Akira Watase /

Akira Watase (渡瀬晶, Watase Akira) was a popular and prolific Japanese AV idol who retired from the adult video industry in 2005. Akira Watase was born July 2, 1980 in Tokyo, Japan.). Her AV debut was in the May 2000 Media Station Cosmos Plan release, Venus. After a number of other videos for various AV companies, Watase retired in 2001 but returned to the AV industry in 2002. Upon her return, she began making videos for Moodyz, a studio she worked with for most of the rest of her career. In July 2002, she appeared in the interracial Moodyz video, Black Semen in L.A. (ブラックザーメン in L.A., Burakku Zāmen in L.A.), which was shot in Los Angeles, California. In this video she engaged in group sex with five African-American men. She was also featured in another interracial video for Moodyz, Black Swap in L.A, which was released in February, 2003. In addition to her hardcore work, Watase also starred in the softcore V-Cinema erotic drama Pretty Bus Tour Guide (綺麗なバスガイドさん, Kirei na Basu Gaido san) which came out in November, 2004. Over the course of her adult film career Watase starred in over 200 releases and was considered to be one of the most popular stars of the genre until she retired