Nozomi Momoi
| Nozomi Momoi | |
|---|---|
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| Born |
Nozomi Momoi September 23, 1978 [1] Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan |
| Died |
October 12, 2002 (aged 24) Shiojiri, Nagano, Japan |
| Ethnicity | Japanese |
| Occupation | AV idol |
| Height | 1.48 m (4 ft 10 in) |
Nozomi Momoi (桃井望 Nozomi Momoi, September 23, 1978 – October 12, 2002) was a popular and prolific Japanese AV idol, best known for her "baby face that topped off a huge set of boobs"[2] She appeared in over 100 movies, appearing in up to ten releases per month.[3] She was murdered at the age of 24.[2]
Life and career
Early life
Nozomi Momoi was born in Tokyo on September 23, 1978.[1] She attended junior high school in Nagano Prefecture, and remained in touch with friends there, visiting them on vacation, for the rest of her life.[2] Before beginning work in the AV field, Nozomi worked in what she called "a very normal job." Describing her daily routine at this time, she said, "I used to wake up at 5:30 in the morning to get ready for work and I didn't have time to put on make-up or do my hair... It was the type of job where I was alone most of the time so I didn't bother with it."[3] She wanted a different lifestyle, and to make more money, but she was unable to decide what sort of work she wanted to do. She was in this frame of mind when she was scouted by a representative of the AV industry in Tokyo's Shinjuku neighborhood.[3]
AV debut
When she made her AV debut in April 2001 with Dogma,[4] AV director Tohjiro's advice to Nozomi was, "You should be a bit more perverted." Nozomi claimed that she took this advice to heart and that it helped her to be less inhibited both on screen and off.[3] In December of her debut year, Nozomi was the star of the fourth entry in VIP studios' documentary-style Monthly series.[5] Her January 2002 video for the Media Station Bazooka label, Virtual Brothel, had Nozomi playing the role of a young prostitute who learns the trade from the more experienced Yukari Sakurada. Viewers were invited to compare Sakurada's veteran technique with Nozomi's fresh innocence.[6]
Nozomi enjoyed her new occupation. About her early videos, Nozomi recalled, "I was having so much fun at first that I didn't feel tired at all."[3] Unlike many AV actresses who are happy to have time off, Nozomi became known for actively seeking out new chances to perform.[7] In May 2002, Nozomi appeared in the third entry of the Forceful Exhibitionistic-Play Maniax video series. In this video, Nozomi and two other AV actresses engage in exhibitionistic acts at a pachinko parlor, a public park, and an office building.[8]
Later career
Towards the end of her life, she had become tired of the rape themes and school-girl roles which were common in her videos, but she enjoyed the fact that she was getting more dominant roles in her later AVs. "Making men play along to me is something new so it's fun to do. I think that's the type of thing I want to do more of."[3] Nozomi's July, 2002 video release, Popular Actresses Fucking Virgin Boys, was in this genre. As the title implied, the video had Nozomi and two other AV actresses have sex with amateur virgin males, including a college student and a middle-aged man.[8] Her video Home Delivery Call Girl, from August 2002, worked with a similar documentary-style concept. In this case, the actress appears at a male amateur's home to perform sex with him.[9] A posthumously-released compilation DVD released by CineMagic from 2006, entitled La Vie En Nose, includes one of Nozomi's videos from 2002. This was the first in a series of DVDs focusing on a nose fetish, indicating that Nozomi had worked in that genre also.[10]
Nozomi continued to enjoy sex both within and outside of the AV setting, and stated that she did not mind having it every day.[3] Nevertheless, the intense pace of her career was beginning to tire her. She had been making up to ten videos a month, and expressed fatigue with the AV work both in interviews and in private conversations. She told an interviewer, "...it was a lot of fun at first, but I'm really tired nowadays. To tell you the truth, I think I'm over-exerting myself right now. So I want to take a decent vacation rather than get paid."[3] She continued, "Like I said before, I enjoy the shoots a lot. There are times when I think it's hard and tiring, but the fun part is a lot greater!"[3] A friend later reported that Nozomi was planning to get married, quit the AV industry and become a stage actress.[2] Nozomi also formed an idol musical group with some other AV idols and released a musical CD in 2002.[2]
