Rui Sakuragi was one of the biggest adult video stars in Japan in the first half of the 1990s. She made her debut in 1989 and then left the industry in 1996 at the peak of her popularity. In her subsequent career, she was a stripper until the year 2000, and did some acting on TV during those years. But in the past quarter-century, fans didn't know what she was up to and rumors swirled that she had passed away. That silence ended recently. So what is the now 56-year-old Rui Sakuragi doing today? She's working as a hostess at a club in Ginza run by another top ex-porn star, Hitomi ...

Let's put the "video" back into adult video. Sure, we love all the current and recent Japanese porn stars, but let's take a trip back a few more years to remember some of the stars of yesterday, long before there was streaming or even DVDs. We previously looked at a list of AV stars from the 1990s and 2000s that Japanese men now in their forties remember fondly. Adding to this, here are seven retired porn stars that deserve to go down in history. Before the comments start filling up with anger and fury, rest assured we're not saying that these ladies are the only ex-AV idols worth ...

A recent survey published by Nikkan Spa! asked 300 Japanese men in their forties to remember the porn they consumed when younger and vote for their favorite or most memorable adult video stars. Multiple votes were allowed, which is just as well considering how stunning all these ladies are (were?). Here are the result, ranked in order of the votes they received. 1. Ai Iijima (96 votes) 2. Yuri Komuro (87 votes) 3. Nao Oikawa (86 votes) 4. Sora/Sola Aoi (80 votes) 5. Rui Sakuragi (78 votes) 6. Hitomi Kobayashi (63 votes) 7. Hitomi Shiraishi (55 votes) 8. Mihiro (51 ...