Honoka is a Japanese TV personality, actress, writer and former adult video performer who retired from the AV industry in 2008.
18 Facts About Honoka
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Honoka is a licensed practical nurse and has appeared as a race queen at the 2004 Suzuka 8 Hours endurance race.
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Honoka plays the guitar, enjoys swimming and volleyball, going to Kabuki theatre and walking her dog.
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Honoka made several more videos with Try-Heart over the next 18 months and in March 2006, she starred in videos for two new AV studios, Sell Debut x Risky Mosaic, directed by Hideto Aki, at S1 No 1 Style and Deep Impact - Honoka Sell Debut for the Premium Glamour label.
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Honoka continued working with the two studios usually appearing in one video every other month for each studio.
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Honoka won the Nice Body award from Video Boy magazine twice, in 2005 and in 2006.
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Honoka was the recipient of the "Best Actress" prize at the 2007 Adult Broadcasting Awards for the 2006 broadcast year.
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Honoka was again honored by fans by winning the Best Actress award in the 2006 AV Actress Grand Prix.
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Honoka announced in her Official Blog that she was retiring in December 2008 and that her December 7,2008 video for Premium, Pleasures of Education, would be her last.
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Honoka participated in one final event for Premium by making a round of publicity appearances at Tokyo shops on December 20,2008.
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Honoka acted as co-host with mainstream actor Nagare Hagiwara for the 2009 AV Grand Prix ceremony.
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Honoka was in the J-dorama Shimokita GLORY DAYS along with fellow S1 actresses Sora Aoi and Yuma Asami and singer-actress Aya Sugimoto.
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Honoka played the character Nishina Natsume in the series which is based on the manga of the same name and revolves about a ronin student moving to Tokyo and sharing a house with several beautiful women.
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Honoka has appeared as a guest on a number of TV variety shows.
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Honoka had a major role in Noboru Iguchi's over-the-top action-horror gorefest The Machine Girl which premiered at the Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival on March 22,2008 and was released as a DVD on June 3,2008.
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Honoka had a role in the June 2008 theatrical drama Dekotora no shu: Hinokuni kumamoto directed by Hideyuki Katsuki.
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Honoka continued her mainstream film career in 2009 by starring in the Toru Kamei directed drama Hectopascal which premiered at the Tsutaya theatre in Shibuya, Tokyo on December 15,2009 and was released as a DVD on January 22,2010 by AMG.
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Honoka says she was tricked into her AV debut, thinking she was going to make a CD.