Death
Nozomi's career was still on the rise when her life came to a sudden end while visiting Nagano Prefecture. On October 12, 2002, she was found dead by the Narai River, which runs through Shiojiri. A nearby burned-out car contained the remains of her male companion.[2] Nozomi had been stabbed at least six times, covered with gasoline and set on fire about 10 meters from the car. It was reported that Nozomi's companion was a company employee in Nagano Prefecture, and that in what the police called a possible murder-suicide pact, the man had burned himself to death inside the car. The remains were so badly charred that it took hours of testing before investigators could even determine that the remains belonged to a male. According to the Mainichi Shimbun, "Nozomi seemed to have something Japan's myriad other porno starlets lacked and, at just 24, she was on her way up in the world before her tragic end."[2]
In the months after the incident, the parents of Momoi's male companion objected to the murder-suicide theory and many inconsistencies were pointed out. His parents unsuccessfully brought a case against the local police and when their insurance company refused to pay because of their son's supposed suicide, they sued Sumitomo Life Insurance.[11] In October 2006, the civil court at Nagano ruled in favor of the parents that the two deaths were due to murder by a third party. No further progress had been made in the criminal case.[12][13]
After Nozomi's death, a number of "uncensored" videos, without the mosaic censoring of the genitals mandatory in Japanese media, were released in which she starred or co-starred.[14]
Selected filmography
| Video title[15] | Company | Director | Release date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Innocent Desire[4] 青い性欲 Debut |
Dogma DDT-006 |
Tohjiro | April 6, 2001 |
| Innocent Desire 青い性欲 Compilation with Natsuki Itou & Sayaka Tsutsumi |
Dogma DDT-003 |
Tohjiro | September 7, 2001 |
| White Desire 白い性欲 |
Dogma DDT-014 |
Tohjiro | October 6, 2001 |
| MYプロデュース second season |
HRC Rouge RG-338 |
November 18, 2001 | |
| Lovely Date vol. 3 LOVE2 デート 3 With Kyoka Usami & Misa Kurita |
Media Station Bazooka BZ-78 |
Toru Okubo | November 23, 2001 |
| Monthly Nozomi Momoi 月刊 桃井 望 |
VIP VIP-103 |
Takeshi Kase | December 14, 2001 |
| Innocent Girl Mania vol. 3 ウブマニア VOL.3 |
Kuki Bouken Gorilla EG-114 |
Shinya Beat | December 14, 2001 |
| Virtual Brothel バーチャルうぶソープ With Yukari Sakurada |
Media Station Bazooka BZ-84 |
Toru Okubo | January 19, 2002 |
| Lovely Angel With 5 other actresses |
HRC Rouge RG-345 |
February 18, 2002 | |
| All About Nozomi まるごとのぞみ |
NEXT GROUP VNDS-2060 |
Isono Maguro | March 15, 2002 |
| Forceful Exhibitionistic-Play Maniax 3 強制露出マニアックス 3 With An Mizuki & Hitomi Ikeno |
VIP Chao CAO-026 |
Eitaro Onuma | May 17, 2002 |
| Momokan もも缶With An Mizuki & Hitomi Ikeno |
Royal Art GPS-193 |
May 23, 2002 | |
| Let's Do It!! 3 しようよっ！ 3 With 5 other actresses |
VIP Chao CAO-031 |
Eitaro Onuma | June 28, 2002 |
| The Best White Desire 白い性欲 ベスト Compilation with 5 Sayaka Tsutsumi & Shinobu Kasagi |
Dogma DDT-035 |
Tohjiro | July 10, 2002 |
| Popular Actresses Fucking Virgin Boys あの人気女優に筆おろししてもらいませんか？ With Kyoka Usami & Mirai Hirooka |
VIP Chao CAO-032 |
Eitaro Onuma | July 12, 2002 |
| Home Delivery Call Girl 宅配ソープ |
Atlas21 A02-082 |
Sun Matsui | August 19, 2002 |
| Live Fuck 4 Hr DX 生撮りファック4時間DX Compilation with several other actresses |
Media Bank VIP VIPD-111 |
August 23, 2002 | |
| La Vie En Nose ラ・ビアン・ノーズ 桃井望完全玩具化計画 |
CineMagic BA-044 |
Koisaburou Akai | August 23, 2002 |
| High-School Girl Confinement & Rape in Turn 42 女子校生監禁凌辱 鬼畜輪姦42 |
Attackers Shark SHK-164 (VHS) SHKD-164 (DVD) |
September 8, 2002 | |
| Red Desire 赤い性欲 |
Dogma DDT-047 |
Tohjiro | October 10, 2002 |
| Bombshell! 大暴露 Compilation with several other actresses |
NEXT GROUP XXX-026 |
T-Jaga | November 20, 2002 |
| What 8 Famous AV Actresses Do! 人気ＡＶ女優8人が！！ With Kyoka Usami, Sayaka Tsutsumi, Ai Nagase, Seika Izumi, Sayaka Ogiwara, Wakana Ki & Yuki Sawamiya |
NEXT GROUP XXX-031 |
T-Jaga | December 20, 2002 |
| Black High School Interracial With Sayaka Tsutsumi |
IdeaPocket Colors COSD-010 |
February 8, 2003 | |
