Maria Takagi

Maria Takagi is a Japanese TV and film actress and a former adult video star Early in her career as a model she also used the names Yukiko Hara and Rika Inoue Maria Takagi was born in Chiba Prefecture Japan on October 25 1978 Using the name Yukiko Hara she released a gravure photo album NishiShinjuku Love Story in June 1998 She made an early movie appearance in the August 1998 mainstream film Yoi Yume Yakei a love story directed by pink film director Shuji Kataoka In November 1998 under the name Rika Inoue she posed for the mens magazine Urecco and as Maria Takagi issued a photobook of nude pictures titled Blue in December 2000 The next year Takagi starred in the erotic fantasy Mermaid Girl written and directed by Kei Marimura which reached theaters in July 2001 Takagi also had a small part in the Kyoto Broadcasting System TV show HATU Vampire Syndrome directed by Naoyuki Tomomatsu and broadcast on January 5 2002 Later in 2002 she had a role in the erotic drama Y?rakuch? yakei which premiered in Ikebukuro in September 2002 Takagi made her début as an adult video actress with the December 2002 release SuperStar for the MaxA Calen label At the time of her début AllAbout columnist Hiroshi Asuka commented on her reputation as an actress and her star quality Six months later the same writer described her as one of the top actresses in the adult field It was announced in October 2003 that Takagi would play the other woman of a married man in the Fuji TV drama series Someone is next to you but that she would be continuing in her AV career The Japanese newspaper Mainichi Shimbun reported in 2003 that she was the highest paid AV actress in Japan In late 2003 Takagi was the winner of five awards at the Kuki Incowned XCitys Adult Video Grand Prix Awards The biggest adult site in Japan at that time XCity conferred upon Takagi both the Best New Actress and Best Actress awards and the Best Video Title Best Conversation and Prettiest Face awards of 2003 In December 2003 Takagi celebrated her first anniversary with the MaxA studio with the video Maria Perfect One Year Her last adult video FinMaria Takagi was released in February 2004 completing the 15 videos that she had originally contracted for with MaxA Takagis first feature film after her retirement from adult videos was the romantic horror comedy Ghost Shout with Saori Takizawa which was first shown in Tokyo theaters in December 2004 The next year in addition to guest appearances on various TV shows Takagi appeared in two horror films the mock documentary Noroi where she played herself and the mangabased Tokyo Zombie directed by Sakichi Sato Takagi was a regular on the Tokai TV drama Keiyaku Kekkon as the femme fatale Keiko Tokumaru during its July to September 2005 run and also on the Fuji TV hospital series Ns Aoi playing the part of Nurse Nishi Tomoko from January to March 2006 In September 2007 she played Kasumi in the TV Asahi drama Kuroi taiy? 07 Supesharu a TV special movie based on the Kuroi taiy? TV series