Harmony Promotion. She was born in Tokyo, Japan. Her real name is Noriko Matsushima, and goes by the nickname Hachu. She has starred in a number of TV dramas, films, and internet productions. She also co-authored a book.
- Age: 41Anri Sugihara is a gravure idol.
- Age: 38Erika Sawajiri (沢尻 エリカ, Sawajiri Erika, born April 8, 1986) is a Japanese actress, singer, and model, who appeared in the fiction Japanese television drama 1 Litre of Tears, playing the role of a girl who suffered from the intractable disease spinocerebellar degeneration (SCD). On September 10, 2010, it was announced that Sawajiri had signed with Avex label for talent management and music releases. She was previously managed by the Stardust Promotion talent agency until her contract was terminated in late 2009, and was affiliated with Sony Music Entertainment Japan for her early recording career, recording under the name Kaoru Amane and, later, simply Erika.
- Age: 35Erika Toda (戸田 恵梨香, Toda Erika, born August 17, 1988) is a Japanese actress.She has starred in many Japanese television dramas, including Liar Game, Code Blue, Ryusei no Kizuna, and Keizoku 2: SPEC. She has also had supporting roles in many other popular TV dramas, such as Boss, Nobuta wo Produce, Engine, and Gal Circle. In the manga adaptation movie, Death Note, she played the role of Misa Amane.
Agnes Lum
Age: 67Agnes Nalani Lum (born May 21, 1956) is an American gravure idol, singer, actress, and bikini model popular in Japan in the late 1970s and early 1980s. At that time, she was nicknamed "Lum-chan" in Japan, though now that nickname can be confused with that of the fictional character Lum Invader from Urusei Yatsura. Lum was the inspiration for the name of this character as she was well-known at the time the manga was first released (1977). In order to avoid confusion with Agnes Chan, another popular idol at the time, "Lum-chan" was used, though many fans called both "Agnes". Lum has appeared in numerous calendars, on posters, and magazine spreads, and these items regularly fetch high prices in the collectors market.- Age: 30Saaya Irie (入江紗綾, Irie Saaya, born November 15, 1993) is a Japanese actress, voice actress, gravure idol and singer. Her stage name is simply her given name, Saaya. In addition to her modeling work she has recently been appearing in numerous films, radio, and television programs. She has also done voice work, appearing in the anime OVA Kyo no Gononi as Chika Koizumi. She was formerly a member of Japanese musical group Sweet Kiss before it disbanded on May 12, 2006 to be replaced by the group Chase.
- Age: 35Yumi Sugimoto (杉本 有美, Sugimoto Yumi, born April 1, 1989) is a Japanese model, actress, gravure idol and singer. She is currently under contract with the talent agency fauvism entertainment.
- Age: 41Nozomi Sasaki (佐々木望（ささき のぞみ）, Sasaki Nozomi, born February 19, 1983) is a Japanese voice actress from Kanagawa Prefecture. She is affiliated with Haikyō. For her stage name she has adopted the hiragana rendering ささき のぞみ instead of the original kanji representation (佐々木望) of her birth name Nozomi Sasaki. (This combination of kanji characters is also used for rendering the name of Nozomu Sasaki, an unrelated male voice actor, and she shares the same name as Nozomi Sasaki, a model, which would be too close.)
- Age: 38Reon Kadena (かでな れおん, Kadena Reon), also known as Leon Kadena or Minamo Kusano, is a Japanese glamour model and actress
- Age: 43Harumi Nemoto (根本 はるみ, Nemoto Harumi, born July 28, 1980) is a Japanese gravure (bikini) idol from Chiba Prefecture, Japan. She has had a column since October 2007 in the monthly manga magazine Manga Life.
Risa Yoshiki
Age: 36Risa Yoshiki is a Japanese glamour model, actress, celebrity, and singer. She has released two singles, seven DVDs, and appears regularly on TV and radio.- Age: 41Yoko Matsugane (松金 ようこ, Matsugane Yōko, born May 26, 1982) is a Japanese gravure idol from Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. She is known for her voluptuous figure.
- Age: 38Shoko Nakagawa (中川 翔子, Nakagawa Shōko, born May 5, 1985, in Tokyo) is a Japanese tarento (media personality), actress, voice actress, illustrator, and singer. Also known by her nickname Shokotan (しょこたん), she is best known as the presenter of Pokémon Sunday, and as the performer of the opening theme from the anime Gurren Lagann.
- Age: 43Eiko Koike (小池 栄子, Koike Eiko, born November 20, 1980) is a Japanese actress.
- Age: 47Aki Hoshino (ほしの あき, Hoshino Aki, born March 14, 1977) is a Japanese bikini idol. She has appeared in various men's magazines, such as Sabra and television shows. In 2010, she was named one of the "7 most irresistibly cute Japanese idols" by the Thailand version of the men's magazine FHM.
- Age: 57Mariko Mori (森 万里子, Mori Mariko, born 1967) is a contemporary Japanese artist.
- Age: 39Haruka Ayase (Japanese: 綾瀬 はるか, Hepburn: Ayase Haruka, born March 24, 1985) is a Japanese actress, model and singer who started her career as a gravure idol in 2000. She has since become a top leading actress in television and film.
- Age: 52Fumie Hosokawa (細川ふみえ, born 2 September 1971) is a Japanese actress, singer, and model. She is often referred to as the “original” kyonyu (huge breasts) idol.
- Age: 36Ami Tokito (時東 ぁみ, Tokitō Ami, born 25 September 1987 in Tokyo) is a Japanese female pop singer and gravure idol. She made her debut in 2005 Miss Young Jump, winning Tsunku's honorable award.She started acting as a child actress using her former stage names, Sachie Komatsu and Hikaru Asakura.She featured as "Amimi" in the 2007 Tsunku produced female trio "Gyaruru", together with Asami Abe and Natsuko "Gal" Sone.
- Age: 40Nao Nagasawa (長澤 奈央, Nagasawa Nao, born January 5, 1984) is a Japanese actress, voice actress, former singer and model. She is known for her roles in various tokusatsu series, film, and drama, such as "Nanami Nono / Hurricane Blue" in the series Super Sentai Ninpuu Sentai Hurricaneger.
