It has been a good five years since Japanese actress Maria Ozawa quit the adult film industry. Since then, she has focused on more PG-friendly films, programs and projects in her native Japan as well as in Thailand, Indonesia, and the Philippines.
Maria Ozawa is now in the Philippines to promote her first Filipino film, “Nilalang.” The horror movie stars Robin Padilla and filming starts this month of August. “Nilalang” will be part of the Metro Manila Film Festival roster in December and will also be shown in Japan, said Haunted Towers movie producer Andre Urbina.
“In Japan, they know me everywhere because I’ve been working there for 10 years. But when I go overseas, there are a lot of characteristics that people think about me—when they see me in magazines, for example.
But when I go there, they find out I’m actually different. It’s surprising for them, and it’s surprising for me, too. I didn’t know that they have these different images of me,” she said.
Biography
Born on January 8, 1986 in Hokkaido, Japan, she stands a diminutive 5′ 3¾” (1.62 m).
Her father is French-Canadian and her mother is Japanese but she was raised in Japan and speaks both English and Japanese. She began her career in adult videos in 2005 at the young age of 19. Her exotic beauty has made her one of the most popular Adult Video actresses in Japan and overseas. She has also acted on Japanese TV.
She said that she enjoyed being a porn star and would like to travel to other countries especially the United States to pursue her career. But she no longer does pornographic films and this movie she is doing in the Philippines with Robin Padilla is definitely not a porn flick.