| Home Delivery Call Girl SPECIAL 宅配ソープSPECIAL Compilation with Sayaka Tsutsumi, Kyoka Usami, Yoko Takashima & Elena Fujimori |
Atlas21 A0-3041 |
Tsukasa Hashimoto | April 16, 2003 |
| Group Sex Activities 4 集団部活犯 4 With other actresses |
Kasakura Publishing CAV-4054 |
June 12, 2003 | |
| After School Girls Vol.5 放課後の少女達 Vol.5 Uncensored |
Egg Store DVH-05 |
September 9, 2003 | |
| AV Box Vol.5: Girls' School Confinement AV ボックス VOL.5 女子校生監禁 Uncensored |
AV Box ABX-05 |
September 2, 2003 | |
| Super Idol Vol.35 スーパーアイドル Vol.35 Uncensored With Ai Nagase & Sayaka Tsutsumi |
FantaDream FDD-1235 |
February 14, 2004 | |
| Kiss of Life Vol.1 キスオブライフ Vol.1 Uncensored With Sayaka Tsutsumi & Shinobu Kasagi |
AV Box AOD-201 |
March 11, 2004 | |
| Tip Top X Vol.15 Uncensored Idol: Nozomi Momoi チップトップ X VOL.15 桃井望 Uncensored |
Tip Top TAD-6615 |
April 25, 2004 | |
| PICHI! PICHI! School Swimsuits!! ピッチ！ピチ！スクール水着 Compilation with 11 other actresses |
VIP GOD GOD-241 |
Rokudenashi | June 16, 2004 |
| Burusera Vol.3 ブルセラ Vol.3 Uncensored With Yuri Koizumi |
Oriental Dream ODV-104 |
September 21, 2004 | |
| Unpublished Vol.3 - Nozomi Momoi アンパブリッシュド ～未公開～ Vol.3 桃井望 Uncensored |
Masterpiece MPP-03 |
July 28, 2005 | |
| La Vie En Nose ラ・ビアン・ノーズ Compilation with Sayaka Kusunoki |
CineMagic DD-202 |
October 18, 2005 (VHS) August 25, 2006 (DVD) | |
| Tokyo Venus Vol.24 - Beauty Legend Nozomi Momoi トーキョーヴィーナス Vol.24 美神伝説 桃井望 Uncensored |
FantaDream FDD-2124 |
December 5, 2005 |
Notes
- 1 2 Momoi's AV Idol profile and Web I-dic Profile both give 1980 as her year of birth, however Japanese Wikipedia and the Mainichi news article at the Wayback Machine (archived January 9, 2006) indicate that she may have been born in 1978.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Porno starlet tied to bizarre murder-suicide pact". Mainichi Shimbun. October 24, 2002. Archived from the original on 2006-01-09. Retrieved 2007-10-10.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "Momoi Nozomi Interview". www.jmate.com. Retrieved 2007-03-21. External link in
|publisher=(help) (contains nudity) - 1 2 "2001" (in Japanese). AV 研究所 (AV Research Laboratory). Retrieved 2007-07-21. External link in
|publisher=(help) - ↑ "Monthly Nozomi Momoi". AV Idol Directory. Retrieved 2011-01-21. External link in
|publisher=(help) - ↑ "Virtual Brothel". AV Idol Directory. Retrieved 2011-01-21. External link in
|publisher=(help) - ↑ "Porno starlet tied to bizarre murder-suicide pact". Mainichi Shimbun. October 24, 2002. Archived from the original on 2006-01-09. Retrieved 2007-10-10.
...a porno industry source tells Asahi Geino... 'Nozomi was also keen on working. Where most other girls in this business are glad not to have work, she was well known for going around asking for her next job.'
- 1 2 "Forceful Exhibitionistic-Play Maniax 3". AV Idol Directory. Retrieved 2011-01-21. External link in
|publisher=(help) - ↑ "Home Delivery Call Girl". AV Idol Directory. Retrieved 2010-10-13. External link in
|publisher=(help) - ↑ "La Vie En Nose". AV Idol Directory. Retrieved 2011-01-21. External link in
|publisher=(help) - ↑ "事件発生後の ニュース記事。 (News Stories of the case)" (in Japanese). tokyo.cool.ne.jp. Retrieved 2010-07-26. External link in
|publisher=(help) - ↑ 桃井望さん心中事件 ～裁判所が他殺と認定！ (in Japanese). www.tanteifile.com. Retrieved 2010-07-26. External link in
|publisher=(help) - ↑ 桃井望さん案件 (in Japanese). www.tanteifile.com. Retrieved 2010-07-26. External link in
|publisher=(help) - ↑ "Nozomi Momoi". Urabon Navigator. Retrieved 2010-06-14. External link in
|publisher=(help) - ↑ Filmography based on "Nozomi Momoi". AV Idol Directory. Retrieved 2010-10-13. External link in
|publisher=(help), "(桃井望 (Momoi Nozomi)" (in Japanese). AV Idol Directory. Retrieved 2010-10-13. External link in|publisher=(help) and "Nozomi Momoi 桃井望". Urabon Navigator. Retrieved 2010-06-13. External link in|publisher=(help)
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|publisher=(help) - "桃井望] (Momoi Nozomi)" (in Japanese). Japanese Movie Database. Retrieved 2007-06-21.
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|publisher=(help) (contains nudity) - "桃井望 (Momoi Nozomi)" (in Japanese). 'Web I-dic' (Idol Dictionary). Retrieved 2007-03-21. External link in
|publisher=(help) - "Porno starlet tied to bizarre murder-suicide pact". Mainichi Shimbun. October 24, 2002. Archived from the original on 2006-01-09. Retrieved 2007-10-10.