Nao Oikawa was born in
Hiroshima. Her family moved to Tokyo when she was a little girl. At age 18, when she graduated from high school and began design school, she met a scout who proposed she become an AV idol. "That time, my hair was bleached and curly. My agency told me to get my hair back to straight black. One day in the office, one staff picked Oikawa as family name from a book, another staff picked Nao from another book. This is where my stage name came from."
AV career ; Debut Oikawa's debut was not easy. AV producers did not think that she had special talent in their genre. She used her time for studying popular porn stars' acting (especially, she learned many things from Kurumi Morishita). Finally, Oikawa made her debut adult video at age nineteen for the
Media Station Cosmos Plan label in September 2000. Then she released some videos from
Alice Japan, Momotaro, etc., but she could not get big success. In her first year of adult work, she made only a few videos, including a softcore
V-Cinema movie,
Virgin Teacher Hinako in September 2001. ; Taking off In Spring 2002, Oikawa began an association with the new
KMP Million label, most of them under the direction of
Goro Tameike. She said that Tameike showed her the way to go. Her first video with KMP and Tameike,
Another Side of Nao Oikawa, involved anal sex and forced
fellatio. One of her male partners is famed porn actor
Taka Kato Another Side of Nao Oikawa 2, was even more hardcore with lesbian
strap-on sex, forced fellatio and vomiting, multiple partner fellatio and vibrator play. Once again
Taka Kato takes part in the action.
Actress and TV personality ; TV appearances Like AV idols
Nana Natsume and
Sora Aoi, Oikawa has been able to use her fame in the AV industry to enter mainstream media work. Soon after her retirement from adult videos, she acted in and directed an episode of the Japanese TV horror series
Fantazuma: Cursed House or
Fantazuma: Noroi no yakata (ファンタズマ〜呪いの館〜) which aired on
TV Tokyo in July 2004. She also played a role in the 2004 comedy-horror TV series directed by
Takashi Shimizu on
TV Tokyo. From 2005 to 2006, Oikawa appeared on various midnight TV show including
Ikari Oyaji 3. ; SFX actress On November 11, 2005 Oikawa made a guest appearance in the 6th episode of
GARO. It was her first appearance on
Tokusatsu sfx series.
GARO's action director Makoto Yokoyama says Oikawa's supple body is suitable to sfx action. On November 9, 2007 she made a guest appearance in the 6th episode of Tsuburaya Productions mini-series
Ultraseven X.Oikawa was cast as Negi's advisor "Shizuna Minamoto" in the 2007-08 late-night
TV Tokyo series
Negima!: Magister Negi Magi based on the
manga of the same name about a young male wizard from Wales (Negi, played by a 13-year-old girl) and his 31 female students. releasing both an EP and a CD box set featuring the group's song
G3 Princess Rap ~Pretty Love Limited~ and Oikawa's solo character song
Utopia. She also appeared in the
Kamen Rider Decade epilogue portion of the December 2009 film
Kamen Rider × Kamen Rider W & Decade: Movie War 2010 as the Bee Woman of
Shocker. ; Other activities From November to December 2007 Oikawa performed her first lead stage role in a three-person drama called
Night Mess. In September 2010 she will take a role in a vampire drama called
Blood Prisoner. Some staff members and actors in both dramas are
tokusatsu specialists. Oikawa's family enjoys playing
Mahjong as a recreational activity. As a result, she has over 20 years' experience playing the game. Using this experience, she frequently appears in Mahjong related V-Cinemas, TV shows, and various events. == Filmography ==