Elly Akira

is a Japanese AV actress and adult model. She was formerly known as .

Biography

Yuka Osawa - AV debut Akira was born in Saudi Arabia to a Japanese mother and Syrian father and is the second of three daughters. She has stated that although she was born in Saudi Arabia, she grew up in Tokyo, Japan and was not raised in the Islamic faith.

She started her AV career in July 2005 under the name of Yuka Osawa with the video First Flower (Debut) - Yuka Osawa for the KUKI production studios and around 2006 she transferred to the highly esteemed AV studio S1 No. 1 Style. However, after a few films, she became a freelance (kikatan) actress working with many studios. She earned the title "Queen Shiofuki" (or splash queen) after a string of movies from 2007 with names like Tokyo Slimy Night, Splash Girl and Non Stop Orgasm.

Akira made her debut in the softcore genre of pink film in 2007, appearing in three titles directed by Yutaka Ikejima including Fascinating Woman: The Temptation of Creampie, which was named as Best Film 8th Place at the 20th Pink Grand Prix, a Japanese annual film awards event. For her work in these films, Akira was given one of the Best New Actress awards.

Akira (then known as Osawa) quickly became known for prolific output and willingness to appear in extreme or highly fetishist roles. She became a regular go-to-actress for studios like Dogma or Natural High and even performed the most demanding type of roles that included anal sex, S&M, enemas, and urolagnia.

In May 2008, she starred in , the best-selling fourth entry in Soft On Demand's controversial AV series Naked Continent. At the 2009 AV Grand Prix Awards, Akira (as Yuka Osawa) took two top prizes, the Digital Sales Award for her video Vomit Enema Ecstasy X co-starring Mayura Hoshitsuki for the Dogma studio, and a second award, the Best Lovely / Moe Video for her solo work Tera-Dick (Real Creampie Absolute Angel).

Elly Akira In 2009, she changed her name to Elly Akira and had roles in mainstream films such as the drama directed by Yūji Tajiri and released in Japan on 18 September 2009 and from the Love&Eros CINEMA COLLECTION which was released in October 2010. In March 2010, she was one of five actresses nominated as Best Actress at the Adult Broadcasting Awards ceremony.

Akira was on hand in January 2011 to help launch a new label Atom for one of Japan's largest AV producers, Soft On Demand (SOD). On 19 November 2011, she starred in W Monster - Golden Showers Anal And Creampies along with fellow AV actress Marica Hase.

In 2012, video retailer DMM held a vote for the 30th anniversary of the debut of adult videos in Japan to determine the best actresses. Akira was selected as one of the top 100 AV actresses of all time, coming in at number 55. Also in 2012, she starred as a female ninja (kunoichi) in the action period movie which reached theaters in June 2012.

In June 2012, she took a part in the Japanese show, where two people are placed together in an apartment for one day to see what will happen. At certain moments they post their thoughts to the Twitter. In this episode, the show places Akira together with a 21-year-old college student virgin.

Akira had traveled to Taiwan as an artist and disaster fundraiser in 2009

Akira retired from active performing around late 2012, and only made some sporadic AV appearances in 2014 and 2015 like the tentacle-porn themed 2-Hole Tentacular Confinement for Moodyz. After spending some time away from the industry, Akira announced her return in July 2019 on her new Twitter account with her returning film co-starring famous AV actress Yui Hatano.

Photographer and artist Akira debuted as a photographer in 2008 under her birth name, Fareeza Terunuma, and in 2009 appeared as the subject of her own exhibition at the 12th Geisai Art Fair. As a performance artist, she was attired as a toilet surrounded by a series of self-portraits. Her exhibit won the Award.

As Terunuma, she held a photo exhibition in Tokyo in May–June 2009 In September 2010, she had a solo exhibit at the Vanilla Gallery in Ginza. and also had her own show of artwork at The Artcomplex Center of Tokyo (A.C.T.) in November 2010. Her work's combining of art, food, and sexual desire was commented on in the "EAT ART" exhibition at the Design Festa gallery in Tokyo.

She traveled to Taiwan again in August 2012 for an exhibit of her artwork in Taipei and Tainan.

Filmography Adult videos (AV) Release date Video title Company Director Notes 2005-07-31 First Flower (Debut) - Yuka Osawa KukiAZRD-045 Kyousei AV debut 2007-07-19 Lost The Virgin By Beautiful Sis V&R ProductsVSPDS-259 Uzumaki Sasaki With Hikaru Hozuki 2007-12-15 Tokyo Slimy Night VOL.3 Teikuwan HokusaiHOKU-005 2007-12-15 Tora Tora Platinum Vol. 24 Tora-Tora-Tora Uncensored 2008-01-17 Yuka Osawa Having Nakadashi Sex in Her Room RocketRCT-003 Shingo Takemoto 2008-01-19 Splash Girl 02 - Yuka Osawa Momotaro SquirtDSQ-02 2008-03-06 SOD Rape Hospital The Premium SODSDMS-395 Nampaou With Asami, Nene, Akane Mochida, Hikari Hino, Anna Kosaka, Tsubomi & Rimu Himeno 2008-07-04 Tora Tora Platinum Vol. 45 Tora-Tora-Tora Uncensored 2008-05-08 Naked Continent 4 Natural HighNHDT-634 Sakkun 2008-05-08 The Ultimate Invention Vol.4: The Swap Men & Women Camera RocketRCT-024 Uzumaki Sasaki With Mirai Hirose, Ringo Akai, Saya Namiki 2008-06-25 Women's Semen 3 Shinoda ProjectSNYD-018 Yasuda Salmon With Hotaru Akane & Asuka Kyono 2008-07-19 Splash Girl, Whale Cow 05, 10 Girls Squirting Flood! Momotaro SquirtDSQ-06 With Hotaru Akane, Asami, Akari Hoshino, Asuka Kyono, Megu Ayase, Nene Fujimori, Rico, Ryo Akanishi & Tomomi Takahara 2008-11-21 Tera-Dick (Real Creampie Absolute Angel) Miruki IpurinAVGL-141 Winner Best Lovely / Moe Video Award 2009 AV Grand Prix 2008-11-22 Vomit Enema Ecstasy X DogmaAVGL-130 Tohjiro Co-starring Mayura HoshitsukiWinner Digital Sales Award 2009 AV Grand Prix 2009-01-16 Non-stop Orgasm Crystal-Eizou e-KISSEKDV-023 2009-02-05 Yuka Osawa Demonstrates Men's Squirting! RocketRCT-090 Uzumaki Sasaki 2009-06-18 Magic Mirror Reverse Nanpa Deep'sDVDES-192 Stephen Sotaberg With Maria Ozawa, Natsumi Horiguchi & Risa Tsukino 2009-06-19 Restraint Chair Lesbian DogmaDDT-235 TOHJIRO With Maria Ozawa 2010-03-18 Super High Class King Game SODSDMT-039 Sabbath Horinaka With Maria Ozawa, Yui Hatano, Akari Satsuki & Rio Hamasaki

Pink films , dir. Yutaka Ikejima, OP Eiga, May 2007 Fascinating Woman: The Temptation of Creampie, dir. Yutaka Ikejima, OP Eiga, August 2007 , dir. Yutaka Ikejima, OP Eiga, November 2007

Mainstream films (2009) (2010) (2012)