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Maria Ozawa (小澤マリア, Ozawa Maria^?), also known as Miyabi (みやび, Miyabi^?) (born January 8, 1986), is a Japanese AV idol.

Life and career

Like AV idols Tina Yuzuki and Anna Ohura, Maria Ozawa is of mixed-race parentage. Her mother is Japanese and her father is French-Canadian,^[2] which gives her a look that has been described as "a perfect balance of Japanese beauty mixed with a dash of exoticism."^[2] Since she attended an international school from primary school to high school, she claims that her English reading and writing ability is better than her Japanese.^[3] While at school, she played hockey every day, and often went to karaoke after class.^{[3] [4]} Her hobbies include cooking, which she is good at, and watching AVs on her flatscreen television set.^[4] She also enjoys playing video games, and owns a pink Nintendo DS Lite,^[5] and a pink PlayStation 2 console.^[6]

Ozawa had her first sexual experience at the age of 13,^[3] and learned the "48 sexual positions" through a book that she bought herself.^[3] She first encountered AVs by watching several tapes that belonged to a friend's brother.^[3] Unlike most AV actresses, Ozawa was not scouted. Instead, she was introduced to the AV industry through a friend that was working in AVs.^[3] Ozawa was interested in the industry, and researched companies until she found B-open, a model agent which she liked. She applied for an interview with the company and was accepted.^[4] She started modeling as Miyabi for the site Shirouto-Teien.com in June 2005, which resulted in several sets of photographs and a short hardcore gonzo video released in CD-R and DVD-R formats.^[7] She was then signed by the S1, an AV company that produces light hardcore pornography, premiering for them as Maria Ozawa on October 7, 2005 with the video New Face – Number One Style (新人xギリモザ ナンバーワンスタイル).^[8] Ozawa remembers that she was so nervous during the filming of her first AV that she could not look the male actor in the face.^[3]

At S1, Ozawa subsequently appeared in one original video per month until February 2007. She has also participated in several S1 compilation videos including the company’s entry in 2006 AV Open, a competition between Japanese pornographic studios that aims deciding which studio can produce the highest selling video. The video, Hyper – Barely There Mosaic (ハイパーギリギリモザイク) that featured Maria Ozawa, among other AV idols Sora Aoi, Yua Aida, Yuma Asami, and Rin Aoki won the first place. Maria Ozawa and S1 parted ways in early 2007.^[9] Along with Rin Suzuka, Reina Matsushima and Rin Aoki, she moved from the safe, but popular S1 to a new startup company, Dasdas (DAS).^[10] On April 25, 2007, Dasdas released the first videos of the company, among which is a video featuring Maria Ozawa. Dasdas videos contain scenes of rape, creampie, urolagnia, enema and physical torture, themes not featured in the light hardcore style of her S1 videos. Her first "interracial" title Multiple Black Rape (黒人輪姦) was released from Dasdas in May 2008.

By the end of 2007, she signed (not exclusively) to Attackers' (アタッカーズ), an established AV studio that specialises in thematic rape pornography.^[11] In June of 2008 she changed studios once again, going to the small start-up studio Ranmaru^{[12] [13]} which released her first video with them on July 19, 2008. The latter part of 2008 has seen Ozawa in a variety of videos from different producers including her first lesbian video (W Cast Premium Lesbian) for LADYxLADY, a division of the Japanese porn conglomerate Soft on Demand.

Besides adult videos, she has appeared in V-Cinema films, a photobook and several glamour ("gravure") videos. She has also appeared on Japanese MTV,^[2] and in Yokohama hip hop group DS455's music video for the song "Summer Time in the D.S.C.".

During a 2007 interview, Ozawa reported that her interest in the AV industry remains high, and her video cabinet contains nothing but AVs. She makes a good living from the industry, living in a mansion (a high-class apartment) with a US$1,682-per-month rent, and earning a minimum of $8,000 per month.^[4] However, while she says that she would quit the industry only if she is forced to do something else, she would try to prevent a friend from beginning work in the AV industry.^[4] Ozawa's family and friends are against her chosen profession, in spite of her apparent pride in her work. When she brought several of her videos home to show her parents, they refused to watch them and told her to get out.^[4]

Filmography

See Maria Ozawa filmography

Photobooks

• 小澤マリア1st.写真集 X・Star（Maria Ozawa's 1st Photobook – X・Star） – May 23, 2006, 彩文館出版 (ISBN 4775601296)

References

Sources

• "小澤マリア – Ozawa Maria (Profile)". 'Web I-dic'. Retrieved on 2007-08-30. (Japanese)
• "カリスマＡＶ女優・小澤マリアに独占インタビュー（前編） Exclusive Interview with Charismatic AV Actress Maria Ozawa, Pt.1" (in Japanese). www.ohmynews.co.jp (2007-08-29). Retrieved on 2007-08-30. (Japanese)
• "カリスマＡＶ女優・小澤マリアに独占インタビュー（後編） Exclusive Interview with Charismatic AV Actress Maria Ozawa, Pt.2" (in Japanese). www.ohmynews.co.jp (2007-08-30). Retrieved on 2007-08-30. (Japanese)
• Official blog (Japanese)
• "小澤マリア (Attackers profile and filmography)" (in Japanese). www.attackers.net. Retrieved on 2008-03-30.
• "小澤マリア (Dasdas profile and filmography)" (in Japanese). www.dasdas.jp. Retrieved on 2008-03-30.
• "小澤マリア (S1 profile and filmography)" (in Japanese). s1s1s1.com. Retrieved on 2008-03-30.
• (translation of: "小澤マリアの部屋へようこそ" (in Japanese). BESTVIDEO. Retrieved on 2007-07-30.)
• "Maria Ozawa profile" (in Japanese). b-open.tv. Retrieved on 2008-03-30.
• "みやび (Miyabi profile)" (in Japanese). shirouto-teien.com. Archived from the original on 2006-11-23. Retrieved on 2008-03-30.
• "海外で愛される日本のAV　一番人気は小澤マリア "The Best-Loved Japanese AV Overseas: Most Popular is Maria Ozawa"" (in Japanese). news.ameba.jp (2008-06-15). Retrieved on 2008-06-30.