14 Facts About Saori Hara

Saori Hara is a former Japanese pornographic actress, model and actress who has used the name Mai Nanami and most recently Miyabi Matsunoi or Miyavi Matsunoi.

Saori Hara was born in Hiroshima Prefecture to a Japanese mother and a father of mixed German-Japanese parentage.

Saori Hara had parts in two movies in 2005, the March TV drama The Dream of Delinquent Boys for TBS, and the April theatrical release, horse-racing melodrama Haru Urara, which was later released as a DVD.

Saori Hara had made a bikini-model photobook, Mai Nanami First Photobook, in May 2005 and a non-nude DVD titled Mai Nanami: Yamagishi Shin Digital Movie Museum which was released in August 2005.

Saori Hara became the face of the SOD group in its anti-STD campaign in November 2008, a role formerly played by long-time SOD AV actress Nana Natsume.

About the same time as her AV debut, Saori Hara posed for a set of nude photos set in Tokyo public places by photographer Kishin Shinoyama which was published January 28,2009, by Asahi Press as NO NUDE by KISHIN 1 20XX TOKYO.

However, both Shinoyama and Saori Hara were charged by Tokyo authorities with public indecency.

Also in early 2009, Saori Hara was in the TV Asahi movie Mission Section Chief Hitoshi Tadano: Season 4 Special, a tie-in to the fourth season of the manga-based TV show.

Saori Hara made a TV appearance with a major role in the late night 24-part manga-based J-dorama series Joo Virgin, which was broadcast on TV Tokyo from October to December 2009.

Saori Hara was the winner of Adult Broadcasting Award for Best Actress in March 2010 for her 2009 appearances on adult channel Midnight Blue.

Saori Hara reportedly went through a nervous breakdown following the March 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami and decided to retire from show business, subsequently terminating her contract with SOD.

Saori Hara announced her official retirement in August 2011 and a 5-disc compilation set marking her formal retirement that featured some previously non-released scenes appeared on September 8,2011.

Saori Hara revealed that for a while after her retirement she had been working part-time in a Ginza bar and that after a short courtship, she had married a man 24 years her senior in October 2012.

Saori Hara said she had been depressed and was drinking heavily before her retirement from adult videos.