Life and Career
Ami Ayukawa was born in Tokyo on February 18, 1981 and made her AV debut in November 1999 at the age of eighteen with the video New Sensual Princess - Chapter 8 for the h.m.p. Tiffany label. In August 200 she made her first appearance for the MAX-A company's Samansa (Samantha) label in Scanties.
MAX-A chose Ayukawa to star in the first entry in their Witch-Hunt series, released in August 2001.
When the February 27, 2001 issue of the Japanese magazine FLASH surveyed the AV industry for the top 30 stars, Ayukawa was ranked number one and dubbed the "Queen of AV".
Interviewed by Asahi Geino, and reprinted in an October 2001 Mainichi Shimbun news story on mishaps in the Japanese AV industry, Ayukawa said that her "most horrific experience" in the profession involved a simulated rape scene. The actress explained, "During our pre-shoot meeting, the director told me he'd make sure I was all right, so I wasn't that worried. But then, suddenly, this guy grabbed me by the hair and started dragging me along the floor. Then he began choking me so hard I could barely breathe. I was almost unconscious. I screamed out for help and started crying, but not one person came across to save me. When the scene ended, I was black and blue. The director came over to me and said, 'That was a good scene. It almost looked like the real thing.'"
In a December 2005 article on the subject, Ayukawa was cited as one of the group of AV idols who maintained a blog.
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