Asami Jō (城 麻美, Jō Asami^?, born September 15, 1975) is a Japanese AV Idol from Tokyo. Tokusatsu fans also know her as the villain Shibolena in the Super Sentai series Denji Sentai Megaranger.

[edit] Life and career

Jō was born in Tokyo and was a TV commercial model before starting a career in pornography.^[2] Most Japanese AVs involve some form of documentary style.^[3] Asami Jō's videos, however, are mainly in the fictional style of the pink film and early AV.^[4]

She debuted with the Alice Japan label in October 1995.^[5] Her February 1996 release for the same label, Love Potion, told the story of a woman (Jō) who supports her boyfriend financially while he is studying to become a lawyer. She employs sex as a means to make cosmetic sales.^[6] Thrilling Club: A Scandalous Night With You (April 1996), had Jō as a married woman who meets an old classmate, with whom she and her husband engage in a menage-a-trois.^[7]

In The Beautiful Slave (May 1996), she played the role of a young woman who is unhappy with the marriage her parents have arranged for her.^[8] Obscene Model (June 1996) had Jō in the role of a woman who acts like a cat in heat. When she is taken to a veterinarian, she engages in animalistic sex with him.^[9]

In Top Secret Is Full Nude, released in July 1996, she played a woman who is raped by a man who is later hired by her husband, for whose company she also works.^[10] Almost Broken was an organized crime melodrama with Jō escaping from a gang and becoming involved in telephone sex. Like the previously-described videos, this August 1996 release was an Alice Japan production.^[11]

Asami Jō later appeared in such mainstream TV series as Weatherwoman 2 (1996) and Denji Sentai Megaranger (1997) [1] She became a TV commentator,^[2] and from 1995-1998 she was a regular on the nighttime TV show Gilgamesh Night.^[12]

[edit] Appearances

[edit] Adult Videos

[edit] Image video

• Gilgame Angel: Asami Jo (1995)

[edit] V Cinema

• La Blue Girl Live 2: Live Birth of the Demon Child (February 24, 1996)^[14]
• La Blue Girl Live 3: Lady Ninja (February 24, 1996)
• Lady Ninja: Reflections of Darkness (April 13, 1996)
• Nippon Bicycle Race Academy - It's Youth! (May 3, 1997)
• Denji sentai Megaranger vs Carranger (March 13, 1998)
• Tokyo Night Wars (May 1, 1998)
• Underage Sex Offender Report (July 1, 1998)
• Seiju sentai Gingaman vs Megaranger (March 12, 1999)

[edit] Movies

• Break Heat バクの胃袋を開け! (February 14, 1998) as Ginko Ishida [2]

[edit] TV Shows

• Gilgamesh Night (April, 1995 - March 28, 1998)
• HEN (1996)
• Shiyo yo 2 (1996)
• A Weatherwoman 2: Ryoko PuriPuri (1997)
• Denji Sentai Megaranger (1997-1998)

[edit] Pictorial Books

• "Asami Jo Pictorial" (Scholar, September 1995) ISBN 4-7962-0315-X
• "Hinano" (Eichi Press, June 1996) ISBN 4-7542-1127-8
• "Sora" (Eichi Press, March 1997) ISBN 4-7542-1154-5

[edit] Notes

[edit] Sources

• Asami Jo at the Internet Movie Database
• "Asami (Joh Asami)" (in English). AV Idol Directory. http://avidol.xcity.jp/english/info.html?aid=181. Retrieved 2007-05-01. 
• "城麻美 (Jō Asami)" (in Japanese). Japanese Movie Database. http://www.jmdb.ne.jp/person/p0763310.htm. Retrieved 2007-05-01.