AV Interview - Kasumi Kaho

Source: tokyonightstyle
Original posted on: 16/03/2016

Since her debut at the age of twenty, Kasumi Kaho was one of Japan's top adult video starlets in the Japanese Adult Video industry. Now officially retired, Tokyo Night Style was fortunate to hold an interview with the renown star before she left the entertainment business. For those who don’t know, Kasumi Kaho became famous for her tight, petite figure and girl-next-door appearance. Over her ten year career she acquired a huge group of fans both in Japan and abroad. If you’d like to look at a few of her videos, you can check them out here.

The following interview was originally spoken in Japanese and has since been translated into smooth English.

How did you enter the adult video business?
I was offered a job by a pornstar recruiter while living in Chiba.

So, you’re telling me you became a famous pornstar because some guy walked up to you on the street?
Well, not exactly. It wasn't on the street. One of my childhood friends befriended a pornstar recruiter. The recruiter suggested that she become a pornstar and join the adult video business, so he set up an interview for her with an agent. She didn’t want to go alone, so she asked me to come with her as a form of moral support. She’s a pretty shy girl, and she was really shy during the interview, so I ended up asking a lot of questions.

What kind of questions did you ask the recruiter?
How much money could I make? Are pornstars with dark nipples popular in the adult video business? (Laughing). Because I was asking these questions, he assumed that I was also interested in becoming an adult video star, so he offered me a job too.

Before you began working as a pornstar, what were you doing?
I was studying professional dog grooming at a vocational school.

Did you ever end up working as a professional dog groomer?
Not really. I began working in the AV business before I graduated from dog grooming school. I actually had a job offer from a pet store while in school. My plan, at that time, I was work in both the AV business and the pet store. However, my manager insisted that I either pick one or the other; that if I did both at the same time, my AV career would suffer. In the end I gave up the dog grooming career because I could do it at any age. You can really only work in the AV business when you’re young.

Have you worked any other jobs outside of your AV career?
I had two part-time jobs during high school. I worked as a waiter in a family restaurant called Lobster and I also worked in a bakery as cashier clerk.

During high school, what kind of person where you?
I went to an all girls school in Chiba. I rarely participated in my classes and usually just slept through the lesson. When I wasn’t asleep, I would be read hentai comics under my desk. (Laughing)

Hentai comics! Did other girls at your school like hentai
Because there weren’t any boys at my school, all the girls at my school were boy crazy. My group of friends liked to pass around hentai comics and other erotica and practice giving blowjobs during our class breaks.

How did you "practice giving blow jobs at school" without any boy students around?
You take an empty soda bottle and push your tongue through the hole. This trains and strengthens your tongue, so you can give a better blowjob. We were just a bunch of horny, bored schoolgirls.

Do your highschool friends know about your AV career
Of course! I was only able to keep my AV career a secret for the first six months. My ex-boyfriend was the first to find out and he told my parents. Once that happened it spread quickly until everyone knew.

How did your parents react?
By then I had moved to Tokyo, so the rest of my family was living back home in Chiba. My mom called me and began frantically accusing me of lying. I had told my family that I had moved to Tokyo to work at a pet grooming shop, when in reality I had moved to Tokyo to start working as a pornstar. She demanded that I tell her the truth and come back home to Chiba.

Did you go back home to Chiba?
I wanted my parents support, so I did go back home to visit my parents. When I got home my entire family was waiting for me in the living room. I sat down and told my family the truth that I has been working in the AV industry and that I had been lying about my pet grooming career. Surprisingly, my parents weren't that worried about me working as a pornstar. They were worried about me being forced into the business by thugs or gang. They thought I was being forced to do it against my will and not because I wanted to. My parents couldn’t really comprehend that I had joined the business on my own. After I had told them the truth, everyone in the livingroom was crying except for my father. They all asked me to stop working in the business, and I told them I didn’t want to stop

It sounds like you came from a supportive and conservative family.
Absolutely, I love my family. Both my parents are happily married. I don’t remember our family ever having financial difficulties. When I decided to join the AV business, it was a shock for everyone in the family because I didn’t fit the stereotypical pornstar background. I am really just a simple girl from a nice family.

