Saori Hara Movies and Career Information

Saori Hara (原紗央莉, Hara Saori) is a Japanese AV idol, model and actress who has also used the name Mai Nanami (七海まい, Nanami Mai). Saori Hara was born in Hiroshima Prefecture to a Japanese mother and a father of mixed German-Japanese parentage (his father was German). Hara started her career as a junior idol under the name Mai Nanami. As a teenager, she sang the theme song Spicy Days (スパイシーデイズ, Supaishiideizu) for the animated TV show The Marshmallow Times (マシュマロ通信, Mashumaro Tsūshin) on TV Osaka in 2004. She also had parts in two movies in 2005, the March TV drama The Dream of Delinquent Boys (不良少年の夢, Furyō Shōnen No Yume) for TBS, and the April theatrical release, horse-racing melodrama Lovely Fields (ハルウララ, Haru Urara), which was later released as a DVD. She had also made a bikini-model photobook, Mai Nanami First Photobook, in May 2005 and a non-nude (gravure) DVD titled Mai Nanami: Yamagishi Shin Digital Movie Museum which was released in August 2005. As Nanami, she also played the female lead in another mainstream movie that was due to be released in Japan in 2006 but had its debut at the American Film Market in Santa Monica, California in November 2005 as Deep Sea Monster