Asuka Hoshino

Asuka Hoshino is a Japanese former gravure model, singer, actress and AV idol.

Hoshino was born on December 5, 1986 in Niigata Prefecture, Japan, but, while still in elementary school, she moved to the Kantō region. Her career started in 2004 when she was chosen as "Miss Weekly Shonen Magazine" in the annual Miss Magazine competition, and she subsequently appeared in the gravure video Asuka Hoshino Miss Magazine 2004 (ミスマガジン2004 星野飛鳥). Between October 2004 and March 2006, she appeared in eight gravure videos and two photo books.

In addition, she made her debut as an actress in the 2004 horror movie Shibuya Kaidan urban legends Chan Sasso (渋谷怪談 サッちゃんの都市伝説), and, in 2006, she starred in the V-Cinema release Industrial Bareboizu Lamentations (工業哀歌バレーボーイズ), a live-action version of the anime Sentimental Graffiti, which, coincidentally, features a teen idol character with the same name but different spelling for Asuka (明日香).

After a long pause, she resumed her activities in 2009, slightly changing the Japanese spelling of her name (which phonetically remained the same).

On 7 September 2010, the Soft On Demand (SOD) company announced that she would be making her debut as an AV actress for their label, and, on 16 September 2010, Hoshino appeared nude for the first time in a full-frontal photo published by the magazine "Friday". Later that month, on 24 September, a nude photobook, Asuka time (あすかの時間), was released.