What about your love life? How many serious relationships have you had?
(Counting on her fingers) 1..2..3..4..5..6..7? (Laughing) Four were before my AV career and three were throughout my ten year career.

How were you able to differentiate relationship sex and pornstar sex?
It’s not that difficult actually. Sex in front of the camera is a performance and feels completely different than with a lover. Of course, it’s easy for me to separate the two, but it must have been very difficult for my boyfriends.

While on set, is it all just acting? Or do you enjoy yourself?
In the end, it’s just entertainment and acting. But it also depends on the kind of scene I’m shooting. If it’s a masochistic scene where the men use and abuse me, I really like that. But most of my scenes are not like that, so I have to act.

Why did your three relationships during your AV career end?
The first guy couldn’t handle the fact that I was an AV star, so it just crumbled away. The second guy and I had conflicting personalities, so it ended like any normal relationship would end. The last guy kept using my AV career as leverage against me when we argued with each other. I got tired of him holding it against me, so I ended the relationship.

What about right now?
I’m single and ready to mingle (Laughing).

Do you want a serious relationship after retiring from the AV business in April?
Of course! Right now, I just want to find someone who wants to have fun. But, in the long run, I want to find someone I love and can settle down with.

Before your AV career were you interested in sex?
Not in sex literally, but in a general sense. I liked the erotic and the tension of sex more than sex itself.

What about fucking?
When I was younger, before working the in the AV business, I thought sex was something men can only enjoy. I thought my body was a tool that men used for pleasure. Working in the AV industry allowed me to explore many different parts of my sexuality, and I realized sex could feel good for me too. So I learned to enjoy sex.

Can you tell me a little bit about the Ebisu Mascots?
Sure! The Ebisu Mascots are an all-girl J-Pop group. All the girls in the group are popular AV stars or gravure models. J-Pop groups are really popular in Japan. Probably the most famous groups are AKB and Morning Musume. At the time AV stars hadn’t done anything like this before. So the Ebisu Mascots made the AV business much more mainstream and normal. We were able to appeal to a broader audience and were on TV interviews, doing live concerts and releasing hit singles.

How did being an Ebisu Mascot affect your AV career
Everything changed! Being on TV in a variety of different shows made my name familiar to mainstream audiences. None of these audiences would have known me if I had only been working in just the AV business. I was also offered jobs outside of the AV industry. I was invited to mainstream radio talk shows, magazine interviews, gravure modeling, and even going overseas to Hong Kong and Singapore to perform in live concerts.

Why did the original Ebisu Mascots disband?
The group was becoming increasingly popular for five years. We were performing all the time and releasing popular singles regularly. The creator of the Ebisu Mascots, Makoi Sato, wanted us to disband at the height of our popularity. When we broke the news that we were disbanding, our fans begged us to keep performing, but Makoi decided to break the group up for the sake of everyone’s well being.

How did you feel after doing your first AV scene?
It was neither positive or negative. I just felt neutral. The experience of performing in front of a camera felt so new and overwhelming that I was so nervous during the whole shoot. Having sex on camera, in front of many people, under very bright lights is uncomfortable experience. It was both exciting and scary.

How did you feel after your final AV scene?
I felt relieved. I had accomplished everything I wanted to do in the AV business and more than I had ever dream of.

How many movies did you star in?
Just over two hundred I think.

Do you watch your own AV movies?
During the first few years I did. I would watch my movies and masturbate to them sometimes. If I could orgams while watching my own movies, then I knew I had done a good job.

What was your work schedule like over the course of your AV career?
For the first eight years, I was under an exclusive contract, so I only performed in one movie per month. After my eight year contract ended, I became a free agent. So over the last two years I usually did two movies per week. That’s why I have over two hundred movies.

