Haruki Mizuno /

Haruki Mizuno (水野はるき, Mizuno Haruki) is a popular Japanese AV, gravure idol, and mainstream media celebrity. Mizuno was born in Tokyo on July 21, 1979. She dropped out of high school, and thinks that if she had not become an AV star, she would be working at soapland. Taking her screen name from the actress Maki Mizuno, whom she considers a role model, Mizuno made her AV debut in December 1997. Her first video, Barefoot Fairy, was for the Try-Heart Corporation's Sexia label. Mizuno continued to make about one video a month for Sexia for nearly a year. Playing off her "Lolita" image, her third video, the March 1998 release Sweet Baby, had Mizuno portraying the viewer's younger sister. Her May, 1998 release, Pretty Wife 4: Currently In Training, had Mizuno in the role of a young newlywed who must endure training and discipline not only from her husband, but also from his creditors. In Sorry, from August 1998, Mizuno appeared in the popular student-teacher theme of Japanese AVs, as a student having an affair with her middle-aged teacher. By September 1998, Mizuno felt exhausted physically and mentally, and decided to take a hiatus from the AV industry, which would last two years.