If you did one movie per month, you must have had a lot of free time. What did you do when you weren’t performing?
I kept pretty busy actually. I did a lot of side jobs too like participating in promotional events, gravure modeling, and V cinema. Even though my main source of income was from my AV performances, I spent most of my time working in side jobs.

What were some positive aspects of your AV career?
I got to meet so many different types people. At first being in front of the camera made me nervous, but then I got used to it and it really boosted my confidence. Seeing myself on TV and in movies made me more comfortable with my body.

What were some of the negative aspects?
I guess the biggest negative is having my family and friends look down on my career choice. Eventually, over a few years, I was able to overcome this negative because the positives outweighed the negatives. But it was hard losing the respect of my family and friends.

Did becoming an AV star make you a narcissistic?
Before becoming an AV star I had pretty low self-esteem. I didn’t like myself very much. Now, after working in the AV business, I definitely love myself. So, being an AV star boosted my self-esteem, but it didn’t make me self-obsessed.

Who are your favorite male pornstars?
Masashiro Tabuchi is my favorite. Most male pornstars just bang the shit out of me. They’re like a robot cock. Masashiro really takes his job seriously. When we were performing together it felt like we were making love instead of just acting.

Did you reject any job offers during your career?
Only one. I was offered to star in a sex toy movie. The agent sent me a picture of a gigantic dildo next to a pack of cigarettes. The dildo was easily wider than my wrist and it would have been impossible to fit inside me.

I know you’ve starred in a few gangbang scenes. Do you like them?
Honestly, I prefer one-on-one scenes, so I can concentrate on pleasuring just one person! Gangbangs are more like a party where I can only talk to a person for a few minutes.

Have you ever done anal?
I actually did my first anal video a few months ago. I’ve never done anal in my private life, it was it was first time doing it. It was a weird sensation, but it felt pretty good once I got into the scene. However, I do prefer vaginal sex.

Do you like interracial scenes?
I did an interracial scene with a black pornstar named Magnum. His penis was huge. At least three times bigger than Japanese pornstars. The biggest thing I noticed was his smell though.

What was the smell like?
Beastly. Smells really turn me on. I especially like unique scents, so it was exciting to smell him. Most Japanese men don't really have body odour.

How has the AV industry changed over the last ten years
Ten years ago the AV business wasn’t as mainstream as it is today. Today being an AV idol requires a lot more than good looks. Girls have to be multi talented if they really want to become famous in the business. Plus, the competition between stars is really high now. Ten years ago it was easy to enter the business, but now it is getting more and more difficult, especially if you want to become famous and break into the industry.

Why do you think the girls have gotten cuter?
Because the business is more mainstream now, the negative aspects of the job are slowly decreasing. Being a porstar isn’t as stigmatized as it was ten years ago. So, I think more girls are considering AV as a viable career path. This means more girls are trying to enter the business, especially more attractive girls.

Why do you think you had such a successful 10 year AV career?
When I first joined the industry, I only wanted to do a few movies and then leave. But after doing a few, I realized I liked the work, so I decided to become a fulltime AV star. Most girls think that the most important thing about being a AV star is being attractive and having sex appeal. While this is true, it’s also important to have a good personality. So I tried to be someone directors and co-workers liked. I listened to what directors told me to do and tried my best to exceed what was expected of me. I think this is why I became successful. So sex appeal can help you enter the industry, but your personality is what makes you successful.

What advice would you give to a girl considering entering the AV business?
I wouldn’t immediately encourage them. You have to be a certain kind of person to succeed in the business. I would say that if they do decide to enter the business that they should take it seriously and go all in. I think many of the girls are afraid to become pornstars, so they only do a few movies or are afraid to sign a big contract. Obviously this ends up hurting their chances of becoming really successful. Also, the most important is to take care of your body. Taking care of your body is your first priority.

What do you think you will be doing in 10 years time?
Happily married with kids and living in Okinawa.

Source: tokyonightstyle

DOB
14-10-1985
Height
153
Size
86 - 58 - 82
Cup
E
Last update: 28/03/2024 09:09:14